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If you’re like me and you’re trying your best to learn Arabic well, you’d try all sorts of things.

Today was another fine example of a stunt gone wrong. I tuned into SaudiSports Channel on my pc (because I thought my local channel wasn’t showing it, and yes, lo and behold, the one that was offering had to be a Saudi channel) and while waiting for the match between Singapore and Saudi, I witnessed two grown men in a rather serious talkshow discussing on a few images…. while playing Jenga (I believe that’s what it’s called, that block game where you stack them up nicely and then remove one block at the time trying your best not to topple the whole thing). Really.

Now, the program itself is besides the point (Arabic talkshow + host questioning the guest intensely, WHILE playing Jenga = nearly panadol extra experience). After that brain-bamboozling experience was the match itself. I don’t think I did manage to prove that learning Arabic by hearing Arabic soccer commentary was good though… but I did prove that soccer is truly a universal game that breaks all boundaries haha, well, since I could understand the game anyway. (…)

Here is I think a better way to improve your Arabic. It’s called VerbAce, an Arabic to English or English to Arabic translator with word power that packs quite a punch. With its free one year trial (one year trial, when was the last time you heard that one), it’s a good download definitely. Thank you to an ustaz who forwarded me this piece of software.

You can read more about the software and download it here.

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