Arabic English

Learn more about the different grammar rules and skills that will take your Arabic skills up a level—taking you further along your language learning journey and enabling you to engage in more than just basic conversation.

Basics of Arabic Vocabulary, audio download by Ayman S. Ibrahim is a convenient and useful audio companion for students wanting to learn and reinforce Arabic vocabulary.

This is an introduction to Arabic love expressions, in all Arabic dialects, with teacher’s notes. Imagine being able to say "I Love You" in Arabic, no matter to whom you're speaking, or in which part of the world. This is more than a phrasebook: It's a window on cultures and customs across the Arab world. Whether you are a native speaker, a student, or even just a fan of love stories who never spoke a word of Arabic, you will find inspiration in this audio.

Growing up together in the Surra section of central Kuwait, Katkout, Fahd, and Sadiq share neither ethnic origin nor religious denomination - only friendship and a rage against the unconscionable sectarian divide turning their lives into war-zone rubble. To lay bare the ugly truths, they form the protest group Fuada’s Kids. Their righteous transgressions have made them targets of both Sunni and Shi’a extremists. They’ve also elicited the concern of Fahd’s grandmother, Mama Hissa, who cautions them that should they anger God, the sky will surely fall.

Snoffle the squirrel is very, very, very silly. She can't take anything seriously. But one day, an incident in Foggy Forest makes her feel very serious indeed. What happens, and what does Snoffle learn? Listen to find out.

Helen is a young Yazidi woman, living with her family in a mountain village in Sinjar, northern Iraq. One day she finds a local bird caught in a trap and frees it, just as the trapper, Elias, returns. At first angry, he soon sees the error of his ways and vows never to keep a bird captive again. Helen and Elias fall deeply in love, marry and start a family in Sinjar. The village has seemed to stand apart from time, protected by the mountains and too small to attract much political notice. But their happy existence is suddenly shattered when Elias, a journalist, goes missing.

Zara Saleem is the queen of the neighborhood. Zara’s in charge of it all: She organizes the games, picks the teams, and always makes sure everybody is having a good time...her way. Until a new family moves in across the street and suddenly Zara’s reign is threatened by Naomi, who seems to have lots of good ideas about how the neighborhood kids can have fun. To reclaim her crown, Zara decides she’s going to break a Guinness World Record to get everyone to notice her again.