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Virtual Arabic: Digitized Language Realia
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This blog offers a wealth of realia (realia is real life material meant to be used to aid language study in classroom situations). It has an index on the right hand side that will take the viewer to relevant selections in the blog's archive. Many of the archived items are images, but there are also videos, children's books, news media, and other items. Some of the links, especially the video links, are no longer functional.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Reading
Provider:
V-Arabic
Date Added:
08/27/2013
Virtual Arabic: Digitized Language Realia - Culture
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This subpage of the Virtual Arabic blog offers realia material (realia is real life material meant to be used to aid language study in classroom situations) regarding culture and social material. The material listed on this subpage include social movement campaigns, aspects of everyday Arabic culture, and political cartoons. Material is available in picture, video, and text format.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
V-Arabic
Date Added:
09/17/2013
Virtual Arabic: Digitized Language Realia - Culture & Art
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This subpage of the Virtual Arabic blog offers realia material (realia is real life material meant to be used to aid language study in classroom situations) regarding Arabic calligraphy. Numerous calligraphic examples are posted which demonstrate the different styles of Arabic calligraphy writing and art, most of which are well-recognized works that represent common Arabic expressions and phrases.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
V-Arabic
Date Added:
09/17/2013
Virtual Arabic: Digitized Language Realia - Food
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This subpage of the Virtual Arabic blog offers realia material (realia is real life material meant to be used to aid language study in classroom situations) regarding food and drink items found in different parts of the world. The items are listed on various Arabic signs and advertisements, and serve as useful examples of how food and drink material are visually and stylistically represented in the restaurant and advertisement industries.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
V-Arabic
Date Added:
09/17/2013
Virtual Arabic: Digitized Language Realia - Shopping, Currency, & Food
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This subpage of the Virtual Arabic blog offers realia material (realia is real life material meant to be used to aid language study in classroom situations) regarding shopping and currency. The material listed on this subpage includes pictures and videos related to Arab modes of currency, signs signifying shopping malls/outlets, and commercials designed to advertise particular products.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
V-Arabic
Date Added:
09/17/2013
Virtual Arabic: Digitized Language Realia - Travel and Places
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This subpage of Virtual Arabic blog offers realia (realia is real life material meant to be used to aid language study in classroom situations) material regarding travel, trips, tourism, and places. Specific topics include a video account of a trip to Morocco, an image displaying many license plates from the Arab world, and video guides of well-known Arab hotels. Many of the archived items are images, but there are also videos, ebooks, and guides.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
V-Arabic
Date Added:
09/17/2013
Wictionary in Arabic
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Wictionary is a free dictionary that gives definitions in 170 different languages. The dictionary only gives definitions within the language, not from language to language. Intended as a lexical companion to the encyclopedia project Wikipedia, Wictionary includes etymologies, pronunciations, quotations, synonyms, and antonyms where appropriate. Users can add definitions by creating an account. Certain words for Arabic also include masdars. An audio component is included for certain languages, Arabic not among them.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
Wikimedia Foundation
Date Added:
10/14/2013
The Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative (YMDI)
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The Yemen Manuscript Digitization Initiative (YMDI) is a collective of research librarians and leading scholars of classical Islam, Middle Eastern history, and Arabic Literature whose mission is to preserve the Arabic manuscripts in the private libraries of Yemen. This website is the home page through which users can explore more than 100 digitized manuscripts, including topics such as law, arithmetic, medicine, Islamic studies, and more.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
The Yemeni Manuscript Digitization Initiative
Date Added:
10/14/2013
abcLeb Lebanese Language
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This is a company that teaches the Lebanese language; it is argued here that it is not in fact a dialect of Arabic but a separate language. Publications forthcoming in 2013 are Lebanese at a Glance Phrasebook and CD, and 2000 Lebanese Verb Conjugations. There are also future plans to teach the Lebanese language online; currently all 101 materials are available as downloadable PDFs. Also available is a Lebanese-English-Lebanese dictionary, numbers, pronouns, and more.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
abcLeb
Date Added:
10/14/2013