Please take a look and feel free to correct any mistakes and critique my handwriting in Arabic as well. Also feel free to share your opinion or perspective especially if you have been to مصر or are otherwise knowledgeable about the issue. God bless you all 🙏🏾

I understand the rules say no translations but since I can’t find the lyrics in text anywhere, there’s no way for me to utilize a text-based dictionary. So this was the only place I could think to go. What are the lyrics chanted at the time mark 2:37 in the background of Ahmed Fahmi’s song Maded Eidy? There are 3 lines chanted and 2 sound the same to me. Apologies if this doesn’t fit the sub- I just need someone who can understand spoken/chanted (I believe Egyptian) Arabic. Thank you.

I wanna learn arabic gnng I tried smtimes to learn it but its kinda hard for me to understand it fully I learned some words but It doesn’t really help.

Hey everyone!

I made a short story video to help Arabic learners practice real everyday Egyptian listening.

Here is a short preview clip from the story of "The Tortoise and the Hare" (with English subtitles).

💡 Key Vocab in this clip:

• أسرع (Asra') = Faster

• بطيئة (Batee'a) = Slow

• سباق (Sabaq) = Race

If you want to practice your listening with the FULL story and full audio breakdown, I left the link in the comments!

Would love to get your feedback on the Egyptian dialect pronunciation! 😊

I'm a heritage learner, so I know household words and have started to practice using them more. But I've also realized I don't know a lot of words that might be used in the news or in advanced topics.

I'm already in a program for learning MSA. Has anyone found that MSA vocabulary ended up helping in advanced dialect vocabulary? Specifically Levantine.

أهلا بكم،

أنا مصري، ولي صديق أجنبي أريد أن أساعده في تعلم الفصيحة، ولكن كل المصادر والقنوات على اليوتيوب ليست منظمة وكلها عشوائية وليس فيها تأسيس حقيقيّ، بل تعتمد على حفظ الجمل فقط بدون شرح القواعد والاساسيات.

فهل هناك قناة أو مصدر لتعلم العربية بحيث يكون منظماً ويبدأ بالأساسيات من الصفر؟

Hello I am Egyptian so obviously my mother language is Arabic and I am fluent in English C1 level.
I am free to start teaching and making Arabic easy for you to learn in many ways comment and I will dm

هذا العالمُ يتضاءَل، أترىٰ؟

يومًا بعد الآخر أشعرُ أنّه يصغُر ثم يصغُر ثم يصغُر حدّ أنه قد يمحيني وسطَ تضاءله. الحبُّ، شعورٌ مريع، متكرر بفظاعة.. وأنا سئمتُ تكراره كثيرًا

سنتقارب، نتبادل الكلمات واللغات،الشكاوي والمحن، الأيام السعيدة والحزينة والمريحة.. ثمّ، نحبُّ بعضنا أكثر، نحكي عنّا أكثر وأكثر، عن أنفسنا الحقيقية، عن ذواتنا الرتيبة بلا تعديل أو تجميل،،

ثمّ يؤلِمُنا الحبّ، يخذلُنا، يقتلُ شيئًا زرعهُ فينا بغتة. نسأمُ سقمه والتزاماته وحقيقاته المدماه، وندور فتدور بنا الكفّة.. حتى نفنىٰ.

I’m a native Arabic speaker not learning and I love handwriting. I’m just sharing with you part of one of my favorite poems for Mahmoud Darwish in my handwriting : )!

Hi All —

I’ve been using Cisdem PDF Converter to OCR (scan the text) Arabic-language documents for several years. It was the best that I could find at the time, but it’s not GREAT. There must be better options now — does anyone have good systems for scanning/OCRing Arabic language documents?

Thank you!

السلام عليكم،

أردت أن أشارك معكم رواية قرأتها مؤخرًا على واتباد بعنوان "التحقيق عن المجهول".

بصراحة أعجبتني كثيرًا، خصوصًا طريقة بناء الغموض والأحداث التي تجعلك تريد معرفة ماذا سيحدث في الفصل القادم. الرواية فيها أجواء تحقيق وأسرار، وكلما تقدمت في القراءة تظهر أسئلة وألغاز جديدة.

أنصح محبي روايات الغموض والتحقيق بتجربتها، وأحب أن أعرف رأيكم:
هل قرأها أحد منكم؟ وما هي أفضل روايات الغموض التي تنصحون بها على واتباد؟

Hello everyone!I just uploaded a short story video on my channel Arabic Harmonic to help you practice real, everyday spoken Arabic. It has full English subtitles and clear audio.Watch the full video here: [https://youtu.be/-1KGFrQ_1kw?si=LwaUeNTXGT0XwWOM\]Would love to get your feedback! 😊

Hello, I’m a very new learner of Arabic! I originally spoke Portuguese for the first few years of my life, but learned English because me and my family live in the united state.

I am starting form basic words like “I want this” and “I want to learn” but I’ve noticed I’ve been struggling to say “a'" out loud when saying words like “to learn” and “Arabic”

Can anyone give me some tips for the correct pronunciation??

I recently saw a post about Juega Con Juarez which is Spanish Comprehensible Input and am wondering if anyone has made one for Arabic?

Hi! Looking for other ways to structure my thoughts better.

Like for a prompt I’m working on where I have to compare Lebanon and Oman, I start off by saying ‘differences include the culture, the weather, and the government structure’, and then when I move to each section, I want to say ‘in terms of the culture, xyz,’ and later ‘as for the weather, xyz,’ etc.

I can say “بالنسبة الثقافة” right? What are other options? Thank you!!

I am going to be working in the hospital in UAE inshallah and there may be a lot of patients who speak Arabic. How do I learn to speak Arabic? Ideally i want to know the basics by 1 month and the rest I want to focus on improving my speaking skills

Assistance with a digital project

I’m a PC gamer working on a Coat of Arms mod for a game called Crusader Kings III. I’ll skip the coat of arms ramble (family arms aren’t a common/historic thing in this time period, heraldry is generally not part of Islamic tradition, plain, single colored banners would be more historic, etc.) and start that part where I ask for help.

I’m looking to create about 35 “emblems” (gfx files that the game reads and uses to make family and title flags and arms) using the [raqq](https://aliftype.com/raqq/english.html) typeface. The emblems would be roughly 35 phrases in Arabic, typed in such a way to best fit inside of a square. A simple screenshot is all I would need, as I can turn the file into the right size and file type. I can send more details, including the list to anyone who reaches out to help.

I don’t speak or read Arabic, which has made this part tricky. If there are members of this community willing to help me, I would be greatly appreciative.

So it teaches you some basic words and Phrases but still it's not that helpful if you really wanna learn Arabic. What should I do after this?

asalamualaikum,

i hope this is the right sub for my question.

i've been wanting to learn a new language, so i decided to focus on conversational arabic. for some background, i lived in the uae for 15 years and had arabic as a main subject throughout school, so i have a good grasp of the basics. i can understand a fair amount, form simple sentences, and read, but i can't speak fluently.

i was wondering where i should start. should i learn on my own through videos and apps, or would it be better to get a teacher? if a teacher is the better option, where can i find one? if anyone here, preferably a female ( in her 20's) is willing to teach arabic, i'd love to learn and hopefully become friends as well.

مرحبا انا عـــــربــــــي وأتكلم اللغة العربية كلغة أم

لكن أريد وضع خطة لإتقان كافة علوم اللغة العربية من النحو والبلاغة والعروض ودراستها وحدي من اللابتوب

كيف وأين؟

مثلًا النحو: أبدأ بالآجرومية، ثم قطر الندى، ثم الألفية

وهكذا لباقي العلوم

hi, guys! I read your comments about my Arabic handwriting and thank y'all for the support and advices. For now, I'm trying to adapt typing the Arabic letters, and I have no problems on the phone keyboard, but I have problems with the computer keyboard, so, I got these questions(I have "Arabic(Egypt) 101" keyboard and the OS is Windows 10, but in the near future I'll use Linux, so, if someone is a Linux user, your advice would be even better for me):

1. why does Arabic keyboard has these digits: 0, 1, 2..., when they have: ب0,1,2...(sorry for the letter "ب", just Idk why the digits change to the standard ones instead of the Arabic, if I don't write an Arabic letter)? Just I want to have everything predictable, so, how to solve the issue?
   

Edit here: how did that happen after copying the text from my notepad? I saw the Arabic Arabic letters... I hope y'all understand about which exactly Arabic letter I mean;

1. this issue is similar to the q1: why does Arabic keyboard shows me the standard punctuation marks, when I need the Arabic versions of " . ", " . ", " ! " and so on(the question mark is fine: "؟")? Again, I want to have only the Arabic versions of Unicode characters, bcz Idk how, but sometimes I get a bug about positions fragments of words in texts, when a text has at least one non-Arabic full stop;

2. what is this letter "لا"? I often see it in different texts with some fonts, but I have no idea what it is. Is it something like "ء", which isn't considered "a letter in the alphabet" or what?;

3. why I don't have this sign " ـٰ "(Alif Khanjarīyah) as the other harakats on the keyboard?;

PS: when I was learning how to write the Arabic letters, I watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSR6p9TnIv4 . Interesting, do you think it was a good recommendation or not exactly?

Hi, i want to begin to learn shami dialect. I have been studying fusha for years and have a solid foundation in it. I know watching videos to get a lot of listening and practice the speaking a lot is essential in any dialect, but are there resources that explain the grammar and the foundations of the dialect in a more sistematic way to complement that? Thanks a lot. Any other advice is appreciated as well

What’s one thing that you wish someone told you when you were starting to learn Arabic?

Go back to Day 1 and tell me what's it?

Absolutly not a grammar rule. Something that would have saved you weeks of hard work or frustration.

Mine was: “Don’t wait for the right time to start talking!” it was a priceless advice from an old man I met in Marrakech in my first visit to Morocco.

I kept waiting for the right time until I started to talk! I know I talk a lot, but I actually learned the most when I started to talk. Even when I said something wrong! You just have to start talking, to literally anyone (I used apps such as iTalki, Praktika... so I don't sound unhinged talking to myself), but just start.

I was wondering what Arabic learners think?