Which Arabic should you learn? MSA, a dialect, or both? ?أنهي عربي مفروض تتعلم 

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Me an Arabic native speaker still watching the video till the end anyways cause I'm a curious human being!!👀

I want to learn both Egyptian and MSA. I've started with Egyptian and I watch movies, series, interviews to Egyptian singers, actors and actresses and soccer players, and I listen to Egyptian music. In my social media I also follow Egyptian news pages so I can be in contact with MSA through news about Egypt. While my main focus now is Egyptian Arabic I try to be in contact with MSA through news about Egypt.

Sudanese Arabic is so lovely. I Loooooooove it so much, omg I can’t even describe it! Thank you for giving this clear explanation!

Starting with MSA is the best because it’ll give you access to every single Arabic speaking country since everyone can understand you and even reply to you in MSA. Then going on to a dialect that is more understood such as Syrian or Egyptian would make sense.

As an Arabic native speaker I'd say learn MSA because it's the base. Even if speaking with it would sound weird but all Arabic speaking countries will understand you. Then, learning a dialect won't be that hard because it's only speaking. Actually many parts of different dialects are driven from the MSA. For example when Egyptian say "kuwaies" which means "good", the word came from "kaiyes" which is a MSA for "good".

I will add important and good information for everyone who wants to learn the easiest and most understandable Arabic dialects. Start learning the Egyptian dialect because it is a dialect that all Arabs understand and some of them even speak. Also, learn the Levantine dialect and you must know which countries the Levant is. They are four countries: Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan. They speak a similar dialect with a very slight difference. So you have to choose between learning one Egyptian dialect or learning the dialect of four countries, which is the Levantine. ❤.

The three main dialects are gulf, egyptian and levantine. It doesn't matter which one you learn because they can be interchanged between the dialects. Just pick one dialect and learn it well, you will pick up the rest.

بتبسط أوي لما أشوف حد مهتم باللغة العربية واللهجة المصرية كمان وانتي شكلك شطوره أوي ومثقفه ،بالتوفيق ديما 😍💕🇪🇬

I am indonesian i study alfusha and it makes me easy to understang the dialect.

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I am from Libya 🇱🇾.. and I assure you that the Saudi dialect 🇸🇦 is the dialect closest to classical Arabic and all Arabs understand it, and that if you learn it it will be very easy to deal with other Arabic dialects.

The majority of people I’ve heard talk about this tend to say learn MSA first as it’s the prototype version of Arabic and all other dialects are branches of the tree that is MSA, after becoming fluent in MSA learning other dialects tends to come relatively easy.

I am a native Arabic speaker. I agree with you to study standard Arabic. You have to start with Arabic alphabet, like any other alphabetic language. But in Arabic there are letters that arise from the deep throat and if you don't master those letters your arabic looks odd. Not only that if you learn standard Arabic then learning dialects is easy. You can also use your standard Arabic to speak to anyone in Arabic country and they will understand you and will impressed and look high at you. We are a proud nation of Arabic language. It's rich in vocabulary and structure. It's old language. If I speak to someone living 1500 years ago he will understand me and I will understand him, basically. Of course overtime some old vocabulary are not used, and new vocabulary entered the language, like any other language that changes with time. But the sentence structure has not change. A major factor is the Quran which we learn by heart and is the same Quran 1500 years ago. Another point of view is arabic nouns are either masculine or feminine. For example the sun is female and moon is male. This will affect the following words in the sentence, the verb and adjective changes slightly with the gender of the noun. For example if you say in English the sun set or moon set, in Arabic the word set when used in the verb form will change slightly when using for the sun and moon. This very crucial in Arabic, because if you don't master the gender and its use in Arabic vocabulary and sentence structure then your Arabic looks very odd. Arabic is a beautiful and poetic language. True it is difficult language but with dedication and passion to learn it then you have no problem. I have seen many people from different languages who mastered Arabic and they speak it beautifully. So again learn standard Arabic then you will also understand the Arabic culture.

I agree with you on the differences between writing and pronunciation and on choosing dialects that are easier and understandable to a greater number of people, such as Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese and Jordanian. We Egyptians find it easy to communicate and understand other dialects, unlike, unfortunately, the dialects of some Arab countries such as Morocco or Algeria.

as an egyptian who loves egyptian dialect and i think most arabs will understand you easily i still recommend modern standard arabic, here is why: 1- if you have a bad accent because some letters are hard to learn you will still be easily understood 2- it sounds more classy when foreigners speak it, because most arabs with different accents when they use it they sound different so when you sound different speaking MSA it will still be not a dead giveaway your a foreigner 3- if you are learning to read or for religious reasons MSA is a must, i recommend you learn MSA and you will understand most dialects from consuming arabic media on the way, yet you will never learn MSA from media cause it isnt used

I don't really want to learn the most widely spoken dialect, but the one that can be understood by the largest amount of other dialects (which also might be the most widely spoken). From what I hear gulf, Egyptian and Levantine can be understood by most other varieties while morrocan is hard to understand by everyone else. And everyone understands MSA and even as a foreigner people will look at you funny and wonder why you learned it

Moroccan Arabic is the coolest one and was used in Al Andalus

I'm learning both MSA and Egyptian but with a focus on Egyptian. I've been learning for around 7-8 months now, and would call myself...semi conversational i guess.

Thanks for your vídeo. En España (Spain) hablamos Romance y Árabe. Saludos

Thank you for your tips. As Gina says herself in the video, the choice depends very much on your goals. Many years ago I was trying to decide which new language to learn after filtering through several criteria. In the end there's Korean and Hebrew. I was aware that it's much easier to learn Korean considering the HUGE amount of resources you have, and yet I went for Hebrew. Why? Because a good friend of mine is a native Hebrew speaker, and it made all the difference in the world for me. The new language I'm learning ended up feeling "more at home" simply by the fact that I'm able to use it with my good friend and he ended up helping me A LOT. Now for Arabic I decided to learn Tunisian and I honestly am getting a bit tired of people saying that I should've chosen Egyptian or Levantine instead. In the end it doesn't matter that much whether a language is spoken or understood by a billion or just a million or even 100 000 people. I don't intend to communicate with millions of people after all. It's the people or culture (including the myriad of things that a culture encompasses) that are close to your heart that matters.

Thank you have helped me understand which Arabic to learn in going for Egyptian Arabic wish me luck

⚠Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians have worked in Iraq/ Libya; tens of thousands of Yemenis live in the Arab Gulf states. Tens of thousands of Sudanese live in Egypt; thousands of Maghrebans work in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, all of these Arabs live and integrate using their mutually understood Arabic dialects (without any need for translators )⚠

I only did beginners MSA course for 20 weeks, that was enough for me, and now I want to learn Egyptian dialect cause it's the oldest

Spoken English and standard English are also different, sometimes very different.

The problem is I'm much interested in countries that use different dialects, they are: Lebanon and Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Lybia. Among these countries the ones I'm interested the most are Lebanon and Syria, so I guess Levantine Arabic would be the best one for me. However, I'm much concerned with fact that it might be difficult to stick to Levantine Arabic since most of the content I'm going to find online will probably be MSA or Egyptian...

Nice video! I have a friend in Algeria. I think it would be great to be able to communicate with her in something other than English and French, which is what we use right now. That said I’m not sure if it’s just me or if the Algerian dialect seems to be much more throaty, kind of harsher. I mean, absolutely no disrespect to anybody, but it seems like there are other dialects such as Levantine that are a bit softer. I seem to have more trouble trying to re-create Algerian dialect. I wonder if anybody else sees or hears this difference and has the same troubles. Even if I pick a different dialect, maybe someday I would be able to do the Algerian dialect once my throat is more accustomed?

You're amazing Gina ,and one more thing , I like your tone in English 🌿

start learning a language by learn a dialect is like study english by learning irish or scotts or welsh dialects in order to learn English yes I did say rish or scotts or welsh not british or american, because this is how far the arabic dialects (all of them) are from the modern standard Arabic

i'm an arabic speaker and from an Arabic country and still i watched the video till the to know if my dialect will be mentioned or not

I've learnt standard arabic ; it is usefull for all arabic spoken countries...

I'm not sure if this is true or accurate but as someone who speaks both the Iraqi dialect and the Jordanian Levantine dialect I noticed that the Levantine had more similarities to the MSA and I feel like it would be easier for a beginner to learn those two together rather than learn one of the north african (like Egyptian or Morrocan) or gulf dialects. Again, I'm clueless about this but I grew up with the MSA, Iraqi, and Jordanian forms of arabic and always felt like the levant was closer to classical Arabic than the other regions. Egyptian is very playful and sounds a lot cooler than the other dialects ngl but I've always been confused why beginners choose to learn it in specific, I feel like it's a bit more difficult for foreigners. However, this might be because of the environment I grew up in. Still, I've always thought of Levantine Arabic as the simplest, easiest, and most straightforward one. Lastly, one piece of advice, if you are learning Arabic in order to speak to as many people as you want don't learn Morrocan. Honestly I love the Moroccan people theyre amazing but as an Arabic speaker who understands most if not all dialects, their's is impossible. So unless you are Morrocan or want to live in Morroco or have a weird obsession with Moroccan people, learn another dialect unless you wish to only communicate with a very specific region of people.

Good information and I plan in learning Egyptian Arabic fluently and then move into MSA.

The best thing is to learn classical Arabic, and everyone will understand you, and everyone can talk to you from all Arab countries, and you can read the Qur’an and learn a lot of religious sciences.

All Arabs understand the Syrian dialect (Damascus dialect) and the Egyptian dialect (Cairo dialect) because of the Drama or TV shows. Even people in Turkey who are from an Arabic origin watch Syrian Tv shows In the south of Iran, there is a huge area whose people speak Arabic and those also used to watch Syrian Tv shows

لو تركز بالترجمه المكتوبه حتلاحظ فيه كلمات عاميه كثير مثل( دلوقتي و عايز ) 😂 العاميه تدخل بالكتابه ولو تفتح موبايل اي واحد عربي وتشوف محادثات الواتساب حتحصل اغلب الكلام المكتوب بالعاميه صحيح لو تقراء كتاب بحصله بالفصحى بس ممكن تحصل كتابات بالعاميه

افضل اللغة العربية الفصحى بالنسبة الغة كلام الله سبحانه وتعالى و أيضا كلامه النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم و أيضا الصحابة رضي الله عنهم جميعا و أيضا كلام علماء حق

Oh girl I love your vibes so much keep it up you're doing awesome!!🔥

as an algerian i can mostly understand all dialects of other countries but they do not understand our dialect

I would definitely go for Lebanese Arabic as its the easiest and sounds very lovely

I recommend leavantine dialect 🇱🇧🇸🇾🇵🇸🇯🇴, read my comment to know why I'm not an Arabian, I'm Phoenician levantine But still a native speaker of arabic So I can tell you We all understand all the dialects So it really doesn't matter which one you'll learn I recommend leavantian dialect "cause it's the easiest and even Netflix has chosen it for dubbing

Can anyone suggest book name which consist Ancient Arabic poetry......like poems of Imru Alqais Abu layla Almuhalhil Alqama ibn Ubada Tarafa zuhayr ibn Abi sulma and Antarah ibn shaddad Al Asha

Hi Gina, i have started Arabic grammar which is very difficult but i want to learn egyptian arabic, could you please guide me how to start and what is the way to perfect it

I wish to learn it to better understand the Quran

Just wanna note , that Lebanon doesnt produce a lot of movies , the movies come out of syria and eygpt the most , and nowadays its the gulf countries and eygpt (cuz of the war in syria)

In all written languages there is a more or less big gap between the spoken and the written languages

I wish the translation text were in classical Arabic. At least it is elegant. In general, I recommend a mix of Levantine (Syrian or Jordanian) with a bit of Classical.

I am not sure about the nationality of Gina, however it is clear that she is bias towards Egyptian dialogue. I have to be honest here, if anyone want to learn Arabic then he/she should simply consider the mother Arabic, as this rule is applied to any language in the world. Then, it is easily to move to any dialogue that serve your purpose. And by the way Egyptian dialogue is far a way from mother language in term of writing!!!, and the same is applied for grammar.

The best pronunciation of Arabic in Arabic is Saudi Arabia.

Classical Arabic - Religion MSA - News Politics Levantine Arabic

Really!! We only have one Arabic (which is modern standard Arabic) other than that is a dailect.😊

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الأفضل ان يتعلم المبتدئ العربية الفصحى ، او العربية الكلاسيكية وبعد ذلك يتعلم اللهجات المحلية لأن العربية الفصحى يفهمها جميع العرب ، ويمكنك التواصل مع العرب في جميع الدول أما اللهجات المحلية فربما لا يفهمها الا اصحاب اللهجة فقط

Also the Iraqi and Yemeni and Sudanese dialects

True learn Standard and a dialect.

من الأفضل تعلم الفصحى لأن كل الدول العربية قائمة عالفصحى حتى إذا اردت قراءة كتاب باللغة العربية لا تصعب عليك خاصة القرآن الكريم سيكون صعب جدا جدا

It is not the levantine dialect it is Damascus dialect The Syrian and Egyptian dramas are the most watched dramas among Arabs but the dialect of Damasuc is closer to the formal Arabic than the Egyptian dialect the lebanase songs are well known but their linguistic content is very limited and a big part of them are in the Egyptian dialect

What's *common* to Arabic dialects ? 1- ⚠the names of *thousands of objects* : sky, door, stone, wall,, tree, sun, moon, soil, roof..etc⚠ 2- ⚠the *counting system/the names of colors, days, pronouns & some possessive pronouns* ⚠ 3- ⚠most *adjectives or their synonyms* : big, high, strong, fat, weak, full, empty ⚠ 4- ⚠ most *verbs or their synonyms* : go, sit, sleep, eat, drink, laugh 😃and hundreds of verbs⚠

I'm interested in Maltese.

im a native speaker who was brought up in the UK therefore my Arabic was (and still is) weak Im learning fus7a (MSA) for religious reasons and saudi for conversational

Im mexican and im going to Jordan for holidays! I would love to speak Arabic to locals thats why im here haha but i was kind of confused about if i was learning the dialect spoken in jordan 😅

If you want to learn arabic as a muslim learn msa

Where can I find Egyptian Arabic channels and resources?

Very well explained.

Respect Arabic is not easy at all I recognized how difficult it is as I tried to explain it We do have a quite difficult grammatical rules with exceptions However u might learn it , if only u ve the willing to do I do agree with u the easiest spoken Arabic is the Egyptian Every one will understand it but if the person is not creative one he will face a difficulty to understand the non Egyptian speaker Cus Egyptian has a really different way of pronunciation Like ج ق ء ث ذ ض د س ص Often Egyptian confused Plus vowels is real problem for the Egyptian Take for example the name مصطفي Or عايز عاوز And so on Any way well done 👍

Meo voto, M. S. A. is our literature and dialect both the same form, no distinction, but other form are only dialect.

doesn't matter, you start with written, you can't learn without reading, I am ababic native speaker, trust me🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Québec French and France's French are sometimes so different.

A really well presented video and lots of valuable information 😊 shukran

You mentioned that the Egyptian Arabic is more useful, but isn't it true that some pronounce the letters incorrect, such as Jamal with the jeem sound, they would say Gamal?

I personally feel gulf is the best to start with, emarati 🇦🇪, kuwaiti 🇰🇼 , Bahraini 🇧🇭 , saudi 🇸🇦 omani 🇴🇲 , Qatari 🇶🇦 , their dialects are almost same and easy to learn , Egyptian and Levantine dialects are bit hard

As an Arabic speaker, I definitely recommend MSA. Starting with a dialect is meaningless and Arabs can speak MSA with each other if they want to

Algerian can be considered as a separate language

I'd want to learn Yemeni dialect, but can't find much sources on it😖

I want to complete my studies in Qatar and then choose to either live in KSA or UAE, which dialect should I learn?

i am studying msa for 4 years as hobby and i am on intermediate plus level but when i hear dialect i do not understand it at all msa is not spoken at all and arabs in general only understand it , they study it in school as english so it if actually a foreign language to them so if not for religion you have not reason to study msa

Your accent is soooo cute i like your english

I just can't understand why arabs make it so difficult for non arabs to learn, actually all of arabs can understand and can speak as well the MSA they just pretend it's weird or difficult but it's not, they live with it all their lives in religion, television , news , books and many other resources... For me myself it's very easy to talk to a learner with the MSA if they desire, no need to learn a dialect IMHO....😊

I wanna learn Damascus Syria Arabic or Riyadh Saudi Arabia one

I am interested to learn Classical Arabic for religious purposes.

I’m learning Yemeni Arabic, but I would like to learn Syrian and Jordanian the most and Saudi, UAE and any gulf countries the least 🤢

I speak Aramaic and farcy

As Arabic native speaker, I'm preparing myself to make exams like " IELTS" and others, but it will be in Moroccan dialect, so no one will pass 😈😈😂

I’m surprised I don’t see Saudi (Northen Hijaz) dialect in the comments, it’s probably the most nuetral and is the closed to the purest form.

Arabic language is old, poetic, rich in vocabulary and really is beautiful. But it's not a good practical language. Language for daily use. Also not good for learning science. In science you don't need a difficult potic language. You need a simple and direct language that conveys ideas accurately and quickly. English is this sort of language and that's why it has spread globally. I find learning science in English, though I am native Arabic speaker, is easier in English than Arabic. If I want to read poetry then definitely I use Arabic.

I want to learn to speak Arabic as going to travel to Morocco. Which one can i use apart from the berber language?

I am arabic i can speak arabic iam fr morocco

Hi. I would like to study arabic because I want to visit all arabic countries, so that it means that I have to know MSA and some dialect such as Egypcian, according to you. But I do not have any idea about that. Why it cannot be possible only to study MSA and use it to comunicate to local people as well? If that is not possible because it won't let me understand locals, then if I have to study Egypcian dialect, how could I study it? By listening only people, for wxample, not need to study how to write it? When people read Modern Arabic, do they read it as a Modern Arabic or as their dialect?

تعلمي العربية واحدة هي الفصحى من كتاب العربية بين يديك

I dont want to learn the darija. But rather the arabic to communicate with the locals in Morocco. Which can i use?

I want to speak very casual Arabic like in saudi arabia Riyadh, could you please suggest me how to learn

I advise you to learn SYRIAN🇸🇾 Arabic 🤍🌷

What's your opinion if I make a course of Egyptian dialect

Everything you said is wrong. There is only one Arabic which is the MSA. It is shame to call dialects "Arabic"

Yes this is the biggest hindrance in understanding the Arabic languages. Egyptian and Levantine ARABIC looks easy but once you see on Middle east everything changed .As lots of expats live there i prefer MSA ,but learning Arabic by ownself is like hell, better spend some time in Gulf or in North Africa or hire any Tutor.Best of luck.

I am a native Arabic speaker and i need native English speaker to practise

What the Arabic of Quran called

Jordanian is the closest to the standard and everyone can understand you. standard is the written form of the language

أنا من مصر و اسم ادم و أنا أعرف English language hey

I am learning MS Arabic