Levantine Arabic Resources (from a Jordanian dialect learner) + Should I Learn MSA or Colloquial?
Marhaba! Today’s video will be set up like this. First I’m going to do an intro about my experiences with learning Arabic, specifically the confusion over learning MSA or dialect first. Feel free to skip ahead to the good stuff, then I’ll talk about KZread, Apps, Podcasts, TV shows, Websites, Music, and finally e-Books. Over the years I’ve tried to collect free online resources in the Jordanian dialect however there aren’t many! So this is a general list of free Levantine Arabic resources.
#arabic #amman #jordanianarabic
KZread:
1. Learn Levantine Arabic / learnlevantinearabic
2. house of Levantine (stories) / / borhanalzibi
Podcasts:
The Arabic we speak:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...
Levantine Arabic made easier:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...
Learn Levantine with alibi
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...
Sowt:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...
Tv shows:
1. Female (translations)
• في ميل الموسم الأول
1. My American neighbour (translations) only 3 mins
• الجار قبل الدار الموسم...
1. Alhub alhub
• الحب الحب
Khateera channel (subs)
/ khateera
Websites:
Transparent language blog
blogs.transparent.com/arabic/...
Speaking Arabic by J. Elihay is a book but a guy called Adnan Mukhtar has turned it into a quizlet and anki class for self study because it was transliterated.
ankiweb.net/shared/info/15997591
docs.google.com/document/d/e/...
Book (can be found on some sharing sites)
Colloquial Arabic (Levantine) routlege by Mohammed almasri
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B014KS...
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Omg I’ve freaking out bc I’ve always wanted a video that talks about all of this
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
😁😁
This is SO incredibly helpful! Thank you!
Thank you for the playlist!
you're amazing, thank you for all these! ♥️
What a great resource! Thank you for doing the work and making all this available!
God bless you for making this video! So so so helpful
omg how cool, I was looking for a video like that for so long! Your tips are amazing, thanks so much!
Thank you for the resources and the thorough work with the links in the description! A very helpful video!
Thank you! The information is really helpful
As Jordanian , the quality of information you present really will be helpfully and useful for Arabic students, happier to recommend your channel to many friends 😊
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@tubz
6 ай бұрын
@@MummyinAmman1
Thank you so much for this! I just started to learn Levantine and this is so helpful
Yes a website/blog!!! :) thanks, this was so helpful!!
Thank you so much for this thoughtful, comprehensive advice. I have shared with my language-learning group.
Shukran kteer for finally straightening the background frames
Yes I would love that. Thanks so much for the resources. شكرا
what a marvellous video! shukran kteeeerr!
Can't thank you enough for these resources ❤🥺
Thumbs up for the efforts you put in creating this content! 👍🏻
Thank you sooooo much! That is the video that I was looking for for months!!
I just wanted to thank you again I have subbed to all of your KZread suggestions
Wow! This info will be so useful in the future thank you!
Thank you for this information it was extremely helpful. It's great that I can use the free resources on KZread and the App.
Masha Allah great video!
This video is very useful, thank you so much!
Omg this is sooooo useful ! I wish i found your video earlier. I've been learning arabic for 1 month plus.. been struggling finding some nice arabic levantine videos on youtube. Thanks for sharing all these 🥰😊
Thank you! as a beginner Arabic teacher, I find your video very helpful! I'll recommend this to my friends and students
Very helpful adn high quality information.
I've discovered your channel a while ago, and I'm a Jordanian, but I love watching your videos to learn tips from you that I can reapply when teaching Arabic to my friends that are trying to learn it! Also, your handwriting is so good! Best of luck! 👏🏻🖤
Keep up the good work .
This is the first video of yours I have watched! I would love to see a website like you mentioned :) I entirely agree that it is super hard to find a lot of Jordanian resources out there, especially since I've hit the "intermediate" level. You've got yourself a new subscriber! Cheers
I would like to thank you a lot , that was really helpful for me.
Great sources thank you
I love your immersion in our language, dialects and traditions ❤️ You explain it very well, salute from your Jordanian-Palestinian sister ✋🏼🥰
Love your channel very informative Keep it up
I'm currently learning how to write in Arabic and I should say that wouaw, your handwriten Arabic is incredibly beautiful, insh'aa'allah I'll be able to write so well someday!
This is amazing! I tried learning 3amiyya 5 or so years ago but gave up because of the lack of (affordable) resources. Happy to see things have changed
This video is amazing!!! Thank you so much!!! ماشاء الله ♥️♥️♥️
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
You’re welcome! ✨
I would recommend Arabic clearly, one of the best youtube channels so far.
Mashallah sister! You've hit the nail on the head! It is a true struggle to find a Jordanian dialect! Being Muslim I completely want to learn the quranic Arabic however I most definitely want to learn the Jordanian dialect because of my personal situation I've spent a few years of living around the Jordanian dialect but not finding resources for learning it. الحمد لله I have come across your video! جزاك الله خيرا اختي
Bravo. .you are wonderful sister
thank you rachel for these tipps, especially the music. i study fusha at university and want to visit jordan as soon as possible ♡
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
You’re welcome! Hopefully you can visit soon :)
thankyouuu I need this!
This video is a godsend! 😍 I'm learning Levantine Arabic, but I was getting really frustrated not finding any resources in that dialect (everything I came across online was mostly in MSA). While I did buy "Speaking Arabic" by J. Elihay, I was getting quite bored with the exercises in the books. Plus, since all the Arabic dialogues in Elihay's books that I bought are written in Hebrew letters (I'm from Israel, by the way), I couldn't recognize the same words I learned when I encountered them written in Arabic, so thank you for making this video 😁
You have a nice arabic hand writing. It is better than many Arabic native speaker's
I love your videos so much
Shukran Sister, very good video 👌👍
Yes please! Totally need it need need need a website with a list of resources please! So many thanks to you!
so helpful!
Thank you useful advise, currently following lavantine videos on you tube definely will check on th others as well, i live in jordan and really keen in learning arabic.
Feel like I've stumbled into a goldmine here. Please do more of these kind of videos!
Amazing🔥❤️
حظاً موفقا Good luck 🌹🇯🇴
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
This is very helpful 👍👍🥳🥳🥳
Definitely advocating for a blog/website to link to your resources and research! I currently have a tandem partner and I am struggling a lot with finding good resources for her. Bless you Umm Adham :)
This video is a treasure, even tho I'm an Arab myself never been abroad lol (but I taught some foreigners Arabic, so relatable)
Awesome
Best video ever
Dear Rachel. I love your videos so much. You are so special. God bless you and your family. I am an English teacher and I am in love with British English; I like listening to your beautiful British accent. This is real English 😉
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for your support ☺️
Very clear and well organized information thanks.👍 I agree with you that if someone is planning to live in a specific country they should first learn the dialect of that country, but also MSA is very important part for reading and studying. Anyway once you start with one you will find your way through the other one for sure. dialects and MSA is two sides of one language. I always follow your videos and I like your way of introducing life in Jordan.🌸
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
You’re right! This year I started learning some MSA and my sentence structure in ammiyeh improved hugely as a result ✨
@michelbolsey6228
3 жыл бұрын
I think you are right, Manar. Often, too much importance is given to the difference between MSA and dialect when they are really 2 parts of one language. Other languages have similar situations. French and English have formal registers which can be very different from what you'll hear on the street, for example. But the registers are all part of a single language. Without MSA you won't REALLY know Arabic's structure, grammar and even vocabulary!
@LearnArabicwithManar
3 жыл бұрын
@@MummyinAmman good luck you😊
@LearnArabicwithManar
3 жыл бұрын
👍
@niklas1914
2 жыл бұрын
@@MummyinAmman Is it hard to start learn MSA after dialect? Or is it easier because you have a understanding / vocabulary already?
Thanks a lot!
Your arabic handwriting is soooo beautiful 😍😍 Mashallah❤️👍 مأحلااااه خطك حلو .. الى الامام ❤️
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! 🙏
Thanks for the video! I’m learning Jordanian dialect from my girlfriend who lives in Amman, I’ve had so much trouble trying to find any help on KZread with their dialect.
Thank you so much ! :) Also want to learn speak this arabic dialect
Yes to a website organizing the tool kit for newly arrived expats to Jordan!
YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THIS HELPED ME THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! THIS IS Q U A L I T Y C O N T E N T.
I've been looking for sources for a long time and I couldn't find most of these! It's so good!! I also recommend "The 101 most used verbs in spoken Arabic: Jordanian&Palestinian" by Tiedemann, i guess you already know it :)
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
Glad it’s helpful :) I’ve heard of that book many times and need to get a copy!
You have common sense and sense of humor, خفيفه الظل ، as the Chinese say: 加油
As someone who's learning a language, I can tell how hard it was to find all these resources so good job honestly.. A website would be amazing and very helpful for foreigners who live in Jordan.. As a Jordanian myself, it's very interesting to know your perspective on things, if you have time then definitely go for it 👍
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the support, Mais! ❤️
@m_aa
3 жыл бұрын
@@MummyinAmman no need! Keep it up 👍💜
There is a language school in Amman called Yaffa Arabic School they teach MSA and the jordanian/ Palestinian dialect. If you are living abroad they offer also lessons through skype. I'm taking classes since 8 months and its very good ans pushi so you will learn a lot of vocabs in a short time and also speak and write to keep practicing.
Seriously woman, how come your Arabic handwriting is already better than mine and I've been learning Arabic literally my whole life? xD you should think about learning arabic calligraphy if you're intrested, such a majestic art
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
It’s one thing to write well but if you can’t speak it... 🤣 maybe once I can hold down a conversation I’ll think about calligraphy 😄
Nice content! Thank you for spreading the culture that very kind of you! And also, the most famous Jordanian KZreadr his name is ahmed aburob, his channel has been recently growing quite a lot!
I love your videoooooooos
@danielaljuneidi8320
3 жыл бұрын
@@ayyubvernon1557 😄😄😄😄 nice one
you have a very beautiful arabic handwriting
Thank you so much! I’m learning Palestinian/Jordanian Arabic because I’m half Palestinian.
You have a good handwriting by the way 👍
I love J Elihay. I have the 5 books including his olive tree dictionary. Super invaluable.
Do you recommend learning the alphabet first?! I am so happy that you are making these videos. I have been trying to learn Jordanian Arabic for so long! Thank you for sharing your insight and media!
I recommend the (comprehension based approach ) which not common here. Listening is the key
Very Very Informative, I have recently started learning Arabic at ALC UAE, and they have been teaching Livantine Arabic.
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
Wishing you all the best with your language journey!
@oneworldtwowheels7747
3 жыл бұрын
@@MummyinAmman thank you so much
Youre stunning 😍 ✨
The best is going for standard because it is easy to switch to others from there rather than going from accent to accent. Also many dialects are faseeh or fus'ha but what you are referring to is a specific dialect that has become a standard
I am Jordanian and I speak excellent Arabic, but I will take the advantage of those apps and websites and KZread channels to improve my English, I mean I will use them in the opposite direction, I think this will be beneficial.thank you.
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
That’s great, and a good idea!
I have been learning MSA, and when I came to jordan it seemed like nobody understood me? Lol I was sooo embarrassed but people were so kind. They were proud of me for trying👍 Its easiest to learn arabic with a one -on-one private teacher(in my opinion).
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
I do love how supportive Jordanians are when we try to speak!
@JennyLynnMinistries
3 жыл бұрын
@@MummyinAmman totally, just love Jordan so much❤
@abedobeidat6101
3 жыл бұрын
I'm sure everyone understood you :D Standard Arabic is the written Arabic that Mainly used for books, knowledge, educational matters. But also you can find it in plays, news, cartoon, history movies, Speeches, poems, etc. people not used to to speak with it in day to day life. It is just weird. It is like someone speaks like Shakespeare, it doesn't feel right, right?
@JennyLynnMinistries
3 жыл бұрын
@@abedobeidat6101 lol yes I understand, but that's what they teach you in Canada(modern standard arabic), and then you travel and find out its sort of wrong😬🤣🤔😁
@ubblegubble
3 жыл бұрын
You know, I've seen this when I was learning Chinese that is tonal and people used to have lots of trouble with pronunciation - the policy of the school was to change teachers every semester not to let them get used to students' terrible accents ^_- I'd dare to guess it can work with Arabic too - more different resources and tutors instead of one
ما شاء الله خطيك حلو ما شاء الله
1st: You're Gorgeous like always 😍 2nd: I'm a speech and language pathologist, and you are talking about the differences between "Fusha, Ameyyeh" with a very good description, because we have cards that help children developed their language, and because most of them are in " Fusha" I don't use them, I only have the picture and actually sometimes I ask the parents about some things "what do you call these?" because it's different naming in different cities even not only countries (Ex: Amman, Jarash, Karak. etc.. )
To answer your question: If you have the time and resources to make a website with these informations it would be fantastic. I am half Palestinian and half Danish so your videos really hits home for me and some of them, like this video, have new information that would be easier to find on a website/blog. Most of my family lives in Amman while I live in Denmark with the closest family members so your videos always reminds me of being back in Amman :)
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
That’s good to know! And I’m glad the videos hit home 😀
@ryad1281
3 жыл бұрын
I am Palestinian American, but my grandparents on my mom side are Danish!
@omarisacshowiki3786
3 жыл бұрын
@@ryad1281 Nice! Denmark is a pretty nice country if you should ever visit your ancestors homeland 😊
@ryad1281
3 жыл бұрын
@@omarisacshowiki3786 yes that would be fantastic im sure I will someday inshallah
I’d like to also add PPTT podcast, a Jordanian podcast available on youtube (recorded live), spotify, apple podcasts and castbox.. and its also interesting 😬
I gave like cuz all the efforts that you are doing it in order to speak Arabic and understanding our culture and Arabic Islamic values
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
thank you for all this resources - it's huge )) there is also arabicpod.net - colloquial arabic in short dialogues
like before anything 🤩
@kareemaafteraddiction8965
3 жыл бұрын
Hussam Alhinaty yes! Me too
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you guys!!
I Like the video immediately then watch it 😂👏🏼
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
Hahaha thank you Hamza!
@h1-xgamerr338
3 жыл бұрын
MummyinAmman You are welcome Rachel and appreciate your reply 👏🏼
Thanks for your useful information . What about simple and easy arabic podcast ?
Learn Arabic with Maha , she teaches palestian arabic too, and other arabic as well
Arabic Dictionary by N. Awde & K. Smith. It's the only dictionary I have found that writes the words in booth Arabic script and Latin letters (it is Fosha though, but still)
And... my greetings to lovely Adham, Hahem and your husband.
I enjoy your vlogs a lot, so Keep it up. Youve yet to do a video about your journy to ISLAM as it is common with new muslims. I know it could be personal and youd like to keep it that way but I am sure it will help others a lot.
@MummyinAmman
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your support! Honestly I’ve avoided talking about it too much because I’m so new to it but inshallah one day I will 😊
Arabiclearly levantine by Mr Ibrahim. Give it a go
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Lingualism.com has really good resources for different dialects of Arabic! As well as helpful resources for the Levantine dialect. I have seen more books focused on the Syrian dialect but it has been extremely helpful when there is so little to be found, especially for learners like me who are no longer very beginner but not yet a high intermediate. Globetrot Arabic as a KZread channel concentrates more on Lebanese while Learn Arabic with maha concentrates more on the palestinian one!
@rashidah9307
3 жыл бұрын
And Lingualism just came out with a new book with Palestinian verb conjugations!