Thursday, December 26, 2013

"Tunisian Arabic in 24 Lessons" The Hot new release on Amazon and Kindle


This is an enjoyable, easy to read and practical handbook to learn Tunisian Arabic, the spoken language in Tunisia, North Africa.
This book is intended to help visitors to Tunisia eplore and enjoy Tunisian culture more authentically by familiarizing with one facet of its identity: its spoken vernacular!
It is also helpful to people who wish to communicate in Tunsian Arabic with Tunisians worldwide, but also with speakers of related Arabic dialects in general (Egyptian, Moroccan, Libyan ialects).
Finally and simply, this is a funny and instructive book for readers who love discovering exotic foreign languages…and who are always keen to learn new foreign languages!
After reading this book, say within two/three hours, and with some practice, you will be able to really speak and genuinely communicate in Tunisian Arabic!



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Tunisian Arabic in 30 Lessons, Best Seller in Createspace Amazon


This is an enjoyable, easy to read and practical handbook to learn Tunisian Arabic, the spoken language in Tunisia, North Africa.
This book is intended to help visitors to Tunisia eplore and enjoy Tunisian culture more authentically by familiarizing with one facet of its identity: its spoken vernacular!
It is also helpful to people who wish to communicate in Tunsian Arabic with Tunisians worldwide, but also with speakers of related Arabic dialects in general (Egyptian, Moroccan, Libyan ialects).
Finally and simply, this is a funny and instructive book for readers who love discovering exotic foreign languages…and who are always keen to learn new foreign languages!
After reading this book, say within two/three hours, and with some practice, you will be able to really speak and genuinely communicate in Tunisian Arabic!

CreateSpace eStore: https://www.createspace.com/4575419

Monday, July 15, 2013

Tunis International School Of Tunisian Arabic

You are from USA, Britain, Europe on a visit to Tunisia. Profit from your Tunisian stay and learn a New Language: Tunisian Arabic!

T.A lessons are provided one-on-one in friendly and relaxed environments: classrooms in your Tunisian Arabic teacher's house! in Ariana, Tunis, Bizerte.

Teachers are English teachers and translators, native speakers of TA, of course!

Please contact us through: medbtunis@gmail.com
or thru website form at: http://bnb-tunisia.webs.com/

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

فيروزيات الصباح . منوعات من أجمل ماغنت فيروز


Oral Folktale by Abdelaziz El Aroui in Tunisian Arabic (to practice listening and speaking TA)

El Aroui was an excellent storyteller who told beautiful tales on radio in Tunisia radio in the 60s and 70s. His Tunisian Arabic language was beautiful, and easy to comprehend, agreable to follow.

This tale is 'El Jorh yabra ya Sabra' (the wound can be cured O Sabra), which is in fact a Tunisian proverb? The story was adapted into English and on sale on Amazon:

 http://www.amazon.com/Four-Fantastic-Tales-From-Tunisia/dp/1490452729

Also in a bilingual English/French Edition:

http://www.amazon.com/Sabra-Lion-Malicious-Bilingual-English-French/dp/1493622412/

Four original Tunisian tales selected from the rich oral literature. Sabra and Sultan : The Starry-Eyed Girl And The Lion tells the story of an ambitious, starry-eyed young woman who lives in an isolated village in Medieval Tunisia. She lives a scant life with an unconventional husband, who is himself oppressed by The Council Of The Wise and Nobles! Sabra says 'Malicious Words' to her husband who divorces her. She flees the village mistreatment towards a divorced woman, to the forest, where she meets a lion, who strangely has eyes resembling those of a man. She lives happily with Sultan the lion, a semi-animal/semi-human life. Until one day Sultan intercepts 'Malicious Words' too!



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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Tunisian Arabic Words of French Origin!

Some TA vocabulary that is used in everyday life in Tunisia and is thouroughly integrated in Tunisian dialect is originally french ! These are borrowings of  french that have completely integrated TA decades ago. the pronunciation of these words is usually altered from the original. in the list, the TA word, the french word then the english translation:

TA - French original - English

atourail - autorail - railway
banou - bain - bath
barkoun - balcon - balcony
barwita - brouette - wheelbarrow
bisklét  - vélo ou bicyclette  - bicycle
blassa - place - spot
brikiyya - briquet - lighter
chifour - chauffeur - driver
dacourdou - d'accord - ok
fatoura - facture - bill
faillousa - veilleuse - pilot light
fraolou - fraise - strawberry
frigo - frigo - fridge
kartaba - cartable - bag/satchel

kayyés : pour dire route (caillasses) 
kounoulia : pour dire eau de cologne 
mitrou: pour dire metro 
outil : (le “l” n’est pas muet) pour dire hôtel 
raffey : pour dire réveil 
sbadri ou sbèdri : pour dire espadrilles 
talvza : pour dire télévision 
tisèf : (dans la région de Bizerte) pour dire radio (TSF : l’ancienne appellation de radio) 
zoufri : pour dire ouvriers