I understand the phrase comes from a popular free Syria song, but I’m a little confused on the difference between the two. Is it simply that the top is referring to a male and the bottom to a female?

Im pretty much a beginner, though ive practiced the letters a lot. Is this readable? Roast me kindly😊

I’m trying to write my last name correctly but my father dosent seem to understand my question

Hello everybody,

I have a question about the accusative in Arabic. I am a german speaker, so I know how to use cases.

But when do I use the accusative in Arabic?

Who wants warm bread? من يريد خبزاً ساخناً؟ Here you use the accusative

When I say: Who likes warm bread. I don‘t use it من يحب خبز ساخن؟

So, what are the rules. ( In German I use the accusative in both cases.)

Thanks a lot for an answer

Hello can anybody give me feedback on this exercise? It was a pretty simple task but I have nobody to share it with. Any comments on handwriting , grammar , syntax etc are welcomed. شكراً

Salam! I am 15 and i have starting learning arabic. I am learning with a madinah arabic book but after some research( youtube) i found out that the madinah arabic book is in fusha and i want to learn arabic so i can move to saudi. Should i stop learning fusha and learn the saudi dialect or should i continue learning fusha and learn the dialect later?

I’ve just found out about the word “‎غناتي” and that some use it to call someone “sweetheart”. Is it a universal word or you can say it to female only? If there’s a male version, tell me please

Would anyone like me to help them with Arabic and they may help me improve my English?

Not sure how to start my question but fundamentally, I use transliteration as part of my studying and it's incredibly helpful.

Here's the thing, there are things that I read that I would like to have a transliteration for and I'm wondering if the way, let's say, Google Translate transliterates is accurate or is transliteration a bit tricky?

I'm asking because I'd like to programmatically setup a transliteration application for my own personal usage, where I'll just feed it any PDF/text/etc. and have it transform it into a transliteration of Arabic.

However I don't know if transliteration is straight forward, or is there very specific theory behind it.

For instance, here's a random Arabic sentence I took from online:

سِتُّ حَقَائِقَ عَنِ البطيخ وَ ذِكْرُهُ فِي كُتُبِ الأَدَبِ

If I put it into Google Translate, this is the transliteration that comes out of it:

sitt haqayiq ean albitiykh w dhikruh fi kutub al'adab

If I put it into another website, I get this:

sitũ ḥaqāyỉqa ʿanĩ ạl̊biṭĩykẖa wa dẖik̊ruhu fī kutubi ạl̊ạ̉dabi

Another website, I get this:

sittu ḥaqā'iqa ʿani l-bṭīkh wa dhikruhu fī kutubi l-adabi

There are differences like:

"sitt" vs "sittu"

"haqayiq" vs "haqayiqa"

"albitiykh" vs "albitykha" vs "l-btikh"

"al'adab" vs "aladabi"

So before I undertake this project, I just want to make sure of what to look out for or what to know about it.

Because I'd like to have entire documents, really large documents, Romanized.

be honest i wanna get better

Hi, Would the following be correct (saying this to someone in the exact moment we are meeting for the first time): „Hayde awal mara ne7na 3am mnlte2i“

Or how would you alternatively say this is the first time we are seeing eachother?

How would you say „this is the first time I am seeing her/your daughter“

Thanks!

Hi,

A bit of background - I use Google's Wavenet Text-to-Speech to aid in my language learning (for other languages).

I have very little knowledge of Arabic as I'm just starting out.

I am giving the TTS a try for Arabic, but I'm a bit confused. This is my example sentence:

أنا آكل التفاحة

When Google pronounces this sentence, it has a -da/-ta sound at the end.

However, when I got a native Arabic speaker to pronounce this sentence, she pronounced it without this sound.

So one sounds like "Ana akulu at-tuffaha ta" and the other sounds like "Ana akulu at-tuffaha"

I asked ChatGPT and it said that the -da/-ta sound is related to formal vs informal speech. Is that right?

Please could you explain why Google gives me the "-da/-ta" pronunciation? Is there anything I could do to make it give me the other pronunciation? Or is this just something that it's not able to do properly?

The pronunciation can be heard here https://translate.google.co.uk/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%A7%20%D8%A2%D9%83%D9%84%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%AD%D8%A9.&op=translate

Thank you

Salamu ‘Alaykum, so I’ve been learning arabic for a while and I know how to read and write which I’ve learned very young in arabic classes, but I don’t understand what I read I have learned a few hundred vocab words and some grammar, and Im wondering where to continue on from here.

My goal is to learn Fus’ha and then the Egyptian dialect.

بدي شرب أو بدي اشرب؟ بدي سافر أو بدي اسافر؟ لازم قعد أو لاذم اقعد؟

Any guidance on when to use alif for present tense 1st person would be helpful. Thank you

Hi,

I want to say „We know eachother (my wife) since 10 years“

Hey, there are two learning resources which I find extremely well done and which I would like to turn into Anki-Decks.
One of them is the Diwan Baladna (colloquial jordanian/palestinian vokab) another one the 100 most used Verbs in jordanian/palestinian dialect. Obviously the volume of the two books makes it almost impossible / tedious / time consuming for me to develop these anki decks alone.

Anyone care to join in and help?

As the title says, maybe titles like mr, mrs, sir, etc

Hey y'all,
I want to give a small update on the progress of the GoDarija app development, which helps you learn Darija without fluff!
So here is what we have done:

• The GoDarija app supports 3 languages: English, French, and Spanish, and we will add more.
• Focusing on what actually matters to non-Darija speakers: daily life sentences in different situations/scenarios translated into your preferred language.
• Vocabulary lists with translations into your preferred language.
• Dark and light mode.
• Offline access: downloading any list of phrases or words in your locale language.

Still, Lots to add:

• Interactive quizzes and exercises
• Professionally words and sentences pronunciation
• Dialogues
• Cultural notes to better understand Moroccan expressions
• Progress tracking (e.g., levels, scores, streaks)
• Vocabulary flashcards with translations
• And more...

If this sounds good to you, I invite you to sign up for our waiting list so we notify you when the app is ready.

The link is in the first comment, if you can't find it here is it :

https://bit*ly/godarija

and replace * with . (dot), I think links are not allowed in this sub.

Thanks.
Yassine, mobile app dev.

أول حاجا: العربية مشي لغةي الام، فسماح لي إدا ندير غلط. اني شيرة تونسي ونتعلم الفصحى واللهجة الجزائرية (نعرف هادى عاريب بصح ما نحبش نشحرها هنايا) وخصني نتحسن العربية نتاعي. نحب نسرفان عائلتي في هاد شهر رمضان، ما يعرفوش بالي مستوى ديالي تحسن.

I'm open to speak to anyone in Arabic as long as it's girls only and that I can understand more or less what you say 😅

For those who don’t know Franco-Arabic or Arabizi is a way of writing Arabic using English letters and numbers with the numbers specifically standing in for letters that represent sounds that don’t exist in English such as:

7 for ح

3’ for غ

3 for ع

and 6 for ط among others

And I wanna know to those learning Arabic or to even just native Arabic speakers, do you guys use it too or is it just me? I’ve heard it being called “unprofessional” or that it degrades the quality of the language but I disagree in a way. I use it alot online (NEVER in writing or in formal situations) partially out of laziness cause I sometimes don’t feel like switching keyboards but also because I’m fascinated by it (especially since each Arab country has it’s own ways of writing Franco-Arabic). So what d’you guys think about it?

Can anyone provide a link to instructions on how to do this for a beginner Arabic student?

I’ve had trouble with the placement of the word أن in sentences. Could someone help me with examples?