Fakr bel Arabi is a series of posts aimed at helping Levantine Arabic learners to speak and sound like natives, by highlighting the little quirks of the spoken language, through the close analysis of sentences structures of everyday speech.

Say whaaaat?! (I promise it’s nothing complicated)

**Note: This is for Levantine Arabic learners who have no prior or little knowledge in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).

So welcome to the first post of Fakr bel Arabi (think in Arabic).

In this post, you will learn how to say the Levantine Arabic equivalent of

“when I was young/little”