Lesson 25
The World is a Small Village
العالم قرية صغيرة
Discuss globalisation, technology, and global communication in Arabic. Subordinate clauses with أَنَّ and إِنَّ enable you to express complex ideas with proper grammatical precision.
Globalisation Vocabulary
ArabicTransliterationMeaning
عَوْلَمَةʿawlamaglobalisation
تِكْنُولُوجِيَاtiknūlūjiyātechnology
تَوَاصُلtawāṣulcommunication / connection
شَبَكَةshabakanetwork / the internet
تَأْثِيرtaʾthīrinfluence / impact
لَا شَكَّ أَنَّ التِّكْنُولُوجِيَا قَرَّبَتِ الشُّعُوبَ مِنْ بَعْضِهَا
Lā shakka anna t-tiknūlūjiyā qarrabati sh-shuʿūba min baʿḍihā
There is no doubt that technology has brought peoples closer to one another.
يَرَى بَعْضُهُمْ أَنَّ الْعَوْلَمَةَ تُهَدِّدُ الْهُوِيَّاتِ الثَّقَافِيَّة
Yarā baʿḍuhum anna l-ʿawlamata tuhadidu l-huwiyyāti th-thaqāfiyya
Some see that globalisation threatens cultural identities.
- لَا شَكَّ أَنَّ: "There is no doubt that" a formal opener for asserting a position.
- أَنَّ + accusative subject: The subject of the embedded clause takes accusative أَنَّ التِّكْنُولُوجِيَا (note: a proper noun, indeclinable).
- قَرَّبَ: Form II of قَرُبَ "brought close" intensification through doubling the middle root letter.
- Islamic perspective: Technology can serve the deen spreading Islamic knowledge globally is now possible through digital means.