by Arabic Online | Jan 27, 2018 | Arabic Language, Culture |
The root j – m – l In the Arabic language the root j – m – l conveys the idea of beauty. Here are the English equivalents for these words. jameel (m) جميل beautiful (masc.) jameela (w) جميلة beautiful (fem.) jameela جميلة first name for...
by Arabic Online | Jan 19, 2018 | Arabic Language |
Here are some Arabic words which have entered the English language directly or indirectly via another language. If you don’t know them already, this is an easy way to increase your Arabic vocabulary. You might be surprised that many of these common words come...
by Arabic Online | Dec 26, 2017 | Arabic Language |
The verb ‘be’ (present, singular) If you look carefully at these sentences, you will see there are English equivalents for each word, except for am, are and is (forms of the verb be). ana min fransa. I’m from France. min ayna anta? Where are you (= male)...
by Arabic Online | Nov 26, 2017 | Arabic Language |
Writing Arabic is much easier than you would imagine. Arabic uses an alphabet, not hieroglyphs or pictograms. And there are far fewer shapes to master in Arabic than in those languages that are based on the ‘Latin alphabet’. These distinguish, for example, between...
by Arabic Online | Aug 22, 2017 | Arabic Language |
As any learner of Arabic will know, Arabic words can be deciphered according to their root (often a three letter combination). It is a fascinating exercise to look up words to discover their true meaning. To illustrate an example of etymology using the English...
by Arabic Online | Aug 22, 2017 | Arabic Language |
In a recent article in ‘Debates in Modern Languages Education’, Robert Vanderplank talks about the issues of listening and understanding in foreign languages. Often listening is singled out as one of the most difficult aspects of language learning and often claimed by...
