Climate change

فبراير 25th, 2008

عن كثب - القطب الشمالي+ ثاني أكسيد الكربون

عن كثب is a program on Al Jazeera about science and technology. The first 10 minutes of the program, which was shown in October 2007, is about climate change and the Arctic. The second part is about bacteria, but I’m focusing on the first part here.

Keywords to know for understanding the first segment include:

جو (jaw) - weather, atmosphere

مناخ (munaakh) - climate

صيف (sayf) - summer

شتاء (shitaa’) - winter

بارد (barid) - cold

حرارة (harrara) - heat

درجة الحرارة (darajat al-harrara) - temperature

ثلج (thalj) - ice, snow

أرض (ard) - Earth, land

شمال (shamal) - north

القطب الشمالي (al-qutib al-shamali) - the North Pole

جنوب (junub) - south

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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.