Short Story: My Life on the Weekend

This short story is about the life of Lisa, who is an American living in Beirut. She talks about what she likes to do on the weekends in Lebanon.

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Each short story comes with a fully illustrated PDF with a side by side English-Arabic translation of the story. The story is written fully in amiyah (dialect) and not in Fusha, so you are learning the story as someone would speak it. We identify key vocabulary and new verbs and provide exercises for the student at the end of the story to practice them. There are also vocabulary games after the story.

Additionally, the PDF file comes with an MP3 of a native speaker reading the story, so you can practice and perfect your pronunciation.