Let’s Get to Work: Arabic Vocabulary for Business
Are you traveling to the Middle East for business? Well, whether you’re visiting Dubai, Amman, or Cairo, wherever you land in the Arab world, it’s good to know a few words or phrases in the local language. That’s why we put together these “must know” Arabic words and phrases every business traveler should learn before […]
Arabic for Life: At the Airport (Part 3)
Welcome back to our series Arabic for Life. In Part 3 we finish our lesson on Arabic you can use at the airport by showing you how to form basic interrogative questions. Of course, when you arrive at the airport, you’ll not only have lots of questions but you’ll also be asked a lot of […]
Emphatic letters in Arabic
مَرحبًا بِكُم مَرّةً أُخرى/marHaban bikum marratan ʼukhraa/Hello and welcome back. Today is the final part of our lesson in our Arabic for Life blog series on the Arabic essentials. If you’ve missed the first two parts, then be sure to check out our blog so you don’t miss out on the essentials of Arabic we’ve […]
Arabic for Life: Arabic Essentials (Part 2)
مَرحَبًا بِعودَتِك/ marHaban biʻawdatik/ Welcome back! . In Part 1, we launched our new blog series we call Arabic for Life. The series is designed to teach you the basics of Arabic that you can use as you go about your daily life in the Middle East. We started the series on the essentials of Arabic […]
Arabic for Life: Arabic Essentials (Part 1)
أَهلًا وَسَهلًا!/ʼahlan wa sahlan/ Hello and Welcome! Today, we’re excited to launch our new blog series we call Arabic for Life. The series is designed to teach you the basics of Arabic that you can use as you go about your daily life in the Middle East. So, whether it’s taking a taxi to your […]
Definite articles in Arabic: hamzatu ilqaTʻ and hamzatu ilwaSl
/’ahlan/ أَهلًا welcome our lesson on Definite Article in our Arabic grammar series. In Part 3 of last week’s lesson on directions, we learned about the definite article in Arabic; however, we thought we needed to explain a little more about another aspect of the definite article that warranted a lesson all its own. It’s […]
Home Quest in Arabic: Mastering Apartment Hunting
/ʼahlan wa sahlan/ أَهلًا وَ سَهلًاand welcome to Part 2 of our apartment hunting lesson in our Arabic for Life series. Today we’re going to take that vocabulary you learned in Part 1 and put it all together in a dialogue that features a couple looking for an apartment. So, let’s get right to it […]
Arabic Essentials for Apartment Hunting
marHaban and welcome to this week’s lesson in our Arabic for Life Series on apartment hunting. In this lesson, you’ll learn a lot of vocabulary associated with living spaces and, of course, practical vocabulary and expressions used by anyone looking for a new place to live in the Arab world. In Part 2, you’ll read […]
Arabic Navigational Skills: Seeking Directions in Life
/ʼahlan wa sahlan/ أَهلًا وَسَهلًا Hello and Welcome back to Part 3 of our Arabic for Life lesson on asking for directions. Quite often when you’re giving directions in English, you’ll say something along the lines of “go past the library”, “take the next right”, or “it’s the last house on the left”? However, have […]
Finding Your Way: Key Arabic Phrases for Directions
Today in Part 2 of our Arabic for Life lesson on asking for directions, you’ll read a dialogue about Ahmed who’s trying to find his way to the center of Cairo. You’ll also read a dialogue about Farah and Laith who are trying to find a place to park in a strange town. Dialogue 1: […]