الْحَيَّةُ الْبَيْضَاءُ This story has been taken from Brothers Grimm’s Folk Tale Collections. To make it more interesting, we have elaborated upon it in order to depict the hero’s emotions  and give it more meaning and humanity. For every behavior of his, we gave a reason to rid the story of ambiguity and simplicity that is common in folktales. The story is meant for learners…

بَطـــَــلُ أَثِينـــَــا This is an Arabic short story for foreigners / for non-Arabs. It is taken from a series of long stories which Kamil Kilani wrote. The original text is in more advanced Arabic. This version has been abridged and simplified to be suitable for learners of Arabic as a foreign language.  قَبْلَ آلَافِ السِّنِينِ، وُلِدَ بَطَلُ أَثِينَا. عَاشَ بَطَلُ أَث…

التَّاجِرُ مَرْمَرُ 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 complicate…

َالْأَمِيرُ الْحَادِي وَالْخَمْسُون This is an Arabic short story for beginners, namely for non-Arabs. It is taken from a series of long stories which Kamil Kilani wrote. The original text is in more advanced Arabic. This Arabic short story for beginners has been abridged and simplified to be suitable for learners of Arabic as a foreign language. فِي قَدِيمِ الزَّمَانِ، كَا…

الْأَمِيــــرَةُ الْقَاسِيــَــةُ This is an Arabic short story for foreigners / for non-Arabs. It is taken from a series of long stories which Kamil Kilani wrote. The original text is in more advanced Arabic. This version has been abridged and simplified to be suitable for learners of Arabic as a foreign language. فِي مَمْلَكَةٍ هِنْدِيَّةٍ قَدِيمَةٍ، عَاشَ أَمِيرٌ صَغِيرٌ…

الفلَّاحُ الْمَظْلُومُ This is an Arabic short story for beginners, namely for non-Arabs. It is taken from a book entitled The Legends of Nations. This book is written by Quadri Qualaji. The original text is in more advanced Arabic. This Arabic short story for beginners has been abridged and simplified to be suitable for learners of Arabic as a foreign language. فِي أَحَدِ …

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (41) Read the Story أُغْنِيَةُ الْعَظْمَةِ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (40) Read the Story الْحَيَّةُ الْبَيْضَاءُ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (39) Read the Story التَّاجِرُ مَرْمَرُ and answer the following questions.

Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (38) Read the Story الشَّيْخُ الْهِنْدِيُّ and answer the following questions.

Attached pronouns in Arabic are the pronouns that we attach to verbs, nouns, prepositions, or particles. Generally speaking, pronouns in Arabic are separate, attached, or implicit (i.e. implied or not overt). The separate pronouns  in Arabic are similar to the subject pronouns found in most world languages in addition to the dual and feminine forms that exist in Arabic. As for …

Arabic is a right-to-left cursive language. This short e-book "Ibnulyemen Arabic Alphabet and Cursive Writing" typographically shows how the Arabic letters are connected to to form words. There are twenty-eight letters in Arabic. Each letter has four shapes: at the beginning of the word, in the middle of the word, at the end of the word, and in isolation. This, as a result, see…

This is a short e-book of eleven short stories written in simplified Arabic. The original versions of these stories were written by Kamel Kilani and Mohammed Al-Abrashi, both Egyptian writers. They are fairly long and meant for native speakers of Arabic. The wording and structures of these stories have been tweaked and simplified to make them suitable for (advanced) beginner le…

Attached pronouns in Arabic are pronominal suffixes; for each separate pronoun there is a corresponding attached pronoun. These pronominal suffixes are are attached to nouns, prepositions, and verbs. With nouns, they function as possessive pronouns. With preposition, they function as object of prepositions. With verbs, they function as either subjects or objects.  In the table …