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…

مُوْ صَلَاح .. كَبِيْر هَذَا العَالَم نَشَرَتْ مَجَلَّةُ "فِرَانْس فُوتْبُول" خَبَرًا عَنْ اللَّاعِبِ المِصْرِي مُحَمَّد صَلَاح. وَصَفَتِ المَجْلَة مُحَمَّد صَلَاح بِأَنَّهُ "كَبِيْر هَذَا العَالم." وَتَوَقَّعَتِ المَجِلَّة أَنْ  يَكُوْنَ مُحَمَّد صَلَاح نَجْمُ بُطُوْلَة كَأْس أُمَم إِفْرِيقِيَا 2019. بُطُوْلَةُ كَاْسِ أُمَم إِفْرِيقِيَا تَجْرِي مَرَّة كُلَّ عَامِيْن. ه…

الحُوْثِيُّونُ يَضْرِبُونَ مَطَارَ أَبْهَا قَالَ الحُوْثِيُّون، الَّذِيْنَ يُسَمُّونَ أَنْفُسَهُم أَنْصَارَ الله، إِنَّهُم ضَرَبُوا مَطَارَ أَبْهَا فَجْرَ اليَوْم الإِثْنَيْن، 17 من يُونِيْو 2019. وَيَقَعُ مَطَارُ أَبْهَا فِي مِدِيْنَة أَبْهَا، عَاصِمَة مَنْطِقَة عَسِيْر. وَتَقَعُ عَسِيْر جَنُوبَ المَمْلَكَة العَرَبِيَّة السُّعُوْدِيَّة، عَلَى الحُدُوْدِ اليَمَنِيَّة. و…

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

Easy Arabic News Questions (33) Read the article تِرَمْبُ يُعْلِنُ أَنَّ إِيْرَانَ سَوْفَ تَتَحَمَّلُ مَسْؤُولِيَّةَ هُجُومِ الْحُوثِيِّينَ and answer the following questions.

Easy Arabic News Questions (32) Read the article أُوكْرَانِيَا تُوَافِقُ عَلَى اِقْتِرَاحِ الْهُدْنَةِ and answer the following questions.

Easy Arabic News Questions (31) Read the article اِتِّفَاقُ دَمْجِ قَسَدَ بِالدَّوْلَةِ السُّورِيَّةِ الْجَدِيدَةِ 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 …