United Nations radio

ديسمبر 12th, 2007

A new word for the day is الأمم المتحدة (al-omma al-mutaheeda), which is Arabic for “the United Nations”. Google is a good friend for learning a language. Searching الأمم المتحدة, I found a United Nations radio website (إذاعة الأمم المتحدة) that has Arabic-language news stories, along with audio. The audio stories tend to be the exact same thing that is written in the article text. Also, these clips are fairly short — just a few minutes, and can be replayed over and over again in case you missed something or want to stop and look up a word.

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I am studying Arabic at the Middle East Institute in Washington, DC, and will be in Egypt in the summer. This site covers Arabic grammar, vocabulary, and other aspects of the Arabic language, and makes frequent use of YouTube videos, news, and other Arabic language resources on the Internet.