Hello everyone and welcome to Episode Nine! I hope you are all doing great and are ready for another episode. Thanks to all of you who sent suggestions and thoughts about the podcast via email. I’d encourage you to send more as I love hearing your feedback. Please feel free to get in touch at learnlevantine@gmail.com

Also, Ramzi still has some spaces available for conversational Arabic classes for intermediate students. His classes are ideally suited to those who can understand around 70% of the conversations in the podcast. For more information please get in touch at the same email address learnlevantine@gmail.com

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Here are some of the new words we will be hearing in today's episode:

مهاجر - Migrant

نقلت - I left / I moved

اضطراري - Forced

إمكانية الرجوع - The possibility of returning

متوفر - Available

بحكم - By virtue

ينتزع - To snatch

تبديل - Changing / Replacing

حروب - Wars

الانتماء - Belonging

مستأجر - Rented

معروض - Offered / Shown

جرعة من الحنين - A small dose of nostalgia

بأعزز - I reinforce / strengthen