Arabic Without Walls

DVD Comprehension

Nice to Meet You

Exercise 1

Learn the polite expressions and questions you may use when meeting someone for the first time. Listen a few times to Scene 2 of the Alif Baa DVD 1 Dialogues then check your comprehension by answering the following questions.

The name of the male speaker is
The name of the female speaker is
The man is from
The woman is from
The greeting used to open the conversation is
The greeting that the speakers use in response to أهلا وسهلا is
The Arabic expression used in this dialogue to mean "pleased to meet you" is
Both speakers use the polite form of "you" to address each other. This form is
The male speaker comes from the city of
The female speaker in the dialogue comes from Cairo. Yet both speakers do not refer to Cairo as القاهرة as is customary in Standard Arabic. They, instead, refer to it using its Egyptian dialect name. The name they use is

Exercise 2

Match the appropriate response with each expression by selecting from the drop-down menu.