Since the advent of the internet, one of the easiest and most convenient ways that Arabic language learners can improve their listening comprehension and expand their vocabulary over time is by listening to audio of Levantine Arabic such as Arabic podcasts on Spotify or Arabic news with transcripts. A plethora of resources such as radio shows and podcasts can be found with a simple search...
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Trying to learn Arabic online or in a formal classroom may not be suitable for everyone. Some people simply don’t have the time or money for formal learning of Arabic, while others may not be comfortable learning in online or classroom type settings and prefer to learn on their own. However, that doesn’t mean trying to learn Arabic language skills is out of the question, and...
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Go to the magazine rack at your local bookshop or newsstand and you’ll see there’s a magazine for just about any topic you can think of. It’s not any different in the Arab world either where you can also find an Arabic magazine for just about everything, which is a good thing if you want to practice and learn how to read Arabic fluently. You see,...
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Despite its name, Islamic art is not the art of a specific religion, nor is it art of a specific time, place, nor of a single medium. What it is, however, is art that covers a period of some 1400 years – art that comes from many lands and peoples, and art that includes architecture, calligraphy, painting, glass, ceramics, and textiles, among others. Islamic art doesn’t...
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By now, you’ve probably heard all of the horror stories about how difficult Arabic is to learn: “Arabic letters look like hieroglyphics.” “There are too many strange sounds. It makes learning to speak it impossible.” “Arabic has an enormous vocabulary; I mean, c’mon! 400 words for a camel, and 200 for a lion?” “Arabic grammar is too complicated.” Indeed, when it comes to learning languages, Arabic gets a bad...
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Among the questions we get asked most frequently at Kaleela are questions like: “Is 1,000 words enough to speak a language?” or “How many foreign words can you learn in a day to speak fluently?” If we gave you an answer, you’d probably ask surprisingly, “It takes how many vocabulary words to be fluent in Arabic?” The truth is, however, because everybody has a different...
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