Beginners Arabic Lesson 13: Conjugating سافر or He Travelled in the Past Tense with Barry Danielian

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Check out my Arabic Podcast Lesson with the phenomenal brother Barry Danielian who is a retired former trumpet player for Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band. He has toured and performed with many of the biggest names in the music industry, including Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Billy Joel, and James Taylor. He was one of New York City’s most in demand session players and arrangers, racking up hundreds of recordings with legendary producers Phil Ramone, Arif Mardin, Narada Michael Walden, and Nile Rodgers among others. In addition he also has a long list of Broadway, television and film credits to his name.

To add to that, he also proficient in Arabic! I caught him a few years ago while he was on tour in Australia to give us a short Arabic lesson on conjugating سافر or He Travelled in the past tense. In this lesson we learn the following phrases in Arabic.

He travelled
I travelled to London
We travelled to Paris
Did you travel to New York? (m)
Did you travel to New York? (f)
You travelled to the city (m/f)
You all travelled to the big mosque (m)
Did you girls travel to Sydney?
He travelled with his mother
She travelled with her mother
They didn’t travel to Australia (f-pl.)

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