Sunday, April 18, 2010

Digital Library


This site is retrieved from the International Children's Digital Library (ICLD). The ICDL Foundation's goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community.
This digital library will help learners develop their vocabulary and ultimately gain fluency reading comprehension.

Digital Library <-- (click here)

http://mybook.bibalex.org/

Arabic vocabulary lists


This site is designed by Luka Cvrk and it represents a useful resources to help users learn both standard Arabic and the Egyptian dialect. The vocabulary lists include standard Arabic, the Egyptian (Cairene) dialect, and transliterations. You'll also find pages devoted to colloquial idiomatic expressions, proverbs, and sayings.

Arabic vocabulary lists <-- (click here)

http://arabic.desert-sky.net/vocab.html

Word-of-the-day


A year long beginners Arabic program starting Jan 1, 2010 presented by Micheal in a word-of-the-day down-loadable Calendar format.
Each post is presented as a "Letter-of-the-day" calendar page that you can print and hang on your wall. right-click on the calendar page and "save as..." to download and print each day's lesson. Not only are they great conversation pieces and learning tools, they're also great looking and facilitate the learning of the Arabic vocabulary.

Word-of-the-day <-- (click here)


http://arabicspeaker.blogspot.com/

Introduction to Arabic Dialect


After learning the basic Modern Standard Arabic vocabulary, it is not unwise to introduce students to one of the Arabic dialects to compare and notice the different vocabulary and sentence structure. This is a Moroccan dialect, spoken Arabic in "north west Africa".

SpeakMoroccan is dedicated to people willing to learn the Moroccan dialect: “Darija“. No Arabic knowledge is required to study the lessons on this website.

SpeakMoroccan helps you learn some basic expressions needed on a daily basis, as well as some easy grammar tips [check lessons and vocabulary lists]. So whether you’re going to Morocco for holidays, a business trip, or just intending to impress your Moroccan friends, our website is what you are looking for!

To browse this website, you are invited to start by reading the general indications carefully, to get a better insight on the transliteration system we adopted. As for those of you who are familiar with the Arabic script, it’s also integrated to the lessons.

Introduction to Arabic Dialect <-- (click here)


http://www.speakmoroccan.com/

Vocabulary/ Flashcards


This is a great source from Madinah site that contains a creative activities related to vocabulary and flashcards. This will help students to retain an important deal of words in Arabic in different categories.

Vocabulary & Flashcard <-- (click here)

http://www.madinaharabic.com/Vocabulary/General/html/

Vocabulary and Phrases


MadinahArabic.com was set up over 8 years ago with a simple goal, to introduce a website that would teach Arabic for free.

The main goal is to help both Muslims and those who are not Muslim to learn the Arabic language. It is recognized that the objectives of both groups are different but have specifically catered for the general language requirements with some Islamic aspects integrated into the lessons to facilitate Muslims and to help inform those who are not Muslim about Islam which has a close nexus to the Arabic language.


Vocab & Phrases <-- (click here)
http://www.madinaharabic.com/start_learning.html

Rules of transliteration


Transliteration is the technique that changes Arabic writing into a Latin substitute. Since there are many letters in Arabic which have no Latin equivalent, either the combination of two letters, or special qualities are added to normal Latin letters.
To the newcomer to Arabic, the transliterations can appear confusing, but it is an excellent system of both recapturing Arabic writing, as well as helping with your pronunciation.
Moreover, you should note that the pronunciation of normal letters is not necessarily identical to how you utter things in your own language. Therefore, this site is very helpful to clarify the rules of transliteration.

Rules of transliteration <-- (click here)
http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/001.htm