The English language has absorbed all manner of Arabic words over the centuries. Surprising entries include the word ‘jar,’ and ‘serendipity,’ adapted from the Arabic language and now used with no ...

Students in this course will develop their skills in speaking, hearing, reading, and writing Modern Standard Arabic, the form of the Arabic language shared by all Arab countries. The course covers ...

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I was extremely nervous to begin studying Arabic at Georgetown University. Like most people who study Arabic, I had some valid concerns about learning a language radically different from my first ...

IT is considered quite normal for languages to borrow words from other languages. When a language takes words from other languages, these “new arrivals” are usually called borrowings or loan words.

Reema Saffarini reports on the problems students face when they shift from Arabic-medium schools to English-medium universities. Reema Saffarini reports on the problems students face when they shift ...

Most Lebanese youth speak a mixture of Arabic, French and English When Randa Makhoul, an art teacher at a school in Beirut, asks her students a question in Arabic, she often gets a reply in English or ...

Cairo — Economist Riham Shendy started collecting children's books when she was expecting her twins. An Egyptian married to a German and living in New York, she was determined to teach her children ...

April 2007With the business universe becoming a common ground for the English and Arabic speaking worlds, Sara Kilani looks at the impact of Arabish as a rising language barrier. Afew years ago, HSBC ...