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Cairene Arabic; What? Why? How? Posted by on Jan 5, 2016

   Ahlan, Arabic lovers! In the post entitled The Arabic Headache; Dialect!, we discussed the differences between Classical Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic and other Arabic dialects. We were introduced to a brief history of the Arabic language and how it developed into so many languages or dialects. We were also introduced to the main differences…

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Arabic! Which Arabic? Posted by on Dec 30, 2015

   Ahlan, Arabic lovers! Today, I am going to continue my previous discussion about the Arabic language phenomenon that may have given a lot of people a headache (check my previous post The Arabic Headache; Dialect!). I will try to be brief and accurate as far as I can especially when there is no such…

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The Arabic Headache; Dialect! Posted by on Dec 23, 2015

   Ahlan, Arabic lovers! Today, we are going to discuss a very common problem for non-Arabic natives. Yes, it is that dialect headache! Which Arabic variety should foreigners learn; Classical Arabic (CA), Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) (Al-Fus’ha) or Colloquial Arabic with its various dialects (Al-Am’iyah)? Unfortunately, there is no one correct answer. Deciding on one…

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Colloquials of Arabic Posted by on Jun 13, 2010

In one of my earliest posts I discussed the different varieties of Arabic and explained that there are two main varieties Standard Arabic (فصحى), i.e. the written variety which is sometimes spoken in reading the news or religious speeches, etc; and colloquial Arabic (عامية) which is the spoken dialect. In this post, I discuss colloquial…

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