In English personal pronouns are separate words. Me, you, him, her, us, them are all words that exist on their own. To provide more clarity let’s look at the following sentence Me and you. Both personal pronouns exist and are visible to see. In Darija, there are personal pronouns but they usually attach to words, …
Author archives: Hamza Ally
Conjugating with Rasu
I wanted to write a very short post with conjugation of a word. I hope that this serves as a reference to those wishing to conjugate words. Conjugation is similar to Arabic where the pronoun is attached to the end of the noun. With enough practice, this becomes very easy to understand and implement. The …
Frustrations in my journey
When I started this journey, I knew that this would take a lot of work. I knew that I had to put the hours in to be able to learn darija. I told myself last year that I will be studying everyday and should be at least at an immediate level within a year. This …
Wella – what does it really mean?
Here we go again with another darija word. Today we will look at the word “wella”. To be honest, I don’t recall hearing this word in conversation but this could be that my listening needs to improve (which I am trying to do). The reason why I am writing about this word is because I …
Rfisa – what the heck am I eating?
Before I was married, I would spend a lot of time speaking to my soon to be wife about her and her culture. Although I knew many things about Morocco I was always interested in learning more. A lot of times we would speak about food. Having travelled many times to Morocco I thought I …
Think and its many forms
Hi everyone, i’m back with another article. Hopefully I can get back to writing these more often. During my time in Morocco, while trying to speak to people I had this habit of thinking of a sentence in English and trying to translate it word for word into darija and then trying to adjust it …
I can’t believe I got sick again!
Once again, I was sick for a long time. I don’t get it. The last time I got sick like this was in 2012. 6 years ago. I am a healthy person, usually I only eat bad 1 or 2 times a week and I exercise often (maybe not as much as I use to). …
Moroccan Marriage Process Part 2
If you read Part 1 of this article you would see the documents required to bring to Morocco for marriage for the Moroccan marriage. Now let’s continue assuming you have brought the appropriate documents. I will try to explain the quickest and simplest way to complete this process. This is also assuming your embassy is …
Moroccan Marriage Process Part 1
When I decided to get married to a moroccan girl, I started looking online for resources on the procedure of the Moroccan marriage. I was surprised at how complex the process is and how much documents were needed for this process. It can be overwhelming and I thought I should write an article with the …
Update 2018
Well it’s been awhile since I last posted here. I set this goal last year to have a 5 min conversation and I would like to give you an update on this and other things. First I would like to explain why I have been away for so long. The first thing was that …