Turkey military operations in Iraq

أبريل 2nd, 2008

This Al Jazeera news clip, from a month ago, has the headline:
الجيش التركي يعلن إنه بدأ عملية عسكرية برية في شمالي العراق

There are some key words here to help understand the news clip, including:

جيش (jeysh) - army

عسكرية (askaria) - military

عملية (a’malia) - operation (including military operations, but also medical procedures and other uses of this word)

بر (barr) - land, ground

أعلن (a’lana) - announce

 بدأ (bada’a) - begin

شمال (shamal) - north

Also place names:

تركي - Turkey

عراق - Iraq

With these words, the headline translates as “Turkey announces the army is beginning military ground operations in northern Iraq”

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Mahdi Army

يناير 11th, 2008

Al Jazeera posts video clips and programs on YouTube. Watching these helps with learning vocabulary, pronunciation, and improving listening comprehension. This video is from last spring, about the Mahdi Army in Iraq. The word for “army” is جيس (jeish).

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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.


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