الْبَيْتُ الْمَسْكُونُ
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. مَاتَ فِي م…
ثَوْبُ الأَذْكِيَاءِ
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 قَدِيمِ ا…
What is shadda?
What is shadda (شَدَّة)? shadda (also spelled shaddah) is a diacritical mark that is indicated by the mark ( ـّ ). It means the doubling of a consonant. In other words, the consonant over which it is placed is to be sounded/uttered twice without inserting a short vowel (i.e. fatha ـَ , kasra ـِ , or dhamma ـُ ), in between. So, instead of writing the same c…
Silent alif al-wasl
Silent alif al-wasl أَلِفُ الْوَصْلِ is the conjunctive/connective alif that we do not pronounced in connected speech. When we speak, it is common that we assimilate, drop, or blend certain letters. In English, for example, we pronounce the phrase does she as dushee in connected speech. In Arabic, the most common assimilation and dropping occur with the ali…
الْأَسْئِلَــــةُ الثَّلَاثَــــةُ
We took this Arabic short story from a book written by Mohammed Al-Abrashi. The original story was written for native speakers of Arabic. It has been simplified, abridged, and slightly modified to make it suitable for learners of Arabic as an additional/foreign language. It is suitable for high-beginners and pre-intermediate learners. كَان…