Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 29, 2008
Basic Arabic Workbook: For Revision and Practice by John Mace
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 29, 2008
Using Arabic: A Guide to Contemporary Usage by Mahdi Alosh
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 25, 2008
The following is a collection of 10 musical/non-musical educational videos intended to teach the Arabic alphabet.
Alphabet songs are songs used to teach children the alphabet, used in kindergartens, pre-schools and homes around the world.
Learning the alphabet from fun educational children videos is very efficient. Through fun songs, animal pictures and other attention-grabbing sounds and visuals, these entertaining and educational videos you will memorise the alphabet sounds and letters quickly.
They are very fun to watch and they suit any individual learning style.
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 15, 2008
FedEx Corporation is a leading logistics services company, based in the United States. FedEx is a syllabic abbreviation of the company’s original name, Federal Express.
The following images taken in Dubai show the FedEx logo (FedEx Express) written in Arabic/English.
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on April 2, 2008
Source of Realia
Image: © Homer Sykes/Corbis
Photographer: Homer Sykes
Date Photographed: July 1, 2007
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 18, 2008
BBC Arabic (Learning English) has a dedicated bilingual radio programme aimed at teaching English to native Arab speakers. As an Arabic learner yourself, you may benefit hugely from listening to this interactive programme where the host (an Arabic speaker) interviews a guest (an English speaker) in English about a particular news item. The interview is then interpreted in Arabic immediately by the host.
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 11, 2008
BBC Arabic (Learning English) has a dedicated bilingual radio programme aimed at teaching English to native Arab speakers. As an Arabic learner yourself, you may benefit hugely from listening to this interactive programme where the host (an Arabic speaker) interviews a guest (an English speaker) in English about a particular news item. The interview is then interpreted in Arabic immediately by the host.
This is the latest BBC bilingual radio programme for learning English. It is hosted by Mr. Louay Ismail, the BBC producer who came to interview us here at CASAW, University of Edinburgh last Tuesday 4th Mar. 2008
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on March 1, 2008
Adjectives:
Video Realia 2 :
Key Vocabulary:
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on February 4, 2008
Masculine Plural
In Arabic there are certain rules to follow when forming masculine plural.
Fortunately, you have ArabicPod to help explain these rules and make it simpler.
It’s not as easy as changing mu3alim (teacher) to mu3alims, but it’s not difficult either.
If you’re at an intermediate level then join the discussion.
Listen to the podcast - Masculine Plural (Arabic Pod)
Feminine Plural
In this intermediate lesson we teach you how to form feminine plural.
There is a lot of grammar in this lesson and we teach you the rules to follow when changing singular feminine to plural feminine, so tune in and learn how to make Sayara (car) plural.
Listen to the podcast - Feminine Plural (Arabic Pod)
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on January 31, 2008
Audacity is a free, open source software for recording and editing sounds including steaming audio from online Arabic Radio and TV stations.
If you are learning Arabic, try recording yourself on digital-audio format to develop your fluency, then share it with your tutor and classmates .
For instance:
To convert your audio files into MP3 format, you need to download an MP3 encoding software
To learn how to use Audacity, watch the following tutorial:
Download Audacity
Download MP3 encoding software
Watch this tutorial
Audio Recorder for Free 9.4
Audio Recorder for Free is real-time, sound-recording software that lets you record any sound from your sound card and save the recording directly to MP3, WMA, or WAV files. It supports input from a microphone, streaming audio from the Internet, and audio from external input devices (CDs, LPs, audio cassettes, phone lines), as well as audio from other applications, such as Winamp and Media Player. With a built-in, advanced, audio-recording engine, the recorder produces high-quality recordings. With predefined recording qualities, you can set and manage recording parameters.
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Download Audio Recorder dor Free 9.4
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Posted by Mourad Diouri on January 28, 2008
What do you say when you sneeze? What do you say when you are invited to someone’s house?
In this podcast, you will learn some of those important Arabic expressions that are used culturally which will definitely impress your Arab friends and might save you from embarrassing situations.
Listen to the podcast
Read the PDF transcript
Source of Podcast :
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