Things You Wish You Knew when You Started Learning Arabic

Well inti fahme 3aly, so im guessing middle eastern accent isnt too bad for you? I know many people find egyptian easy...??

mmm im eating ma7sh/dolma bidek?

Originally Posted by VivaPalestina

Well inti fahme 3aly, so im guessing middle eastern accent isnt too bad for you? I know many people find egyptian easy...??

mmm im eating ma7sh/dolma bidek?

Yeah, the middle eastern accent is not very bad, but it's not very good .....
Egyptian? I know it a little bit from tv


what's ma7sh/dolma bidek? :$

ma7shi/dolma = stuffed vegetables??

bidek = trideyn? Do you want some?

Originally Posted by VivaPalestina

ma7shi/dolma = stuffed vegetables??

bidek = trideyn? Do you want some?

bsa7tek

oh okay, haha
I still don't know what's bidek or trideyn :$
but of course i wanna taste it

how do you say it in algerian/morrocan?
bidek/tryidiyen/tabeen/3ayza...all the accents you could ever want

Originally Posted by VivaPalestina

how do you say it in algerian/morrocan?
bidek/tryidiyen/tabeen/3ayza...all the accents you could ever want

hahaha, i still don't know. But i'm gonna ask my parents. They will absolutely now :$

im running out of accents here...tib3'een? (iraqi)

Lol yes please ask your parents and get back to me They should know what ma7shi/dolma is too, Im sure you guys do it kaman

Originally Posted by VivaPalestina

how do you say it in algerian/morrocan?
bidek/tryidiyen/tabeen/3ayza...all the accents you could ever want

I can help here I guess ,cos I looked at my notes and here it goes

Verb "want" in MA is بغى=b3'a

ex:I want to go swimming=بغيت نمشي نعوم=b3'et nemshee n3oom

or I want to buy a suit=بغيت نشري شئ كشوة=b3'et neshree she keshwa

Viva "n" before verb relates to pronoun "I "

Hope it will help a bit

Yes it does thank you

Oh is it similar to the Iraqi tab3'een? So in MA would it be, 'b3'eteen'? for do you want?

Originally Posted by VivaPalestina

Yes it does thank you

Oh is it similar to the Iraqi tab3'een? So in MA would it be, 'b3'eteen'? for do you want?

it's with the غ, not with the ع.
So it's bgh'eteen and not b3'eteen.
And yes, bgh'eteen means do you want.



btw.. i asked my mum, now i know where you were talking about :$

Originally Posted by maghrebiaa

it's with the غ, not with the ع.
So it's bgh'eteen and not b3'eteen.
And yes, bgh'eteen means do you want.



btw.. i asked my mum, now i know where you were talking about :$

Hi there,

When we write 3' it relates to letter غ
3=ع

So NOOR wrote it correctly

Oh really?
sorry, i did'nt know that :$

I only now the 3,7 and 2....

3adi dear no worries, did you see La Rosa's maghreb thread? Specially for me

Mmm there is 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 3', 6' and sometimes I've seen people use 4 too Poor 1 it must be feeling left out...

Originally Posted by bollyking

1.That in written Arabic many of the vowels are not written out. قطر =qtr =qatar. For the longest time I could not understand why people would write things like "msh" when its pronounced "mesh".

Hey just a random comment about this, I think the reason for that is because in arabic you have tashkeel, so each letter has three sounds, for instance for alf, aa, ee, oo, for ba, ba bi bo, for ta, ta ti to etc

So when you take a word like qatar, the first letter qaf is pronounced
qa
second letter 6a is pronounced
6a
third letter ra is pronounced
r

so you already have the vowels incoporated with the letters does that make sense?

Arabic distinguishes between short and longs vowels.

Short vowels are written by fat'ha , damma and kasra above the consonants

Ex : بَ بُ بِ كَتَبَ شَرِبَ نُُمرة

Long or stressed vowels are writting by fat'ha , damma and kasra above the the alif , the waw and the ya

Ex: بَاب كَاتِب كِتَاب مَكْتُوب

Originally Posted by VivaPalestina

3adi dear no worries, did you see La Rosa's maghreb thread? Specially for me

Mmm there is 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 3', 6' and sometimes I've seen people use 4 too Poor 1 it must be feeling left out...

No i did'nt see it, but i'm going search for it now. That's nice from her!
Can you place the numerals with the letters, mein fadlek? poor 1.....

Of course dear, here you go:

2 = ء sound
3 = ع
3' = غ
4 = I've only ever seen this once, its not used, ذ
5 = خ
6 = ط
6' = ظ
7 = ح
8 = ض
9 = ق

This would make it me easier to understand the numerals.
shoukrane ktir.

Originally Posted by VivaPalestina

Of course dear, here you go:

2 = ء sound
3 = ع
3' = غ
4 = I've only ever seen this once, its not used, ذ
5 = خ
6 = ط
6' = ظ
7 = ح
8 = ض
9 = ق

the 8 is also used for غ and ق
and the 9 has also been used for ص
also '9 for ض
and 7' for خ

So sometimes there is guesswork involved based on the words in front of you

Well before trying to learn arabic,there is a thing which you should know.
To can speak arabic language good you must have some1 close to you to speak speak whit him face to face.There are some letters which you must "SEE" how are pronounced.I've meet a person which isn't arab but she spend almost 20 years in a arabic country and to can pronounce "He" in some words she must rise her head up.Also is impossible to learn arabic language just form songs