Childhood is a particularly important time for learning and there are many benefits to teaching your child another language. Studies conducted by Harvard determined that children who are bilingual are more creative, more flexible, more engaged in problem solving, and score better on tests. With that in mind, if you’re trying to figure out which language to add to your child’s repertoire, why not try...
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Many of us can’t wait until summer. We sit around the fireplace or gas stove bundled up all winter making plans for the day when summertime finally arrives because, as American author, journalist and essayist Charles Bowden once said: “Summertime is always the best of what might be.” Some plan to go on summer holiday, while others may choose to stay at home and take advantage of the extra daylight...
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Determination. Check Love for Arabic. Check Find good dictionary… Houston, we have a problem. A dictionary is everything when it comes to language learning, but how do you find the right one? Looking up all these online dictionaries and sites is not helping with the decision-making process. And with an Arabic to Arabic dictionary, it feels like you studying the word and its meaning at the same time!...
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Tips, hints, hacks or tricks – whatever you call them, you asked for the best way to learn Arabic easier and faster, so without mincing words, here are 10 ways you can do just that: Fun with Phonics If you are learning Arabic for beginners, you might ask yourself, “Where do I start?” Well, the answer to that question is easy – start where you would start with...
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“One of the best ways to learn anything is to teach yourself.”- U.S. Appeals Court Judge Giles Rich If you’re reading this right now, maybe you’ve decided to learn Arabic on your own. Maybe you don’t have enough time to learn Arabic online or in a formal classroom environment. Maybe you live too far away from the nearest academic institution or learning center and have decided...
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It’s 2005 and I’ve landed a job as a language instructor in Amman, Jordan, at a prestigious Arab-American language learning academy. As soon as they told me I had the position and hung up the phone, I start thinking to myself that I should probably learn to speak Arabic a little before I leave America. After all, I’d be there for a year and would probably want to go out and...
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Learning a new language is both exciting and frightening at the same time, but that hasn’t stopped many new language learners from learning Arabic. After all, Arabic has been gaining more popularity lately, as the Arab world is a fast growing market for trade in both goods and services, not to mention how vast and rich the Arab culture is. The Arabic language is, indeed,...
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Pronouns are incredibly elementary. They are simply the I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they, and other variations we are all familiar with. We learn how to use these at a young age in school as a required grammar lesson, and, although grammar on its own is exceptionally important, pronouns are also drastically important when it comes to identification communication. Learning to correctly apply pronouns...
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Surely everyone remembers their early school days when their teacher would give a class about body parts and follow it up with exercises to identify them. Well, since most people start to learn Arabic by memorizing various words to enhance their vocabulary as much as possible, we decided that that day is here again, only in Arabic with an article dedicated to body parts in...
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As we mentioned in a previous article (link), the Arabic language is pretty unique and diverse, and it makes sense to want to learn it since so many people across the globe speak it. This is supported by the fact that, in recent years, we can see a rise in interest in the language – students everywhere are making an effort to learn Arabic! To continue...
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