January 22nd, 2008 14 comments
Anybody feeling sleepy? Well, wake up; it's time for another Arabic podcast! We have a beginner lesson for you and it's all about getting out of bed; everybody's favourite time of the morning! Whether that blasted alarm is deafening you with its raucous ring or (for the young among you) your mother is shouting down your ear. This lesson will teach you how to tell that mother of yours to leave you alone. But we warn you, watch out, she's definitely not one to mess with if she's anything like the mum in this dialogue!

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14 Comments
Leila says
Tue 22nd Jan 08@01:33 pm

Nice to hear a different dialect and accent being spoken, thanks for that
hamidkhan says
Thu 24th Jan 08@09:52 am

يا بنتي استيقظي من النوم
تجب ان تحضري المدرسة
تجب أن تذهبي إلى المدرسة
أتركيني يا أمي أنا لا أرغب أن أذهب إلى المدرسة
انهضي من فراشك أو سأصب الماء عليك
آه! كم أكره المدرسة
عبد الحميد خان من مومباي
sarasota says
Thu 24th Jan 08@04:33 pm

SHUKRAN!
Guys than you veru much for your lessons!
1. It is fun to learn a language like that.
2. You provide modern conversational vocabulary and idioms.
3. It is interactive.
4. Videos are the killer that distingushes your site.

BTW I cant leave comments on your video. grrr
Moshaya says
Thu 24th Jan 08@07:16 pm

Thanks Sarasota for your comments and for letting us know that there was a bug with adding comments to the video podcasts. that has been fixed now. No wonder there weren't any comments on them tongue laugh
moeh says
Thu 24th Jan 08@09:10 pm

nice keep up the good work brothers cool hmm
jamil says
Sat 2nd Feb 08@02:27 am

Hello!
I thank u very for helping me to learn this interesting language which is the language of my religion.I appreciate your way of teaching because you teach us both standard and local arabic, so that we can anderstand every body.Before,I only learnt standard arabic and I couldn't anderstand everyboby but now I can a little.I have a question:mathabika is it the samething with ech fika anta
Thank u very much
jamil says
Sat 2nd Feb 08@04:06 am

واشكركم شكراجزيرا،لمسعادتكم في السحول التعليم اللغة العربية بطريق الانترنيت.أرجوان تعلمن بعض اللحجات
Moshaya says
Sun 3rd Feb 08@11:52 am

Hi Jamil, Thanks for your comments. Mathabika does mean the same thing as ech fika anta. However, "ech fika enta" is not the correct way of saying it. Mathabika or Mad'abika is more correct.
Ehab says
Mon 4th Feb 08@08:49 am

Jamil,
Just to highlight the difference between letter ح(7) and ها (h),, you wrote اللحجات which is suppose to be اللهجات , I’ve notices so many people do this mistake. Be aware of it,, have you seen the APG in the sharepoint, it helps you to hear each letter clearly and differentiate them.
Bettawfeeq.
abid says
Tue 4th Mar 08@05:26 pm

I find the lessons to be an excellent way of teaching.I look forward to using this site more and more.Thankyou.
yashoa says
Wed 19th Mar 08@08:01 am

HeLLoOo Every One. Nice Place To learn Arabic and Demonstrate urself how much Arabic People Influenced in you and than good way to produce such a culture where we can rejoice our thoughts and tongues among the people where we'r living. Specially youth who are visualizing on being Holy. Plaesure to be here !
first1pass says
Fri 26th Dec 08@08:19 pm

I like the way you teach, but I don't understamd why you would put "ma" before "akub almayy 3alayky". Wouldn't it then mean: I not chuck water on you. So that the whole thing would read "Get up before I not chuck water on you." If so, please help me to understand why you would say it like this. Thanks confused
Ehab says
Sat 27th Dec 08@09:59 pm

Very good question .. First, (maa) here is not the (negation maa), it is a linking word came here because of (qabl). To put the rule clearly,(qabl : before) and (ba3d : after), both need a linking word after it if they are followed by a verb. You can't say (qabl akub almay), so you need a linking tool, and here it can be either (maa) or (an). So you can say (qabl maa akub almay) or (qabl an akub almay).
In Arabic, there are few words that need such linking tool after it if they are followed by verbs, like (ureed : I want), (asta6ee3:I can)...
Hope that is clear now.
first1pass says
Sun 28th Dec 08@02:23 am

Thank-you, Ehab. I didn't think that I would get a reply that fast. Thank-you. Yes, I understand now. smile
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