- The Arab Culture and Civilization website:
- Originally sponsored by NITLE, and offering a wealth of information about Arabic and the Arabic-speaking world, this site also contains several excellent articles on various aspects of Arabic, its dialects, and its development.
- Preparing Yourself to Teach FusHa and ‘Ammiyya:
- A short video of Kristen Brustad and Mahmoud Al-Batal, authors of the Al-Kitaab Arabic Language Program, discussing the pedagogy behind the third edition of the series, which encourages the simultaneous teaching of MSA and dialect.
- BBC Xtra Podcast
- A well-produced, near-daily, call-in-format, Arabic-language podcast that covers a wide range of social, political and economic topics. A great potential resource for building listening exercises with more advanced students.
- Aswat al-Arabiyya
- A wonderful resource of authentic listening materials, from the University of Texas at Austin.
- Say What? Exploring Arabic Language Dialects
- A very funny video from the National UAE, where speakers of various Arabic dialects compare vocabulary words with one another. Predictably, hilarity ensues.
- CERCLL Native Speakers Series
- A series of videos from the University of Arizona of native Arabic speakers talking about themselves in MSA.
- LARC at SDSU Native Speakers Interviews:
- A series of videos of native speakers answering questions in dialect and MSA, from the Language Acquisition Resource Center at San Diego State University.
- CERCLL Written Texts by Students of Arabic
- A collection of authentic texts written by students of Arabic.
- Arabic Dialects Video
- An (imperfect) video containing demonstrations of speakers of many dialects in the Arabic-speaking world. *Note that some of the dialects are taken from the media or from non-spontaneous sources, and so are not so accurate as representations of local dialects.
- Is Arabic Really Just One Language?
- A short piece on Slate about diglossia in Arabic.
- Arabic: A Language with Too Many Navies
- A short piece in the Economist on dialects and diglossia. A polarizing article (see the 9 pages of comments!).
- Translating “Frozen” Into Arabic
- An article in the New Yorker by Elias Muhanna on translating Disney’s Frozen into Arabic.
- Learning Arabic from Egypt’s Revolution
- A piece by Peter Hessler on learning Arabic in contemporary Egypt, which (despite some issues) makes some interesting points about the language.
- Some Thoughts from Professor Emerita Aleya Rouchdy
- An interesting blog post from Professor Aleya Rouchdy about various positions on the linguistic divide between Fusha and Ammiyya.
- الفصحى والعامية
- An Arabic-language article from Jordanian Newspaper al-Gad on the subject.
- بين العامية والفصحى
- A 2-part article on the issue of MSA and Ammiyya. Here is the the second part of video.
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