The Arabic PodClass :The Arabic Language Podcast

Special : 1/4 and an announcement

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:35:00 +0000

Welcome to this special episode of the Arabic Podclass.

This is the first of a 4 parts series of episodes that reviews everything we talked about since the begining of The Arabic Pdoclass.

This episode is NOT totally free ^_^;;;

The good news is that it costs only $1. You might consider it as a support for The Arabic Podclass not a greed for money ^_~

But that doesn't mean that The Arabic Podclass will not be free. It will stay free.

You just have to pay for special episodes (like this review)

Please send your feedbacks and your opinions to thearabicpodclass@gmail.com

See you in the next (free) episode of The Arabic Podclass.

In this episode :

1- How to see hello in Arabic (new phrases added)
2- Types of the Arabic sentence. (the nominal sentence and the verbal sentence)
3-Arabic vowel points
4-Arabic Pronouns (updated)

Click on the paypal button to purchase the episode.

Excerpts from:The Mad Man | Episode 2

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:27:00 +0000

Welcome to episode 2 of Excerpts from The Mad Man from The Arabic Podclass.
In this episode you'll listen to : The Pomegranate (الرمانة)

You can download the episode from here (iPhone Video)

MP3 Edition. [Link]

Online

Please send your comments to : thearabicpodclass [at] gmail [dot] com

Excerpts from:The Mad Man | Epsiode 1

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:47:00 +0000

Welcome to this special video series of The Arabic Podclass.

In this series you will to listen to excerpts from a great book : The Mad Man by the Khlil Gibran. You'll be able to read the Arabic translation and the original English text of the book.

In this episode you'll listen to : Said a Blade of Grass (وريقة عشب وورقة خريف)

You can download the episode from here (iPhone Video)

or the MP3 Edition. [Link]

Please send your comments to : thearabicpodclass [at] gmail [dot] com

Episode 19: It's an interview :)

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:58:00 +0000

Hello and Welcome to episode 19 of the Arabic Podclass, in this episode I interviewd Hanna Ryden; a Swedish Journalist from Sydsvenskan newspaper in Malmo (a great city in the south of Sweden)
In this interview Hanna talks about her experience in learning arabic and why did she learn it, she also shares her experience about living in Syria in a really funny way :)

Download Episode 19

Sorry again ..

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:11:00 +0000

I'm really sorry for being later like this. I'm in Sweden attending the YLVP now and planning to make some interviews about learning Arabic, perhaps I'll make an episode from here as well. Sorry again.

Any listeners from Stockholm :) We can meet .. drop me an email : salehmeka@gmail.com

Episode 18 : Plural says hi to Qattora!ُ

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:58:00 +0000

Welcome to episode 18 of The Arabic Podclass.

In this episode :

1- The plural in Arabic.

جمع المذكر السالم
جمع المؤنث السالم
جمع التكسير

2- Qattora ( a wonderful song for children)

You can download episode 18 from here [MP3]

Qattora Video clip

Song transcript

Episode 18 transcript - Upload a Document to Scribd

Download transcript

Do you know the meaning of Shawshara ?

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:33:00 +0000

Songs are a great source for any language learner, sometimes it's really important to get the lyrics for the song that you are learning from.

Shawshara.com has a lot of Arabic songs lyrics. From old music for Um-Kolthom and Fairouz to the latest albums of Elissa, Marwan Khori and many more! It's also a wiki site, when you see yourself ready .. go ahead and add some Arabic lyrics ;)

www.shawshara.com

Special Episode …Special proverbs

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:34:00 +0000

Welcome..
This is a special episode of the Arabic Podclass.
In this episode I’ll read two different Arabic sentences, your task is to try to read the next as best as you can and send it to me as a voice mail.

The sentences are :

الكَلامُ مِنْ فِضَّة، ولَكِنَّ السُّكُوتَ مِنْ ذَهَبْ

Speech is silver, but silence is gold

لَيْسَ للتعلٌّمِ سِنٌّ يَقفُ عِنْدَها

Never too old to learn

You can send your emails to :
thearabicpodclass@gmail.com
or
salehmeka@gmail.com

You can download this episode from here [Mp3]

Episode 17 : كان , إن and Kalemat

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:24:00 +0000

Welcome to episode 17 of the Arabic Podclass.

In this episode :

Grammar :
إن وأخواتها ( Inna and its sisters) and كان وأخواتها (Kana and its sisters)
Song :
كلمات (words) for Majeda Al-roumi

You can download episode 17 from Here
or listen online:

Song Lyris:

يُسمعني.. حـينَ يراقصُني
كلماتٍ ليست كالكلمات
He tells me,
When he dances with me,
Words that aren't like words

يأخذني من تحـتِ ذراعي
يزرعني في إحدى الغيمات
والمطـرُ الأسـودُ في عيني
يتساقـطُ زخاتٍ.. زخات
He takes me underneath my arm
And plants me in a cloud
And the black rain in my eye
Pours down... pours

يحملـني معـهُ.. يحملـني
لمسـاءٍ ورديِ الشُـرفـات
He carries me with him... he carries me
To a night on a rose-filled terrace

وأنا.. كالطفلـةِ في يـدهِ
كالريشةِ تحملها النسمـات
And I am like a child in his hand
Like a feather carried on the breeze

يهديني شمسـاً.. يهـديني
صيفاً.. وقطيـعَ سنونوَّات
He gives me a sun... he gives me
A summer and a flock of swallows

يخـبرني.. أني تحفتـهُ
وأساوي آلافَ النجمات
He tells me... that I am his masterpiece
And I am equal to thousands of stars

و بأنـي كنـزٌ... وبأني
أجملُ ما شاهدَ من لوحات
And that I am a treasure... and that I am
More beautiful than any painting he'd ever seen

يروي أشيـاءَ تدوخـني
تنسيني المرقصَ والخطوات
كلماتٍ تقلـبُ تاريخي
تجعلني امرأةً في لحظـات
يبني لي قصـراً من وهـمٍ
لا أسكنُ فيهِ سوى لحظات
وأعودُ.. أعودُ لطـاولـتي
لا شيءَ معي.. إلا كلمات
He tells me things that make me giddy
That make me forget the dance hall and the steps
Words that upturn my history
That make me a woman in seconds

He's builds me a castle of illusions
I don't live in it except for a few moments
And I return, I return to my table
With nothing with me... except words

Translation from arabicmusictranslation.com

Episode 16 : Verbal sentences, commercials and Anas&Friends

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:25:00 +0000

Welcome to episode 16 of the Arabic Podclass.
In this episode :

Verbal and negative sentences in Arabic. Please visit Arabic

Wiki for more information

Arabic commercials

A song for Anas&Friends : A Daw Al amar (in the moon light)

You can download episode 16 from here.
Or listen online:

Update !!

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:47:00 +0000

Hello again...

As you can see I'm working now on the new look for the Arabic Podclass, next week the new theme will be be ready with episode 16.

Sorry for being late again.

Very sorry for being late like this :$

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:37:00 +0000

Hello Everyone,

I would like to say that I'm very sorry for not producing any new episode, I was very busy in last two months. A lot of new things happened ;)

Anyway The Arabic Podclass will be back soon with more new ideas in the show and more new content.

Sorry Again,

Arabic Songs Lyrics and Translation

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:44:00 +0000

From the website :

With over 520 songs of over 125 artists from all over the Arabic speaking world in translation
Artists include: Abdel Halim Hafez, Oum Kalthoum, Fairuz, Nancy Ajram, Hussain al-Jasmi, Amr Diab, Tamer Hosni, Khaled, Natacha Atlas, Elissa, Sherine, Haifa Wehbe, Marcel Khalifa, Kazem el-Saher and many more.

You can visit it from HERE

Isn't that great !! Songs and translations .. the best for any language student ;)

Episode 15 : Arabic sentences, Boxing and Reem Albanna

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:29:00 +0000

Welcome to episode 15 of the Arabic Podclass ...

In this episode :

Types of the Arabic sentences. Visit Arabic Wiki for more information.

We will listen to a boxing match in Arabic.

Important words :

الجولة : Round

ملاكمة : Boxking

ملاكم : Boxer

سرعة فائقة : High Speed

تدريب : Training

زملاؤه : His mates

لكمة : Box

جسد : Body

قدرة : Ability

مهارة :Skill

نزال : Fight, Combat

يفوز : Win

وجه : Face

شجاعة : Bravery

A song for Reem Albanna : The Mirrors of My Soul ( مرايا الرّوح )

You can download episode 15 from HERE.

or listen online :

Episode 14 : Solar,Lunar and Cartoons

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:00:00 +0000

Welcome to episode 14 of the Arabic Podclass.

In this episode :

The Arabic Solar and Lunar letters.

more info from Arabic Wiki [link]

Arabic Cartoons :

You can download episode 14 from here.
or listen online :

On Windows Vista ??

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 13:57:00 +0000

Yes, that's true. The Arabic Podclass was featured on Windows Vista Magazine (September 2007 issue) and I was interviewed for the foreign fluency feature : Learn a language.
The feature focuses on learning another language using your computer and how language learning process was affected by web.
Thanks to the writer Chris Hicks for asking me about my opinion about learning languages and for this great feature.

www.windowsvistamagazine.co.uk

psst : hours of free language lessons on the Magazine CD

Episode 13 : Definite, indefinite , Directions and Julia

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:03:00 +0000

Welcome to episode 13 of the Arabic Podclass.

In this episode :
1- Grammar :
Definite and indefinite in Arabic. ( from Arabic MSA Course)
the transcrpit can be found here [link].
2-Situation :
Today's situation is about Direction in Arabic and how to talk about them.
3-Talk :
A song for Julia Boutros. (Ala Sho)

Download Episode 13 from here [Mp3]
or listen online :

The Arabic Podclass EXTRA .. a new episode

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:13:00 +0000

Hello ...

The Arabic Podclass Extra has a new episode. It's the Arabic Translation for the Classic, The Frog Prince.

you can get the episode from the Arabic Podclas Extra site. (here)

Hola !! The Arabic Podclass is now avaliable in Spanish

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:46:00 +0000

Greetings to all Arabic enthusiasts worldwide. Thanks to Mayra from Mexico, The Arabic Podclass Episodes are now avaliable in Spanish.

So if you have a Spanish friend who loves the Arabic Language and is searching for free lessons, you can tell him about "La Lengua arabe Podcast" ;)

you can visit the site from here

more languages will be avaliable soon.
Please send your comments to thearabicpodclass@gmail.com

Episode 13 of the Arabic Podclass is coming soon

Episode 12 : Gender of nouns and new conversations

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:58:00 +0000

Welcome to Episode 12 of the Arabic Podclass.

Today's episode is about Gender of Nouns in Arabic ( جنس الأسماء ).

for more information about the gender of nouns please visit : Arabic Wiki Site.

Starting from this episode, grammar lessons in the Arabic Podclass will be adopted from
# Arabic : a free of charge volunteer educational community for the study of the Arabic language and culture. you can visit the site from here.
The Course is MSA Course 01.

The Situation today is about Food, my brother Beshr joined me in a conversation that happens in an ordinary restaurant.

Transcript :

Click on download as PDF to download the transcript

You can download episode 12 from here

or listen online

The Arabic Podclass has a new surprise will be announced soon ;)

Episode 11 : Demonstratives and Month Systems

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:37:00 +0000

Welcome to episode 11 of the Arabic Podclass.

In this episode we will talk about Demonstratives (the pronouns of indication) and we will learn the Arabic Months ( الأشهر العربية ).
At the end of this episode we will listen to a new song for Lena Chamamyan and will try to learn these new words :

فتاة : Girl
قدر : Fate
بشر : People , Human
فاها : her mouth
أخضر : Green
الأجراس : Bells
صلاة: Pray
روح : Soul
قلب : Heart
أمي : my mother
فستان : dress

you can download Episode 11 from here [Link]
or listen online :

More information about :

Thanks to #Arabic Wiki.

Episode 11. Is it coming ?

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 14:07:00 +0000

I'm really sorry for this delay in Episode 11 of The Arabic Podclass but my exams are coming soon and I have to prepare my self.
However I'm still working on episode 11 - you're right, too slow - and it will be ready next week.

Sorry again.

Episode 10 : Imperative, Shopping and Lena Chamamyan

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:30:00 +0000

Welcome to episode 10 of The Arabic Podclass.

In this episode we will finish the Arabic verb forms with the imperative form, then we'll learn about buying and shopping in Arabic.
At the end of the episode we'll listen to a great song for Lena Chamamyan.

You can download episode 10 from here.

or listen online :

Additional Links :

Arabic Verbs :

Music :

Lena Chamamyan official website [link]

It's time to change ...

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:49:00 +0000

Because of some emails I received lately .. I found that I have to change the design of this blog , I have to make it easier to use ...

I'll be working on that until the end of this week ... see you next Monday on Episode 10 of the Arabic Podclass.

Meanwhile you can reach episodes archive from The Arabic Podclass odeo channel [link]

What is the Arabic Podclass EXTRA???

noreply@blogger.com (محمد صالح كيالي) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:26:00 +0000

Simply, an extra podcast that increases our skills by listening to different Arabic audio materials in different subjects: short stories, movies reviews and many more....

We all know that hearing and hearing is the best way to be familiar with any language, so get ready to be familiar with Arabic ;)

you can subscribe to this podcast separately from here ... ( it's about BABEL ;) )