Today, I’m Quitting My Job
This episode is one of my favourites from the Beirut, I Love You series. The Lebanese dialect is probably the one that I’m least exposed to and the hardest to grasp. Anyway, English subtitles are already included in the video – so here’s the Arabic transcript!
MarHaba y’all, I’m going to provide a few verbs to describe the sounds of 4 animals in Levantine Arabic.
What are they?
They are the Dogs, the Cats, the Birds and the Roosters.
So..let’s get started!
Hey guys!
الحب الحب is a recent Jordanian series featuring Rajae Qawas which got aired last year. Roya Comedy has uploaded snippets of each episode in its YouTube channel where you can check them out.
Short clips are sure a great way of squeezing in some listening practice into a busy schedule without being overwhelmed. The only annoying thing in the video is the background music…
Yallah, ready? Let’s go!
MarHaba!
Let’s build our vocabulary and practice listening through clips that are available on YouTube. In this post, I will provide the transcript from various parts of Episode #12, اختي [my sister] from the series رجائي كائن عدائي
The series explores the various negative behaviours/mindsets that are prevalent in society.
The title itself means “Rajae being hostile” or simply put “Rajae being a jerk” (Rajae is a famous Jordanian actor and comedian.)
I enjoyed watching the series when I first started learning Levantine Arabic. And I hope you will too!
clip starts at 1:05
So perhaps you got fed up with society and chose to go into hibernation mode. Life’s good, eh? But what happens when you choose to show your face in public again?
Here are a few things you would hear once you get out of that rock you’ve been living under…or when Tawjihi’s finally over 🙂
Ahla w Sahla to the second post on how to be an Inquisitive Arab. In this post, you’ll learn how to ask the million dollars question : “When are you getting married?”
The idea of marriage has always been an important part of Arab culture and the young adults above the age of 20 are constantly under pressure to get married.
So how do Arabs ask the question in Arabic? The answer is not a straight word for word translation of the English counterpart.
Below are 2 variations of the million dollars question:
Ahla w Sahla to the first post on How To Be An Inquisitive Arab – because we all know that most Arabs are curious people who like to ask tons and tons of questions.
Have you ever gotten in a taxi in an Arab country and sat through the journey without being interrogated by the driver? Sometimes you wonder if they even know where to draw the line…
So anyway, one of the most popular questions that Arabs love to ask is “Who do you take after? Your mom or your dad?”
However, is it even a genuine question? Most of the time, the question is asked in an attempt to judge you for your behavior/personality and attribute it to someone (i.e your parents.) Mothers say it to attribute their children’s negative behavioral traits to the fathers and vice versa.
Ahla w Sahla fiikum to another post of #How do Arabs 😉
In this post, I’m going to list out a few phrases that are useful for ending arguments.
In general, they are to mean “My words are final” and thus any replies would not be tolerated. It is also important to note that most often it is a person of a higher authority than the other who would be saying these phrases (Eg: a mother to her children)
The first phrase is…
MarHaba guys!
Recently I’ve learned a few Syrian expressions with regards to expressing doubts which are pretty funny so I figured I might as well write a post on them.
But before I do that, let me throw out some simple phrases that I’ve known previously.
Ahla w Sahla to my first ever blog post y’all 🙂 This blog is dedicated to my musings on Levantine Arabic and hopefully it will be useful for all Levantine Arabic students.
So recently, I have been watching a couple of Syrian drama series and I’m reminded of a common pattern of speech that can be heard generally on any Levantine shows when it comes to putting the blame on someone.
This phrase is:
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