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@Mosamania - What does Habibi Hayya Hayya means? It was a very popular song here
Even I learned Arabic from grade one. The Arabic teachers were abysmal. The emphasized mugging up questions and their answers. We'd just by heart them and regurgitate it all out on the exams and pass them the exams!
Is this sentence construct fine? ممكن عندك شاي دلوقتي؟
Trying to say, Will you have tea now?
So after spending 30+ years in the UAE, I've finally decided to learn some Arabic. Unlike other Arabian countries, English and Urdu have a very strong presence here and people like me just never felt the need to learn Arabic.
Of course its a massive asset, you can get by without knowing a word in Arabic as 99% of UAE's non-Arab expats do everyday, but you can't excel in the core governmental departments without knowing Arabic.
Unlike in most other countries, in UAE anything governmental is always the best. Like Government hospitals, Government Universities (not so much for schools) and even Government run organizations. They give the biggest pay checks too.
Now the CDs I got for learning are very good. The instructor is some western accent woman but she explains it very nicely. The emphasis is on spoken Arabic (I can read Arabic obviously because of the Quran) and getting you conversant really fast. Although the instructor mentions that she's teaching Egyptian Arabic, since that's understood everywhere. I don't know how true that is. She says that since the cinema is mostly Egyptian, all Arabs have been exposed to Egyptian Arabic thoroughly.
Coming from an Urdu background, I picked up a lot of the foundation things really fast like grammar rules.
So has anyone else tried to learn Arabic and what were their experiences?
@Mosamania @BLACKEAGLE @nuclearpak @Imran Khan @JonAsad
The very same meaning.
Ana Ureed is used by some gulf people. Ana Ayez is used by Egyptians. Ana Abgha is as well used by some gulf people. Jordanians say "Ana bidi"
I'll take up your suggestion on MSA.
In Dubai there's a good institute, called Eton institute, but anything in Dubai would be expensive.
I'm trying to learn a little bit from home first, then definitely will join classes.
You can expect to spend USD 400 per month. But you will not be completely fluent. That task will take years.
After Spending 30 Years in Arab country you started to learn Arabic Now....
Jordanians are the most who use standard Arabic in their dialect unlike you people, you missed up Arabic like everything else,
I prefer learning Arabic from Syrians
Aba is rarely used as far as I'm concerned, it's mostly abi used as singular feminine/masculine verb with embedded first person pronoun (I) as in (Ana).Also Aba - naba / abi - nabi
I prefer learning Arabic from Syrians
Is this sentence construct fine? ممكن عندك شاي دلوقتي؟
Trying to say, Will you have tea now?
I didn't exactly get what you are trying to say. Is it (would you like a cup of tea? or would you plz make me a cup of tea?)
Look, Egyptian Arabic as local (can be called slang Arabic) is just messed up.
Let's take this in case you meant (Can I have a cup of tea?):
ممكن عندك شاي دلوقتي؟
"عندك" means "you have", the literal translation is (Do you have tea right now?), but it's used in Egyptian dialect as (A cup of tea as an order for sth at coffee shops) it's informal though. They often say when ordering coffee for example "عندك واحد اهوة"
If you insist in learning Egyptian dialect then watching their movies will help allot, there are many amazing movies. Tell me if you're interested so I can recommend some.