5 tips to improve Arabic reading this summer
1. Visit your local library If you live in a country that is multicultural, you are bound to find Arabic Storybooks in the library. A considerable collection or a tiny corner, doesn’t matter! All you need is a few books to
Remembering the path
The daily hustle puts the focus on today, tomorrow, and the yet-to-be. While dreaming and envisioning the future of our non-native Arabic-speaking community is an exciting and fruitful endeavor, every once in a while (precisely so before a launch), when
My Journey Learning Arabic!
Let us hear from people outside the UAE, how they have managed to traverse through different courses and life experiences to learn what they have learnt. Our today's blog post is about a young mom in Singapore. As you read
Arabically; The beginning
My fascination with Arabic has been a lifelong process. The more I read the more I want to learn, the more I learn the more I want to understand it. The process of learning, creating, and teaching did not stop
Are you a Gulf Kid?
People outside the UAE often view Arabic as an important language for those within the Emirates. Yet the way expats within the UAE relate Arabic to life experiences varies. In our September Blog series, Arabically brings to you voices from
Teach Arabic at Home; Empowering non-Arabic speaking moms
Characteristics and Actions required to teach Arabic to your children Teaching Arabic to children is a dream for a lot of non-Arabic speaking parents. Most shy away from it because it’s too complex for them. In Arabically, we believe all parents
What increases our “willingness to communicate” in Arabic?
We have all tried to communicate in Arabic, having fed, wed or led some kind of middle eastern intervention in our lives. As for the those of you who were patriotically raised in such an environment and yet could not
What determines language difficulty?
If we were to scrutinize a language based solely on its grammar structure it would not be fair. Verb conjugations, deviation from basic word order, bound morphemes, character usage are a few core dimensions that contribute towards increasing levels of
Content and Language Integrated Learning; catching up to current trends in foreign language learning
A classroom filled with eager to not very eager students. A traditional methodology. An age old language. A fixed mindset for foreign language teaching. Tests. More tests. Dread. Together, we have the recipe for lagging (de)motivation in second language learning. In
The language extinction story, can we save it?
When I started exploring the social behaviors around learning and understanding the Arabic Language, I was in living in the West. My research was focused on non native speakers of the Arabic Language. Questions on their ability, motivation and mental