Is there a school in your town? A church or mosque? Maybe a factory, too? Learn to say some basic things about your city by watching a simple story video by Nadia Selim, entitled مدينة مرْيم madiinat maryam ‘Maryam’s city’. This video is ideal for someone who has just worked through the Bite-Size Arabic book. In this article I present the vocabulary used in this video. Look here for supplementary information on other videos in this series.

The video is available both here on her Arabic with Nadia website and here on YouTube. Here is the video:

In the following, I’ll guide you through vocabulary used in this video, by category.

Prepositions

Here are all of the prepositions used in this video.

‘There is’

You are probably already familiar with the Arabic word هناك hunaaka, meaning ‘there’. This word can also be used to mean ‘there is’ or ‘there are’, as in these examples:

Places

Maryam lives in Suez, which is a city in the north of Egypt:

Here is a list of other words for places mentioned in this video:

Other nouns

Adjectives

Odds and ends

What next?

Once you have mastered these words, why not check out some of the other useful learning materials on the Arabic with Nadia website?