Update on progress Aug 2017

  So another month (closer to a month and a half ) has passed. I’ve looked over my progress from the previous month and I have to say, I feel I have made improvements. Expressing myself is becoming easier now. Although I can’t understand everything I listen to, I am able to pick out more …

Fluent in French, is it really needed?

If you ever visit Morocco, you will almost immediately see the French influence on this country. Although Morocco is an Arab country and the official language is Arabic you will see French everywhere. What I mean is that you will see signs everywhere in French. When I first visited Morocco I was surprised at how …

The word bla what does it really mean

  I have come to realize that I really like synonyms. I think it’s the fact that I can use one word for many different usages, which means there is less vocabulary to learn. This is why I really enjoy writing these types of articles.  With a small amount of vocabulary you can build many …

Apartment vs Hotel and why I choose Air BnB

When I was first started travelling, especially on my own I always expected to stay in hotels. My assumption was that hotels were just better. I never thought once of using Air BnB or “Bed and Breakfast”. For some reason when I heard the term “Bed and Breakfast” I thought of staying in some creepy …

Masculine and Feminine

For those of you who have only learned and studied English the concept of Masculine and Feminine words is a completely foreign concept. Strangely enough, many of the languages in the world use Masculine and Feminine words. When I began studying arabic this concept was introduced to me. At first it seemed daunting but by …

Added content in the Members section

There have been a lot of changes happening and there are still more to come. I apologize to my viewers for not sending more posts as I have been really busy trying to get things set up. For the members I have added a word, verb and phrase lists that members can search through some …

Feelings and expressing yourself

One of the things I am struggling with these days is expressing myself in Darija. I can say simple things like I am happy, I am tired or I am sick but these are relatively simple and don’t really express how I am feeling with these feelings, ailments etc..  I will introduce a few techniques …

9eddem what does it really mean

Sometime in the beginning of 2016 I was at the airport in Casablanca (Mohammad V) and was in line trying to transfer to another flight that would take me home to Canada. While in line one of the security guys took my passport and asked me: feen 9eddem mnin nta. In my mind I thought …

Think like an Arab

Several years back when I was starting to learn Arabic, my teacher would often say, the key to success in learning the Arabic language is to think like an Arab. He said you had to see sentences as arabs see the sentences and not as you normally see sentences. Why was that? Well he further …