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Arabic Diacritics (1)

Arabic Diacritics (1) Arabic diacritics are vocal letters, i.e. marks, signs, or symbols. Put differently, they are not written letters. Therefore, Arabic letters indicate consonants and long vowels only. Linguistically, vocal letters do not exist in many world languages. In such languages, the vocal letters are part of the alphabetic system. That is, they are the vowel letter…

Transliteration of Arabic Letters

Transliteration of Arabic Letters Translation of Arabic letters is not recommended. However, in the initial stages of learning, using transliteration is inevitable and sometime useful. It facilitates transition from the pure beginner stage to the upper-beginner stage; plus, it speeds up learning. This lesson presents the actual pronunciation of Arabic sounds in English sounds,…

Yemeni Music: A Taste of It

Yemeni music is mostly oud-based. This post gives a taste of Yemeni and Arabic oud music. العُوْد ‘the oud’ is a musical instrument used in the Middle East and North Africa. Its name was derived from the Arabic word عُوْد ‘a piece of wood’ as it is made of wood. Although it is an ancient instrument, it is still very popular in many countries. In Yemen, a piece of music wi…

Modern Religious Ideologies in the Arab World

Modern Religious Ideologies in the Arab World What are modern religious ideologies in the Arab World? Most Arabs define being an Arab as one who speaks Arabic and views the history of Arabs as an integral part of his/her cultural identity. Arabs are predominantly Muslims, but they have different religious ideologies. This difference is primarily due to power struggle which led…

Yemen’s National Dish: Saltah سَلْتَة

Yemen's National Dish: Saltah سَلْتَة What is Yemen's National Dish? There many popular dishes in Yemen such as Bint as-sahn بِنْت الصَّحْن , sousi سُوسِي , and shafoot / shafout شَفُوت. However, saltah سَلْتَه is the national dish of Yemen. These dishes are peculiar to Yemeni cuisine. While the former three are popular on special days and occasions, people in Yemen eat saltah…

Arabic Alphabet (2)

Arabic Alphabet (2)  The Arabic alphabet and long vowels are the focus of this lesson. In previous lesson, you learned the Arabic letters and their pronunciation which varies according to the short vowels (al-ħarakaat al-qaSiirah, الْحَرَكَاتُ الْقَصِيرَة) that accompany them. For example, we pronounce the letter ل as لَ la, لِ, li, or لُ lu. What if long vowels follow the let…
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Arabic Reading Comprehension Test (40)

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

Easy Arabic News Questions (33)

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)

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

Easy Arabic News Questions (31)

Easy Arabic News Questions (31) Read the article اِتِّفَاقُ دَمْجِ قَسَدَ بِالدَّوْلَةِ السُّورِيَّةِ الْجَدِيدَةِ and answer the following questions.

Latest E-books & Handouts

Ibnulyemen Arabic Attached Pronouns

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 …

Ibnulyemen Arabic Alphabet and Cursive Writing

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…

Ibnulyemen Arabic Short Stories for Non-natives

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

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 …