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Nov 2020
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Episode Eight: Expressions and sayings i...

Olivia Furber
About this episode

Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Eight!

Apologies for my absence, but now i'm back AND I have some news which is that i've set up an email address through which you can pass on your comments and feedback about the podcast as well as make suggestions for topics you would benefit from hearing about. 

Please feel free to get in touch at learnlevantine@gmail.com

In other good news, i'm happy to tell you that Ramzi has some spaces available for conversational Arabic classes for intermediate students. His classes are ideally suited to those who can understand around 70% of the conversations in the podcast. For more information please get in touch at the same email address learnlevantine@gmail.com

I can highly recommend him as a teacher.

Here are some of the new words we will be hearing in today's episode:

عبارات - Sayings

أمثال - Examples

تعبير - Expression

وفرة - Abundance

بتستحضر - You evoke

وقح - Rude

اللغة المحكية - The spoken language

مبالغين - Exaggerators / People who exaggerate 

مشابهة - Similar

فاصلة - Comma

بذكرو - They mention

الديك - The cockerel

معطيات - Data

برمي - I throw

تجنب - Avoiding / Avoid

بذيء - Indecent

سلفاً - In advance

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