A bit of Arabic

In this episode, we will go shopping. We will learn how to ask for a price of an item and probably even haggle a bit.

Vocabulary Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/802380184/in-the-market-في-السوق-flash-cards/?x=1qqt

In this episode, you’ll learn to talk about the weather.

To help you practice more of the Weather Vocabulary here is a Quizlet link

In today's episode, you’ll learn to order food in a restaurant. Shahiyya tayyiba - enjoy your meal.

In today’s episode, you’ll be able to order some coffee, perhaps tea in a café or at a restaurant. You will also learn a few common drinks vocabulary.

In this episode, you’ll learn to talk more about your city, or the city you are visiting and learn how to describe a few places in your "medina".

You will be able to use some direction prepositions while talking about various "amakin" 

In this last part I will share a few lines from a beautiful piece of Nizar Qabbani’s great poem “This is my Love .. This is my City.

هــَـــذهِ هــِــى حــَــبــيـــبـــتـــى .. هــَـــذهِ هــِــى مـَــــديـــنــــتـــــى .. 

This is My Love .. This is My City ..

أبــْـــحــَــــثُ عــَــن مــَـــديــــنـــةٍ 

I look for a city

نــَـــكــْـــتــُـــبُ مــَــا شــِــئــْــنـــَـــا عــلــى جــُــدْرَانــَـــهـــَـــــا 

That we write whatever we want on its walls

مــَــديــنــةٌ تــُـــحــَـــرِّضُ الــزِّلــزالَ فــى دَاخــِـــلــِــنـــَــــا 

A city that stirs the earthquake inside us

تــُــدهــِـــشــُــنــا .. تــَــخــُــضــُّــنـــا .. تــُـــقــْــلــِــقـــُـــنـــَــــا 

Surprises us .. frightens us .. worries us

مــَـــديــنـــةٌ لا تــَـــقــْـــمــَـــعُ الــحــُـــبَّ .. و لا الــشــِّــعــْـــرَ 

A city that does not suppress love or poetry

و لا تــَـــقــْـــمــَــعـــَـــنـــَـــا 

 And suppress us not

أبــْـــحــَــــثُ عــَــن شـــَـــوَارِعَ ضــَــيـــَّـــقــَـــةً تــَـــبـــْــلــَـــعـــُـــنـــا 

I search for narrow streets that swallow us

عــن مــَــرْكــِــبٍ مــُــغــَـــامــِـــرٍ 

(I search) for an adventurous boat

يــَـــأخــُـــذنـــَــــا لــَـــيـــْــــلاً .. و لا يــُـــرْجــِـــعــُـــنـــَــــا 

That takes us at night and never gets us back

 أخــْـــتـــَـــارُ مــَــنــْــــفـــَـــاى كــَــمــَـــا يــُــعــْـــجــِــبــُــنــِـــى 

I choose my exile as I like

و أصــْـــنــَـــعُ الــزَمــَـــانَ و الــمــَــكــَــانَ 

And create the time and place

أخــْــتــَـــارُ دَوْمــَـــاً جــَـــانــِـــبَ الــقــَـــصـــِــيـــدة 

Always choose the side of the poem

و جـــَـــانــِـــبَ الإنـــْــــســـَــــان 

And the side of man

أبــْــحــَـــثُ عـــن زاويــةٍ صــَــغــيــرة فــى مــَــطــْـــعـــَـــم 

I look for a small angle in a restaurant

تــُـــصـــْـــغــِـــى إلــى حــِــوَارِنــَــا 

That listens to our conversation

In this episode, you’ll learn about Al-madina - the city. You will also learn how to ask for directions, to ask where places in the city are, and understand the words “where”, “here” and “there”

Cope with learning a language difficulties & Talk about how many languages you speak - I speak (Atahaddath)

I WANT (Ureedo) and I WOULD (Awaddu) like to learn

In this lesson you will learn various adjectives to be able to express feelings and emotions

In this episode, you’ll learn how to express your likes and dislikes in Arabic.

Link to hobbies and leisure activities vocabulary 

In this lesson you will learn how to talk about jobs and occupations as well as hobbies and interests.

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