This week we bring you a lower intermediate lesson to do with smoking, in light of the newly adopted smoking ban in England. We not only teach you Arabic here at ArabicPod, but also aim to keep you up to date with current affairs and hopefully enable you to (somewhat) address the issues in Arabic. Guest host, Rida, takes over from Mohamed Moshaya for this lesson and alongside him we have our usual host Ehab. So what do you listeners think of the recent smoking ban? Feel free to air your views in our forum and if you really want to impress us then why not have a go at doing it in Arabic? Anyway enjoy ...
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Ahmet Metin wrote:
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hi rida!
wow you did a great job. I hope we get to hear from you again.
What is the infinitive of the words dhatakheen and biddayat (banning)- what's 'he smoked' and 'he banned'
Is this mamnoo ___ a fixed format? What about nouns? What 'would be No pets or no mobile phones allowed'. Is mamnoo itself derived from some verb stem or is it just a fixed phrase?
What's the infinitive of undur. Is it nazara (to look)? Then shouldn't it be unzur with a z?
Shokran
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another great lesson...but ehab speak too fast....hhuhuhu
i think i have to adjust
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I noticed one thing... In the audio transcript, you have a vocabulary section where you say that "behind you" is 7’alfak, or حلفك
But in the actual dialogue, you say:
أنظر اللوحة وراك
Un6’ur al-law7a warak.
Look at the board behind you.
I'm guessing that these are two ways of saying "behind you", so perhaps you should add warak to the vocabulary list section here... Personally, I got confused because I have learned warak to mean "paper". Or is that waraq? i.e. perhaps ورق؟
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يبدو ان الشخص في الصورة يدخن شيء و مش سيجارة هههههههه
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And what I mean is that the way the guy is holding the cigarette is wierd
عمل التدخين هو مضر للصحة والمدخن يصبح كريه الرئحة
ولذلك يجب على كل شخص بشمول المضيفين على هذا الموقع الممتاز ان يجتنب من هذا العمل بدون اي تأخير
انجلترا منعت التدخين هذا هو خبر جيد جدا
ولكن متى سنستمع الخبر كذلك من البلاد العربية
آمل واتوقع جوابك الغالي لا على التدخين بل على محاولتي على كتابة في اللغة العربية
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