e-Arabic Learning Portal (eALP)

Your Gateway to a Growing Repository of Arabic eLearning Resources (In-House & Third Party) | CASAW | Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World | مركز الدراسات المتقدمة للعالم العربي | Universities of Edinburgh, Durham & Manchester

Archive for February, 2008

The Sound of Music - Learn Arabic with Music Video Clips - الموسيقى العربية

Posted by eLearner On February - 19 - 2008 ADD COMMENTS

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Description of the eLearning tool

Immerse yourself in Arabic/Egyptian language and culture by watching subtitled videos!

All videos are subtitled in three different texts:

  1. the Arabic subtitle,
  2. the literal translation,
  3. the real translation.

This section can be a great resource to learn new words/idioms and develop your listening comprehension.

Enjoy!

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ArEg - Multimedia Music Video clips

Auditory/Aural Learning, Multimedia Learning, Visual Learning

Deutsche Wella Arabic News Radio Podcasts - راديو دويتشه فيله

Posted by eLearner On February - 16 - 2008 ADD COMMENTS

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Auditory/Aural Learning, Autonomous Learning

e-Book: Basic Arabic Workbook: For Revision and Practice, John Mace

Posted by Mourad Diouri On February - 14 - 2008 ADD COMMENTS

Basic Arabic Workbook: For Revision and Practice - By John Mace

This workbook is intended to give the user a practical understanding of the Arabic language. As such, it meets the needs of both students and professionals who need to communicate in Arabic for their work. The grammar is presented in a progressive, easy-to-follow manner. Each chapter centers on an important theme. Additionally, certain chapters provide basic vocabulary for a given subject - industry, town and country, politics, economy, information and the like.

Preview the e-version of the book

Basic Arabic Workbook - Google Book Search

Intermediate Arabic Workbook

By John Mace

http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA4&lpg=PP1&dq=arabic+workbook&sig=whWkBDVGWKhLrDAp1oyfFEtWa8Y&id=WKjgkrNJuKYC#PPP1,M1

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Authorware: The GISMO Project (Guildhall Interactive Software for Multimedia Online)

Posted by Mourad Diouri On February - 11 - 2008 ADD COMMENTS

A selection of teaching materials produced by The Department of Humanities, Arts and Languages at London Metropolitan University using the authoring program developed within the department that allows language teachers to prepare their own audio-enhanced websites containing a variety of interactive exercises.

Any educational institution is welcome to use this material.

The software combines the ability to edit your own text and then to record someone reading it, all using the same program.

The sound and text are then automatically integrated and a web page containing the exercises is generated.

Format : Web-based resource (requires Java 1.3 Plugin)


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The GISMO Project

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Arabic School : Trial-free Interactive Software for Beginners)

Posted by Mourad Diouri On February - 11 - 2008 ADD COMMENTS

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Podcasting Tool: Recording/Editing Streaming Audio

Posted by Mourad Diouri On February - 1 - 2008 ADD COMMENTS

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds including steaming audio from online Arabic Radio and TV stations.

If you are learning Arabic, try recording yourself talking in Arabic and share it with your tutor and classmates online.

Record yourself on digital-audio format to develop your fluency. For instance:

  • Record a spontaneous talk about yourself, your intersts, your weekly routine etc…
  • Record your written assignments if you are studying a specialised topic (e.g. Midlle Eastern and Islamic studies)
  • then replay it and critically analyse the recording
  • Preferably with the help of your peers or even your teacher, identify any mistakes in pronounciation, grammar, use of language, choice of vocabulary, etc…)
  • Repeat the recording process and taking into account the correction made, find out how to say what you wanted to say fluently and accuraetely.

To convert your audio files into MP3 format, you need to download an MP3 encoding software

To learn how to use Audacity, watch the following tutorial

Download Audacity

Download MP3 encoding software

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