Arabic Restaurant Sentences You Will Actually Use
You are outside a restaurant in Amman, Cairo or Riyadh and the menu is only in Arabic writing. Everyone around you is talking too fast, the waiter is on his way to your table and you only know a word you picked up from a phrase book a number of years ago. It’s when most […]
Essential Arabic Travel Sentences for Every Traveler
You’re standing in the departure lounge with your ticket and realize that you don’t know how to ask for the gate number upon arrival. It is this moment that the majority of people feel when they are thinking about travelling to an Arabic speaking country. Can say a few greetings but the majority of the […]
Most Useful Arabic Question Sentences with Everyday Examples
Week one in an Arabic class may turn out to be quite deceptive. It may seem that everything is okay at first; you can address your teacher, introduce yourself, and read several Arabic letters. After that, your teacher poses a rather straightforward question to you, and you forget all the words you have just learned. […]
Simple Arabic Sentences Every Beginner Should Learn First
You write down a new word. By tomorrow, it’s gone. Like it was never there at all. Everyone who is learning a language faces this very barrier, and that is why basic sentences in Arabic make more sense to beginners than a random group of words. The sentence gives the word a home. It tells […]
Best Arabic Self Introduction Sentences with Examples
The first time you sit in an Arabic class or a Quran circle and someone turns to you and says “عرّف عن نفسك” (introduce yourself), the room goes quiet in your head before it goes quiet outside it. You know your own name in English just fine. In Arabic, even that one sentence suddenly feels […]
Common Arabic Greeting Sentences Every Beginner Should Know
You open up your language application and enter “hello” in the search box. You get one word in return which looks entirely different from the one that is used during a normal conversation where individuals exchange three to four lines before even getting to “how are you.” In case you tried learning Arabic greeting sentences […]
100 Essential Arabic Sentences for Everyday Conversations
Okay, so here’s a thing I keep seeing, and honestly I did it myself for a while. Someone spends weeks on the alphabet, builds up a solid little pile of vocabulary, feels pretty good about it. Then an actual Arabic speaker walks up and says “marhaban,” and their brain just goes blank. Total shutdown. I […]