My husband is Tunisian. I taught myself North African while we lived there lol I had the Persian alphabet as a native alphabet, that helped a bit. How cool, your advice is SPOT ON! Heavy lifting requires social native speaker conversations!!! This is excellent excellent advice.
U did such a great job learning Arabic despite the dialect you have chosen because as far as I know Arabic language is considered to be one of the hardest languages to learn.... well done bro 👏 by the way am from Oman 🇴🇲
Its impressive that you have learend it by your own (Egyptian) but learning MSA gives you a basis and all the vocabulary that you need to make sentences. I speak fusha to Egyptians and Syrians and goes perfectly fine
Nice video Brian! You’re an inspiration; I’m also an American who speaks Egyptian dialect and seeing your videos were one of the things that made me choose this as my 7th language. Keep up the great work! 🎉🎉🎉
For those considering learning the Algerian dialect, it's important to note that there isn't just one dialect. In fact, there are approximately 300 different dialects spoken in Algeria.
I learned fusha in university and I do think that helped me in the end because I went on to learn other dialects and (attempt to) read academic texts. So I say if you're shooting for a high level of proficieny/fluency you might as well learn fusha (MSA) & just know which words to swap out for dialect Edit: if you're just learning for travel or fun though, definitely pick a dialect
Most of the Muslim world know Arabic Alphabet and how to read Arabic, but we don’t understand what we reading or how to speak. This is because we have to learn Arabic Alphabet to read our holy book the Quran and read the verse during prayer. We now give translation to understand what we reading but still cannot speak as a language.
I'm Egyptian and let me tell you that you're getting kind of famous and noticeable in Egypt after being with Karim in da show, it was well produced , bro you're funny, keep it up :)
as a person who currently self studying german for anyone who wants to learn arabic do as brien said, but as an extra tip follow الدحيح or any youtuber with a useful content of course there is a lots of them and الدحيح is one of them and just click the cc button and learn that's it for any language that's easy
This was such an amazing video. You're very talented, and I appreciate the passion you have for Arabic. I'd love to hear you speak Jordanian dialect, i feel it's the most "normal" or central dialect. Like a Midwest Chicago accent.
This reminds me of German how there are different types of language you use for news or formal speaking or just casually speaking with your friends. As salaamu alaikum sending love from an Irish danish welsh man from Arizona
Since you can understand arabic I'd like to say شكرا لك على تشجيع الناس على تعلم العربية i am from Syria and I'd be delighted if i can help improving the Arabic of non arabics
I speak egyptian arabic like a native(I use it with my parents and family.) But I don't know how to read or write. I will watch your videos for reading and writing.(Your egyptian arabic accent is great.)
Great video, I think more folks learning languages should take the plunge and learn Arabic. Living in the US, I think far more folks would benefit from the language and cultural exchange that happens when you learn a foreign language.
I don't know any western who is loving Arabic language& Middle eastern people as much as Brian does, so impressive. بالتوفيق يا براين. مصري عشت في نيويورك لثمان سنوات.
I speak the yemeni dialect and i gotta say you should really learn the Egyptian dialect if you are looking to talk to people on a daily and just make conversations with natives but if you are learning it for a job or for things online, ect, i would say learn the saudi dialect!
Actually in Egypt and most of Arabic countries- people use local language for speaking ( like Egyptian Arabic ) - watch movies by Egyptian- use Simple Original Arabic in reading and writing and official Use - Use Pure Original Arabic for hearing Quran and Islamic Lessons Actually things are more complicated than that but I tried to simplify it.
It's funny how it was a little weird hearing him speaking English, haha! Great video with great pieces of advice. Actually, they can be applied not only to learn Arabic but to any other language!
im glad you mentioned sarde! would also recommend the “manbet” podcast for levantine arabic. it tackles various political, history, social and art topics and it’s very entertaining. it’s my personal favorite (as an arab myself lol)
I try to have two sessions per week- so two hours of conversation per week. And then I review in my free time and listen to podcasts as much as possible. Good luck!
@@BrianWilesLanguages This is also what I try to do! I'm getting ready to travel to Egypt very soon, so I've tried to increase to three a week, but that's the point where it seems to become more difficult to manage on top of a full time job, going to the gym, and other obligations for me.
Hey Brian Willis, im learning Arabic too. Also, you look like a spitting image of the character Miguel Alvarez in 90's-2000's prison drama Oz , for real !
Many Arabic learners learn how to speak in MSA and this would be functional in many situations such as public speaking or in TV interviews and whatnot.
Thank you for another video 🙏🏻 but I guess most of the Arabs they speak and fathom Fusha cause it's mandatory to study MSA at school. I am from Azerbaijan and currently live in NYC, been learning Fusha for a while, dont have any problems having conversations with an Arab
I am a moroccan natice speaker, I like your videos, but i just wanna say that speaking with what you called MSA doesn't sound weird for us arabs, but thaks for this amazing video
Thank you for this practical guide! I've been trying to learn bit by bit for over 20 years now. I would like to learn fusHa as I want to understand Quran and Islamic texts better, would love to know of any podcast resources for that. Shukran!
I like you Brian you are unique person because you have knowledge 😉 and experiences except mostly Americans because the Americans not know much about outer worlds 👋🇸🇦
There are 22 Arabic states, but there are only fore dialects whose the forth is split in two variants. North African or Maghreb one, Egyptian, Guolf, and The firth: Leventine with Jordan Iraqi.
Bro. I learned Fusha in about a year. My path will not work for Non-Muslims though. The first thing is: GET AN MP3 PLAYER. Download interesting Arabic content and put it on the player. Now listen, whenever you are free, and try to figure out what you can. You will not have to review a learned word if you hear it 40 times a day in the proper context. In the beginning, you will not understand anything. That is okay. I did not even know where the words began or ended. Then it is important, to learn the everyday language in the beginning while sticking to a Quran routine. There are good courses to teach the bayna yadayk books from Arabic Students Gate. If one learns on his own it is useful to invest some time into studying at least medina book 1 with the course of brother Asif on youtube. And try to find people that speak it as well (nice Arabs) if you can. It is very helpful, but not a must though. Syrians, especially Syrian uncles and for women aunties are very open and welcoming. Especially in the west, you will also be helping them by sitting and speaking with them. My Arabic was good enough to marry a Syrian woman and now we live in Egypt, dialect is very easily picked up once one speaks good Fusha Arabic.
In Israel students do not like to learn Arabic, for political reasons, and also because they do not like the accent. They do not know that thousands of years ago, the Hebrew accent was like Arabic. The Egyptian dialect is the most beautiful and I like it. I learned Arabic and I understand.
The best way to learn any language is to actually speak it. How to integrate immigrants and refugees, you surrounded them with locals and native speakers, that way they become fluent faster. If they only hang with their own and seldom speak or interact with native speakers they won’t ever become fluent. Doesn’t have to be immigrants or refugees of course, but a more realistic example, as that’s a more likely scenario in having to learn a new language as an adult.
I disagree with you! As a foreigner you should absolutely learn MSA and the reason for that is you can communicate with any Arab in any country because when they hear you speak they also speak MSA and you can have a smooth talk in any subject. I'm Palestinain btw.
Hijazi (Arabian peninsulas west coast) Arabic is neutral and a bit closer to the word roots and grammar to MSA without sounding weird (which is a spot on insight btw). It's interested that Alexa now speaks Arabic as the central region of Saudi Arabia - which you might want to learn if you're learning Arabic while doing business. Egyption and Levantine are good too. Just don't pick other North African countries where it has french mixed.
Does anyone know where I can get the audio to Kallimni Arabi Bishweesh? It used to be on YT but not anymore, and the Soundcloud link above doesn't work. Amazing vid! I live in Egypt now so no excuse 🐫
Brian! I have been watching your comedy videos for about 6 months and this video popped up in my recommendation just now. I'm stoked to watch the rest! My fiance is Egyptian and I'm going over early 2024. Just wondering... Do you give private lessons?
Hello and thank you! I don’t give private lessons at the moment- but I might try to set up a teaching/coaching program in the future? I’ll try to keep everybody posted!
I am a native Arabic speaker but I really need to improve my Arabic vocabulary. I feel more fluent in English compared to Arabic lol. I wonder how i can improve my Quranic arabic vocab especially
I tried to learn Arabic in 2022, but i can't, because i was confused with other dialects . But now i want to try it again , If anyone have an advice for learn it , i'll be graceful. Peace 🙏🇸🇦
yeah its kinda hard to learn it,especially since there are so many different dialects but the best way to learn it is to try talking to someone who speaks arabic,like start with the basics you know some words and sentences n you should use them with someone who speaks arabic and so on. or just simply go to an arabic learning course
for example, you can say "hello" in multiple ways depending on the person you're talking to like "assalaam 3alaykum" "ahlan" “marhabaan" "masee6" see? its kinda hard for some people to learn,so i suggest you just make arabic-speaking friends and just start learning by talking to them and so on lol
I am Hungarian and I can read and write Arabic, I can speak Egyptian dialect the most, some fus7a words, some darija dialect, but unfortunately non of them is learned from a teacher. If I travel to an Arabic country, I can talk with them easy, but I would like to speak perfect. Unfortunately I think I cant study fusha because my Egyptian dialect is stronger :( so I dont know what to do, because Maghribi people can't understand Egyptian 😅
As an Arab we learn fusha as students local dialect is not a means of learning a language. Same as in English or other languages one learns the academic principles then dialects afterwards
