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Going to a web page

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:06:42 +0200

This blog will continue, but I am making a web page that will be easier to navigate. Click on the title of this post to go to my web page.

Jeremy

Hashemite University Summer Intensive Arabic Program

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:27:41 +0200

Click on the title of this post to go to Hashemite University's website about their Summer Intensive Arabic program.

Arabic in Tunis

Sat, 18 Feb 2006 06:46:40 +0200

Damascus University and Brigham Young University

Thu, 9 Feb 2006 05:40:39 +0200

My Alma Mater and Damascus University sign an accord for more student exchanges. Sounds like a great opportunity for both establishments. Click on the title of this post if you are interested in reading about it.

Basics of Iraqi Arabic

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:12:38 +0200

Click on the title to go to the Defense Language Institute's free online basics of Iraqi Arabic course complete with mp3s and more.

School System Adds Arabic and Chinese

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 07:07:37 +0200

Click on the title of this post to go to an interesting article from connectionnewspapers.com about Arabic for middle and high schoolers. This is one of the keys to freeing the US from its monolingualism: get the kids to start learning foreign languages when they are younger so that when they grow up - the foreign languages aren't quite so foreign and seemingly unlearnable.

Jeremy's Arabic notebooks. Featuring "Spotlight" and making phone calls

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:40:36 +0200

So I have piles of language notebooks.

Learning and Teaching Arabic

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:36:12 +0200

For students and teachers of the Arabic language

Learning Arabic, and much more - in Amman

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 07:16:35 +0200

Click on the title of this post to go to the article "Learning Arabic, and much more" by Justin Martin a fulbrighter in Amman, Jordan.

It seems that there is a good deal of interest in expanding and creating Arabic programs for foreigners in Amman.

Book Review: Top 1,000 Words for Understanding Media Arabic

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:47:34 +0200

To expand foreign language mastery, attitudes must change

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:59:33 +0200

Click on the title to go to the article at DesMoinesRegister.com. The author is David Maxwell.

Here is an article that is right up my alley of interest.

Status Report

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 05:09:32 +0200

This semester's beginning has hit me like a train. I will try and post soon. Let me know if there are any particular questions or issues that would be of in

Initial Review of Using Arabic by Mahdi Alosh

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 06:54:31 +0200

I purchased "Using Arabic: A Guide to Contemporary Usage" by Mahdi Alosh a week or so ago (See my previous post for more information aobut the book). I have spent a few hours going through the book since and have found it to be worth the 25$ I paid.

Using Arabic - grammar book

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:39:30 +0200

MarHaban,

I bought this book today and look forward to going through it. Mahdi Alosh is perhaps the premier Arabic grammarian and linguist. Click on the title of this post to go to the publisher's site.

Aswaat Arabiyya

Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:54:29 +0200

This website is super cool.