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The High Court has taken the unusual step of reversing a circuit judge’s decision to reduce a costs budget.
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Full details of the Duke of York’s lobbying of US authorities to accept the billionaire’s plea deal over a sex offence will be made public with the information from the grand jury testimony set to be the death knell for the prince’s desperate attempts to return to royal life
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Analysis of the Virus SARS-CoV-2 as a Potential Bioweapon in Light of International Literature – PMC
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The smearing of Corbyn over his criticisms of Israel worked. But gaslighting much of the public as a dangerous “mob” for opposing even more egregious Israeli crimes may yet backfire
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Palestine solidarity: Cuba
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INTRODUCTION
M1: أهلا بكم
Munia: Munia here. Newbie Series Lesson 11 – “I want tea, please.” Hello and welcome back to the ArabicPod101.com, the fastest, easiest and most fun way to learn Arabic.
Yasin: I’m Yasin and I’m joined by Munia. مرحبا, Munia.
Munia: أهلا, Yasin. Hello, Yasin. Ok, can you tell us what we’ll be looking at today?
Yasin: Of course. The focus of this lesson is to learn how to make a simple order at a coffee shop. We’ll learn how to say “I want tea, please” or “I want coffee”.
Munia: Now that’s very useful. Not only we’re going to understand what the waiter asks us when he says “What would you like to drink?” or “Would you like something else?”, but will also be able to respond.
Yasin: This conversation takes place at a coffee shop. The conversation will be in formal Arabic. Ok. Some of you may already know about a powerful tool that will significantly improve your listening ability and pronunciation.
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Munia: Ok. Let’s listen to today’s conversation.
DIALOGUE
Yasin: ماذا تريدين أن تشربي؟
Munia: أريد شاي من فضلك
Yasin: هل ترغبين بشيء آخر
Munia: لا شكرا
Munia: One time, slowly.
Yasin: ماذا تريدين أن تشربي؟
Munia: أريد شاي من فضلك
Yasin:هل ترغبين بشيء آخر
Munia: لا شكرا
Munia: Now, with the translation.
Yasin: ماذا تريدين أن تشربي؟ What would you like to drink?
Munia: أريد شاي من فضلك I want tea, please?
Yasin: هل ترغبين بشيء آخر Would you like something else?
Munia: لا شكرا No, thank you.
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Munia: I am a tea person, really.
Yasin: Like most Moroccans. Most social life takes place around a cup of tea.
Munia: And not just any tea. It’s green tea with fresh mint. When you say شاي or “tea” in Arabic, at a coffee shop, the waiter automatically understands Moroccan green tea.
Yasin: Making good tea is considered an art form.
Munia: And drinking it with friends is an important ritual of the day.
Yasin: If you visit family or friends, the first thing they will serve you is a cup of mint tea.
Munia: Not doing so would be considered rude. And not drinking it would also be considered rude.
Yasin: So you might end up being served tea several times a day.
VOCAB LIST
Munia: Let’s take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson .النّادل
Yasin: The waiter.
Munia: النّادلة . النَّادِلْ
Yasin: The waitress.
Munia: ماذا تريدين أن تشربي؟ . النَّادِلَة
Yasin: What would you like to drink? – said to a woman.
Munia: ماذا تريد أن تشرب؟ . مَاذَا تُرِيدِينْ أَنْ تَشْرُبِي؟
Yasin: What would you like to drink? – said to a man.
Munia: أَرَادَ . مَاذَا تُرِيدُ أَنْ تَشْرُبْ؟
Yasin: To want.
Munia: أريد . أَرَادَ
Yasin: I want.
Munia: تريد . أُرِيدُ
Yasin: You want – said to a man.
Munia: تريدين . تُرِيدُ
Yasin: You want – said to a woman.
Munia: تريدان . تُرِيدِينْ
Yasin: You want – said to two people.
Munia: تريدون . تُرِيدَانْ
Yasin: You want – said to a group of people.
Munia: أريد شاي من فضلك . تُرِيدُونْ
Yasin: I want tea, please.
Munia: أريد قهوة من فضلك . أُرِيدُ شَايْ مِنْ فَضْلِكْ
Yasin: I want coffee, please.
Munia: نريد شاي . أُرِيدُ قَهْوَة مِنْ فَضْلِكْ
Yasin: We want tea.
Munia: هل ترغبين بشيء آخر . نُرِيدُ شَايْ
Yasin: Would you like something else? – said to a woman.
Munia: هل ترغب بشيء آخر . هَلْ تَرْغَبِينْ بِشَيْءْ آخَرْ
Yasin: Would you like something else? – said to a man.
Munia: شيء . هَلْ تَرْغَبُ بِشَيْءْ آخَرْ
Yasin: Thing, something.
VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
Munia: شَيْءْ . Let’s have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson.
Yasin: The first word we’ll look at is النّادل. While not mentioned in the dialogue, it’s the masculine word for “the waiter”.
Munia: Following the basic rule of masculine and feminine forms, the waitress is النّادلة.
Yasin: Now, how do we call a wait staff?
Munia: من فضلك , literally “please”. But we also use it to say “excuse me” when calling a waiter.
Yasin: In the dialogue, من فضلك . أريد شاي من فضلك here means “please”.
Munia: The next word we’d like to look at is شيء . Not to be confused with شاي, the word for “tea”.
Yasin: شيء means “thing” in Arabic. And depending on its context, it can mean “something” or “anything”.
Munia: In the dialogue, هل ترغبين بشيء آخر, “Would you like something else?”
Yasin: When preceded with the word أي , for example, أي شيء , it means “anything”.
Munia: Last, we would like to talk about ترغبين and تريدين.
Yasin: ترغبين means “you would like” and تريدين means “you want”, although we can use them interchangeably sometimes.
Munia: ماذا تريدين؟. What do you want?
Yasin: ماذا ترغبين؟ What would you like?
Lesson focusMunia: Today we’d like to cover the phrase “What would you like to drink?” ماذا تريدين أن تشربي؟
Yasin: It’s a phrase used to ask a woman. We learned how to use the phrase in the masculine, dual and plural forms.
Munia: The first word, ماذا , means “what”.
Yasin: The second word, تريدين , means “you want” when addressing a woman. It comes from the verb أراد , “to want”.
Munia: When talking to a man, we say تريد.
Yasin: When talking to two people, we say تريدان.
Munia: And to a group of people, we say ماذا تريدون؟ . تريدون .
Yasin: Now, the tricky part is the second verb in the phrase, “to drink”, which unlike English needs also to be conjugated in Arabic.
Munia: تشربي . ماذا تريدين أن تشربي؟ means “you drink”. It comes from the verb شرب.
Yasin: When addressing a man, we say ماذا تريد أن تشرب؟.
Munia: In the dual form, ماذا تريدان أن تشربا؟.
Yasin: And finally, ماذا تريدون أن تشربوا .
Munia: The answer to this question is much more simple. “I want tea” is أريد شاي.
Yasin: Or if you’re a coffee drinker, like me, you say أريد قهوة .
Munia: In the dual or plural form, we both say نريد قهوة . نريد شاي.
Yasin: Follow it with the word for “please”, من فضلك.
OutroMunia: That just about does it for today. Drastically improve your pronunciation with the Voice Recording Tool in the Premium Learning Center.
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Munia: مع السّلامة
Yasin: إلى اللّقاء
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Issue 135 – Week to 22 February 2024
MIDDLE EAST
Israel/Palestine
- The UK government abstained on a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. The US vetoed the resolution, while the other 13 members voted in favour.
- UK parliament adopted a vote on a ceasefire in Gaza, with the Labour party acting toremove claims that Israel is engaged in the “collective punishment” of Palestinians.
- House of Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle was reportedly pressured by the Labour party to allow its amendment to be voted on in favour of that of the SNP.
- A UK parliamentary delegation travelled to the Sinai to report on the conditions in Gaza. One MP said: “Nothing that has been reported braces you for the true scale of the horror in Gaza. We’re simply not getting accurate information about the levels of destruction and brutality”.
- The High Court dismissed a case urging the suspension of UK arms sales to Israel.
- UK defence secretary Grant Shapps confirmed in parliament that Britain will not cut arms sales to Israel.
- Anum Qaisar MP toldparliament that parts of Israel’s F-35 fighter jets are made in British factories. “It is morally corrupt, outrageous, and sickens me to my core that the UK continues to sell arms to Israel”, she said.
- UK foreign secretary David Cameron met with Israeli president Isaac Herzog at the Munich Security Conference. Herzog’s genocidal statements have been used as evidence in South Africa’s case at the ICJ.
- Forensic Architecture releasednew evidence to dispute the Israeli military’s claim that the Al-Ahli hospital “was struck by a misfiring Palestinian rocket”.
- The UK Attorney General visited Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, and met with “lawyers for the Israeli Defence Force and the President of the Supreme Court”.
Yemen
- Another UK-registered ship, named Rubymar, was struckby Houthis in the Red Sea.
- Shapps condemned the “reckless” attack by the Houthis, adding that the UK government would make a judgment “based on the reality on the ground” on whether to send more Royal Navy ships to the region.
Iran
- Iran’s foreign spokesman Nasser Kanaani condemnedthe US-UK attacks on Yemen as a “flagrant act of aggression and adventure”, accusing them of issuing “false claims” of not wanting to widen the war in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia
- Labour party leader Keir Starmer and shadow foreign secretary David Lammy metwith Saudi foreign minister Faisal bin Farhan at the Munich Security Conference.
Syria
- British Typhoon jets continued to patrol over Syria and Iraq, providing “critical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance data, as well as engag[ing] hostile targets when necessary”.
EUROPE
Russia
- The UK government said it is working “at pace” on new Russian sanctions following the death of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny in prison.
- UK foreign secretary David Cameron also announced an initial round of sanctions “on six officials overseeing the Arctic penal colony” where Navalny was being held.
Sweden
- The British army announcedthat its “close military relationship” with Sweden has been “strengthened” following joint training exercises in Lapland.
ASIA
Afghanistan
- It was found that UK special forces blocked UK resettlement applications from elite Afghan troops, likely due to shared knowledge of SAS engagement in war crimes.
- UK veterans minister Johnny Mercer told a public inquiry that he heard “horrific” accounts from former members of Afghan special forces of the SAS killing unarmed detainees and children.
- Mercer also said he was “desperate” to disprove claims of SAS war crimes in Afghanistan but was unable to do so.
AMERICAS
Argentina
- Cameron visited the Falkland Islands as part of his first visit to the South Atlantic, South America, and New York. He said: “The issue of sovereignty will not be up for discussion” with Argentina.
Paraguay
- Cameron also became the first UK foreign secretary to visit Paraguay.
Canada
- UK trade secretary Kemi Badenoch claimed she was engaged in trade talks with Canada – negotiations which Ottawa subsequently insisted did not happen.
JULIAN ASSANGE
- Julian Assange’s final extradition appeal was heardat the Royal Courts of Justice in London.
- Declassified revealed that Justice Jeremy Johnson, one of the judges who will rule on Assange’s appeal, has previously acted for MI6.
- Declassified also found that the other judge overseeing Assange’s extradition hearing, Dame Victoria Sharp, is closely linked to the British establishment through her father and brother.
- Babar Ahmad spoke to Declassified about what might come next for Assange. “One day in an American prison is like a year in a high-security prison in Britain”, he said.
- Following the death of Navalny, the Foreign Office was askedwhether the UK government will now free its own political prisoners. “There is no equivalence” between the two cases, said Foreign Office minister Leo Docherty.
MILITARY AND INTELLIGENCE
- The UK’s nuclear missile tests failed for the second time in eight years.
- BAE Systems reported a “record order backlog amid wars in Gaza and Ukraine”, saying it had taken £37.7bn in new orders.
- The UK parliament heard that the number of military referrals of UK armed forces personnel to its Prevent programme has risen from 5 in 2018 to 22 in 2023.
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