Language Learning

فِي غَابَةِ الشَّيَطَانِ This Arabic story is for learners of Arabic as an additional language. We took it from a book written by Kamil Keilany, an Egyptian writer and a poet. The original text was written for native speakers of Arabic. To make it suitable for learners of Arabic as an additional language, we have abridged it, rephrased it in an elegant, flowing, and less compl…

حِذَاءُ الْبَخِيلِ This Arabic story is for learners of Arabic as an additional language. We took it from a book written by Kamil Keilany, an Egyptian writer and a poet. The original text was written for native speakers of Arabic. To make it suitable for learners of Arabic as an additional language, we have abridged it, rephrased it in an elegant, flowing, and less complicated…

الشَّيْخُ الْهِنْدِيُّ This Arabic story is for learners of Arabic as an additional language. We took it from a book written by Kamil Keilany, an Egyptian writer and a poet. The original text was written for native speakers of Arabic. To make it suitable for learners of Arabic as an additional language, we have abridged it, rephrased it in an elegant, flowing, and less complic…

What is taa marbuta? What is taa marbuta? taa marbuta is the taa that always occurs at the end of certain nouns and adjectives. If connected to the preceding letter, it is written like this ـة, as in سَاعَة ‘watch’, فَاطِمَة ‘Fatima (name)’, and خَيْمَة ‘tent.’ If it occurs after one of the letters that do not connect to the following letter (i.e. ا, د, ذ, ر, ز,و) , it is writ…

The Basic Arabic Nominal Sentence The basic Arabic nominal sentence is الْجُمْلَةُ الْاِسْمِيَّةُ الْبَسِيطَة. It consists of two parts: the subject (also called topic)  الْمُبْتَدَأ and the predicate الْخَبَر. The subject, which the sentence starts with, is  almost always a definite (مَعْرِفَة) noun, such as الْبَيْت  ‘the house’, الرَّجُل ‘the man’, الْجَامِعَة ‘the universi…

Connecting Arabic Letters (2)  Connecting Arabic letters is the focus of this lesson, namely the last thirteen letters of the alphabet. In the previous lesson, you came to know how the first seventeen Arabic letters connect to other letters. You also learned that there are six letters that never join to letters that follow them. We call these letters semi-connecting letters, a…