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Comment on January 2012 Trip to Death Valley, Bristlecone Pine Forest, and Alabama Hills (29 photos) by Russell

Russell — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:51:29 +0000

Great photos Linda! You’re living right, I see. So when do I get to check your eyes again, now that you’re back in the US?…

Comment on Media Arabic – June 19 Al Jazeera News with Transcript by Nandakumar

Nandakumar — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 02:51:27 +0000

Greetings from Chennai – India

This is Nandan from Chennai, a 46 years old man hailing from the south Indian state of Kerala, currently working with a TAMIL daily newspaper published from Chennai..

I am learning spoken Arabic these days, with a view to be an interpreter to help patients coming from the middle east … a job for me and a help for the needy !

Thanks for the video – transcript.. it helps me a lot to understand the dialect

Thank you

hope to hear from you soon

Comment on Photos from Guatemala by Terran Wu

Terran Wu — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:17:14 +0000

Hi Linda, thanks for coordinating all the email address for the class. I enjoy being at your site, beautiful pictures!
Terran

Comment on Photos from Guatemala by Yu Jian Kwan

Yu Jian Kwan — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:12:51 +0000

LOVE THE PICTURES~!!!
I love the river~!!!

Comment on Photos from Guatemala by أزهار

أزهار — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:22:09 +0000

لا يهمّ كم من الصّور رأيتُ في حياتي ، ولكنّ الأهمّ أن الصّور التي تلتقطينها هي الأروع.

Comment on Learning Arabic for Beginners – Myths and Misconceptions by thom

thom — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:26:40 +0000

Thank you so much for the parallel scripts to accompany the audio. This is just what I was looking for, and I shall be using your site from now on for all my Arabic learning. Thank you.

Comment on وسائل الإعلام: خبر من قناة الجزيرة – 26 مايو 2010م by urdun

urdun — Mon, 30 May 2011 11:45:38 +0000

اشكرك كثيرا لهذا الموقع هل يوجد اكثر؟

Comment on Learning Arabic for Beginners – Myths and Misconceptions by Linda

Linda — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:42:31 +0000

Hi K,

Thanks for visiting my website.

Here is an example of one form of “human plurals” that you can more or less figure out once you know the rules:

Masculine nouns or adjectives that take the form: فَعیل have two basic plural forms: فُعلاء أو أفِعّاء

If the second and forth letters are different, the plural is most likely فُعلاء :
وزير ج وُزَراء
وكيل ج وُكَلاء
سفير ج سُفَراء
رئيس ج رُؤَساء
خبير ج خُبَراء
خليفة ج خُلَفاء

If the second and forth letters are the same, put them back together in the plural أفِعّاء . When used as adjectives, 70% of the words in this category also take the form: أفِعّة :
عزيز ج أعِزّاء أو أعزّة
شقيق ج أشِقّاء أو أشِقّة
حبيب ج أحِبّاء أو أحِبّة
طبيب ج أطِبّاء

Exceptions:
صديق ج أصدقاء
حفيد ج أحفاد
رفيق ج رفاق
يتيم ج أيتام
رضيع رُضّع
رهينة ج رهائن
زبون ج زبائن
مريض ج مرضى
جريح ج جرحى
قتيل ج قتلى

Comment on Learning Arabic for Beginners – Myths and Misconceptions by K

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 22:22:10 +0000

A good Arabic teacher, native or not, should be able to give you rules that cover 90% of the broken plurals, and you will just have to memorize the remaining 10%.

I’m intrigued could you elaborate on this?

Thanks!

Comment on Media Arabic – June 19 Al Jazeera News with Transcript by Linda

Linda — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:12:42 +0000

@Ali, thanks for stopping by. How is life down under? I agree with you, the sentence would’ve been better without الصياد.