Dental hygiene

فبراير 1st, 2008

My Arabic course has started up again, now taking EMSA IV (it’s broken into five courses, to complete EMSA). We are studying from the Ahlan Wa Sahlan textbook. In my class today, we learned some vocabulary to use to describe one’s activities for the day or one’s daily routine.
The day starts in the morning with activities including: اِسْتَحَمَّ (istaham) - to bathe or showers and غَسَلَ (ghasala) - wash. One would also فُرْشاة (fursha’) - to brush; أسْنان (asnan) - teeth or سِنٌْ (sinu) - tooth.
To help remember some of these words, I found this video. Other words here include فم (fam) - mouth; يزيل (yezil), which is derived from زول which means to vanish, disappear, etc.

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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.