Monday, April 19, 2010

RadioSawa












Radio Sawa seeks to effectively communicate with the youthful population of Arabic-speakers in the Middle East by providing up-to-date news, information and entertainment on FM and medium wave radio stations throughout the region and on Radio Sawa's website. A good source to intermediate students who are looking to improve their listening and be introduced to the Arab-media.

Radio Sawa <-- (click here)

http://radiosawa.com/index.aspx#afp

Arabic Poetry















This site introduces students to the high literature Arabic and proposes sources for Arabic poets and poetry in the middle age. The site also presents the most famous poets in the pre-Islamic era.

Arabic Poetry <-- (click here)
http://www.princeton.edu/~arabic/poetry/index.html

Fun with Arabic Songs


















This site has an array of songs for kids related to different topics. An authentic source for students to enhance their listening using songs as a content.

Fun with Arabic Songs <-- (click here)
http://www.enshad.net/kids/

Enhancing Listening through Songs












Great site to improve students' listening through variety of songs.
It is an eclectic themes for kids related to cultural, religious, historic, fairytale stories.

Eclectic Songs for kids <-- (click here)
http://www.4kid1.com/anasheed.htm

Arabic Voices "Aswaat cArabiyya"

The Arabic Voices site helps students of Arabic with their listening comprehension. It is divided into 6 categories, Beginner, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced, Highly Advanced and then "Mutafawwiq", which is the highest. For each category there are some video recording. and for some recordings there are Questions and Answers.
The video content included in the Aswaat cArabiyya project came from a variety of Arabic TV stations throughout the Arab world.

Arabic Voices <-- (click here)
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/aswaat/video_s.php#/0/baba_ghanouj_elementary/

Audio and Video material


This site provides the users with the audio and video materials to be in the service of the teaching of the Arabic language. The material is collected for educational purposes only. A collection of materials from Aljazeerah Channel- Qatar, Syadati Magazine, Ashraq Alawasat Newspaper, the BBC News Channel. and the Bahraini TV.

Audio and Video material <-- (click here)

http://www.jordanianarabic.com/arabicclass/masika/listening.html

Virtual Realia


Realia is a term used in education to refer to certain real-life objects. In education, realia are objects from real life used in classroom instruction. In education, realia include objects used by educators to help students to understand better other cultures and real life situations. A teacher of a foreign language often employs realia to strengthen students' associations between words for everyday objects and the objects themselves.
This product is digitized objects and items from the target culture which are brought into the classroom as examples or aids and used to stimulate spoken or written language production.

Virtual Realia <-- (click here)
http://varabic.wordpress.com/

Audacity


Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

  • Record live audio.
  • Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
  • Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
  • Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
  • Change the speed or pitch of a recording.

Audacity <-- (click here)
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Arabic2000


Arabic 2000 presents Arabic learning with multimedia program featuring point and click native speaker's sound, ability to record your own and compare and animated illustration of how to write. Users will listen to real audio and watch animations(demo lesson available). The program also presents interactive Arabic alphabet, common words and phrases, daily Arabic word and more.

Arabic2000 <-- (click here)
http://www.arabic2000.com/arabic/public/common.html

Natural Arabic


The site Natural Arabic was launched in May 2006. Its aim is to make learning Arabic as natural a process as possible - by immersing learners in the language from day one. The user will be able to discover the language by selecting topics by listening to them, rather than have to work through a set course. Natural Arabic will enable learners to grasp Arabic, whatever the current level.

Natural Arabic <-- (click here)
http://www.naturalarabic.com/free_samples.php