🇸🇾【Arabic video】How to learn Arabic? Conversation in Levantine Arabic (subtitles)
Hey my dear friends!
I am happy to make this video with my Syrian friend Hala who is an Arabic teacher, don't forget to watch her channel if you are interested @SpeakRealArabic :
/ speakrealarabic
Here is her website to learn Syrian dialect:
speakrealarabic.teachable.com/
In this video, I will share with you my story of learning Arabic and we will give you some tips and advice on how to learn Arabic, especially we encourage you to really open your month and speak!
00:00 Intro
01:15 Zoé's story of learning Arabic
04:35 MSA or dialects?
08:43 Which dialect is more useful?
11:15 What are the difficulties to learn Arabic?
16:26 Zoé's advice for learning Arabic
19:30 Hala's advice for learning Arabic
21:35 How does language learning influence your life?
Here is the list of resources I used to learn Arabic, you can check them out and find the one that suits your learning style:
🔴MSA (Modern Standar Arabic)
⭐Books:
📖For letters
✔️Cahier d'écriture arabe - Les bases, Abdelghani Benali, Assimil
📖For French speaker
✔️Manuel d'arabe moderne (volume1&2 ),Luc-Willy DEHEUVELS, ASIATHEQUE
✔️Méthode express Arabe, Hafid Ait-Kaki & Samia CHENIOUR, Harrap's
📖Classic MSA manuels
✔️Al-Kitaab series, Georgetown University Press
⭐Website:
✔️AlJazeera learn Arabic
learning.aljazeera.net/en
⭐KZhead channels:
✔️AlJazeera Channel قناة الجزيرة
✔️Al Jazeera Documentary الجزيرة الوثائقية
✔️AJ+ عربي
✔️فرانس 24 / FRANCE 24 Arabic
✔️Midan - ميدان
⭐Podcast
✔️AlJazeera podcast بودكاست الجزيرة
www.aljazeera.net/podcasts/
(My favorite is رموز)
🟡Egyptian dialect
✔️Kallimini Arabi Bishweesh, Samia Louis, The American University in Cairo Press
✔️Kallimini Arabi Aktar, Samia Louis, The American University in Cairo Press
✔️Kallimni Arabi Mazboot, Samia Louis, The American University in Cairo Press
✔️The Big Fat Book of Egyptian Arabic Verbs, Lingualism
🟢Levantine Arabic
✔️Levantine Arabic Verbs: Anki Flashcards, Lingualism
✔️Syrian Arabic Voices, Lingualism
⭐KZhead channels:
✔️(Different dialects) Anas Bukhash أنس بوخش
/ anasbukhash
✔️(Different dialects: Syrian & Egyptian) AJ+ كبريت
/ ajplusarabic
✔️(Levantine Arabic) AL MINBAR المنبر للإنتاج
/ @archiveetv
⭐Podcast
✔️ AL Sowt صوت
www.sowt.com/ar
✔️Sarde After Dinner - سردة
/ @sardeafterdinner
Dear friends, don't forget to check in the description the list of all the resources I used to learn Arabic. If you know any other good resources, please leave a comment and I will check and maybe add it to the list to help others. Write in comment your difficulties and questions in learning Arabic, I will make a Q&A video to answer your questions. Love you all بالتوفيق🥰
Zoe! It was a great pleasure to talk with you. Your passion of learning languages was so inspiring for me as well! ❤️
Niye bilmiyorum ama karakterinizin islama uygun olduğu düşüncesindeyim. Alçak gönüllü oluşunuz, samimi ve içten oluşunuz... İslamı araştırmanızı çok isterim. İyi günler dilerim.🌸🌸
Theres a greaaat app for absolute beginners its for childrem but it teaches u all the things beginners need to know its set like a game so really enjoyable to use i will upload tje app
🌷🌞😘🐲⭐️
@@muslimah211 True
Zoe always teaches us a very important lesson which is, make mistakes to grow and improve. With your dedication, braveness, and consistency you're an inspiration for each one of us. Thank you dear 💗😊
Thanks for making this video with me! I really like the vibe of our conversation. Your encouragement as a native Arabic speaker and teacher is significant. Many people are afraid to speak because they are afraid of making mistakes! But making mistakes is part of learning the language, which can make us progress faster. Don't be discouraged if someone makes fun of our accent or can't understand, keep working and always believe that practice makes perfect!
@@zoe.languages I totally agree! 👍 Making mistakes and learning from them is an indispensable part of language learning.
I re-discovered my desire to continue with Arabic
go go go LoL
Where are you from?
@@erturtemirbaev5207 US🥰
@@MckaylaRaines nice. Im from Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬, central Asia. What do you do? Are you a student?
@@erturtemirbaev5207 I’m actually an english teaching assistant right now in France 😇 you?
This is what I like to see. People actually learning the languages and showing it and not just making "content" in English. Zoe worked so hard good for her!
Arabic fushah is never spoken between people in the street but it is essential for everything other than communication like reading, writing, news, formal communication like in companies, just everything other than communication.. As Levant arabic dialect, we are proudly the most clear dialect in the Arab world, every arab can understand us but it is not vice-versa, we struggle to understand the west dialect (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria) like we understand about 50% of it , however if you have a friend from there to talk with him in his dialect you will learn so fast, on the other side Egyptian dialect is 95% understandable to Syrians, thanks to Egyptian series which built the great basis of us understanding Egyptian dialect. Egyptian series and movies are used to be showed in the official TV in most of the Arab countries in the past, so it became very usual for us. Lebanese, jordanians, Palestinian dialects are very close to Syrian one, I would say they are the same unless they differ alittle in the sound spoken. Iraq dialect for Syrians is same as Egyptian, means 95% understandable, while the Arabian gulf accents also understandable about 80%. Sorry for all this details but this subject never been too simple!
great thanks for the details, I knew the Levantine dialects were understood well but I didn't know how well you could nderstand others.
I'd say egyptian is the most understandable bc of media and films
Hi, I think the levantine and egyptian dialects are the widely understandable due to the media, and not because they are closer to the standard arabic (FuSha). For example, I am moroccan and I an understand all arabic dialects because of TV shows and arabic music that we acceed easily from Morocca as part of the Arab World, but I have friends that struggle with levantine dialects because they grew up in Europe and their only contact with arabic language was their Moroccan family and Moroccan channels and their Standard Arabic classes in Europe.
i am Chinese as well and I just started learning Syrian Arabic. Zoe you are very inspirational!!! 你是我的好榜样！关注了你的频道～
Oh, geat
That's very nice! Good luck! 👍
Did you learn? 🤩 How it's going
Hi, did you learn?
for me I can understand you pretty well and even enjoyed that. your Arabic sounds natural and flows well. I always have big respect for anyone learn Arabic because I know it's hard and painful. love you Zoe.
agreed
Wow, I've never seen an Asian so interested in middle eastern languages and culture. It's nice to see that anything is possible when there's a desire and passion to do something. Especially such a difficult language, very inspiring for many.
She is from Kazakhstan I think, so she's a turk
You are wrong my friend. She is from south part of China. I think you are a pan-Turkist. @@aamirkhan6692
@@aamirkhan6692 she's Chinese from china LoL
@@blinkot4181 You're right! I think she may be a Chinese Muslim based on her interest in all these Middle eastern languages and culture.
As a native speaker of Arabic i am so proud of you 🥰 and your accent is so good 👍😊 i wish you all the luck💗🖤 كمتحدثة أصلية للغة العربية (جزائرية) انا فخورة كثيرا👍 بالإضافة إلى أن لهجتك جيدة جدا أتمنى لكِ كل التوفيق
لهجتكِ ،، لكِ
@@_koko8992 شكرا على التصحيح الان أدركت ذلك أعتذر عما بدر مني 😊🖤
@@positivegirl8416 لا بأس💗💗❤️❤️❣️❣️العفو❣️❣️❤️❤️💗💗
I need an arabic book for beginners with short stories and new words and conversations too. Can you help me?
@@subhanaallah6415 if you wanna more tell me😊❤️
I just had my first class with Hala last weekend! I'm so happy to see her on your channel Zoe 😊💗
That gives me lot of encouragement!! Thanks for creating this video
Wow thank you so much! I'm conversant in MSA and this is actually quite easy to follow!
Hi Zoe, As a fluent English/Arabic speaker, I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Your tips at the end and the sense of belonging and connection to Syria was something I relate to as I learned Turkish and German (not fluent but can manage a conversation well). I feel the same but was never able to express my connection this way so true!! Best wishes. 🙏
I just discovered your channel Zoe, and I can't stop watching your videos.. thanx for your all efforts. You motivate me to improve my Arabic language💐💐
مرحب بك دوماً في سوريا زوي ❤️🇸🇾
Ohhh another Zoe Language video 🤩 Loving the content!
I actually need to listen more dialogue like this, what a nice opportunity to try my listing 🙏🏾🙏🏾.
حبيبتي انتي رائعة وجميلة ما شاء الله عليكي بجد لغتك العربية جميلة ربنا يوفقك حقيقي الفيديو رائع وفدني كتير وحقيقي عشان الواحد يتعلم اي لغة لازم يكون عنده اهتمام وشغف وحب للغة دي ولثقافتها ربنا يوفقك ، انا سعيدة إني شفت فيديوهاتك انا ندى من مصر وأتمني لكي التوفيق دائماً❤❤
شكرا كتير حبيبتي ❤️
@@zoe.languages عفواً حبيبتي أتمني أننا نشوفك بمصر ونتعرف 😊😊❤
I like your arabic accent a lot, this video really helps me thank youu😊
im so glad to have found your video it can helps motivate my will to learn the syrian language. Im a filipino married to a syrian and currently residing in syria am having a hard time communicating since mostly of them didnt speak english..
it's amazing. this content is what i need. thank you a lot!
Wow, thank you so much for this, and all the effort that goes into every one of your videos! Arabic is a language I plan to learn in the next few years and I'm so happy and thankful this video is here, it makes me want to start sooner if possible!
maybe you can start discovering a bit now😊
To reach that level of fluency in three and half years, that's a great achievement. بالتوفيق دائما
أنا سوري وهذا الفيديو يسعدني :) ما شاء الله عليك زوي، ان شاء الله دائماً من حسن لأحسن 👏👏👏
Thanks Zo, you're the best 💙
روووعة ..همتك قوية جدا ماشاءالله ..ولهجتك السورية حلوة ومفهومة .. وفرحت كتير انك جاية على سوريا . متابعك من قلب الشام . استمري وبالتوفيق❤❤
Hello zoe Nice to see you again Love your passion for learning languages
Hello Zoe! I am from Morocco, and, bcz I speak ofc Arabic, I can tell u that ur accent is rlly well! Keep going dear😊👍💖
Hala is great! I discovered her a year and a half ago, and she's a great instructor!
Thank you so much!!
Hello from Morocco 🇲🇦
Her arabic is truly impressive 👏
Your arabic is so beautiful!!!
Danke für das Video! Ich sehe und höre deinen Gesprächen immer sehr gerne und es motiviert mich immer wieder mit dem Arabisch lernen weiter zu machen! :)
Motivation ist sehr wichtig beim Sprachenlernen. Ich wünsche dir viel Erfolg und Spaß beim Arabischlernen!
Native arabic speaker here, thinking that this was recorded when you have been studying arabic for only 3 years is very very impressive because I totally acknowledge how hard arabic is and it gets even herder when you have to learn the dialect as well. I just started my Chinese learning journey a month ago and I will surely come back to this video whenever I am feeling down or discouraged because of how hard Chinese can be to remind myself that hard doesn't mean impossible. My love from Lebanon.
This video was really helpful, thank you Zoe 😍
You are welcome dear
Miss Zoe, you have revitalized my desire to continue with my Arabic studies and do them without any fear of making mistakes, thank you for that. Your message for our community is inspiring and you make us proud of being part of your channel. My best wishes for you.
Cool! Good luck!
👏👏👏👏برافو عليكي يا زوي! بتحكي كتير منيح!
Wow, such an inspiring video full of good advice! I have been learning Arabic for 1 year and I can understand basic stuff, but I always think how much there still is to learn, and I have doubts if I will ever become fluent in it, but I keep reminding myself that it is possible, and even if it takes 10 years, I will reach my goal ♥ thank you Zoe and Hala!
You will make it !
You will. I'm able to understand most of what they're saying in this video but it took me like 2 years of very inconsistent and lazy learning and like 3 months of strict daily learning to get this far but luckily I have a cousin who was raised in kuwait and a native Arabic speaker so I got the luxury to always annoy him asking for what this and that means
يعطيكي العافية حبيبت قلبي زوي شكرا لك على مساعدة الناس على تعلم لهجتي ولغتي العربية السورية
Your Arabic is amazing!!
Vidéo fantastique, vous êtes vraiment une inspiration et un encouragement !!!! 👍👏🏼
This is so gorgeous hearing a non native speaker like yourself- truly languages unite the divide between races. In Arabic, my father use to say -a language is equivalent to the value of a man. As children we did not understand how rich it is to speak another language. Thank you
Bravo Zoe, you speak good Levantine Arabic, thank you for your videos
Zoe, this is fantastic. I'm also learning Syrian Arabic and it's so encouraging to hear you speak with ease and hold a rich conversation. Thank you!
Did you learn it ?
Cool! Why did you choose this dialect in particular?
As native arabic speaker, your accent is good and everyone learning i wish you luck 😊
you speak arabic very well i hope i can learn it too😊
as arabic native speaker , the arabic teach is amazing her accent is perfect .
Awesome 👌 👏 👍 Talented and ambitious ❤
. both arabic and english captions r so helpful... thanks zoe or zhu.. hhh....
waaaw i am a levantine arabic native speaker and I assure you that she is autentic والله انك رائعة ،يعني يخرب زوقك شو شاطرة واو
Hi Zoe, you are a beautiful example for me. I have been learning levantine Arabic for 2 years but I have still a problem to understand. I can say a lot but the listening is still hard. Thanks in advance
لهجتك السورية كتيير كويسة. انا بشجعك
ماشاء الله عليكي زوي شاطرة كتير وحكيك للغة كتير حلو ممكن تعمليلنا فيديو كيف بتنظمي يومك وايمت بتدرسي يعني روتينك اليومي
Super intéressant ! Merci 😃
Great video. Thank you.
What a beautiful conversation mashallah you are so good in Arabic keep it up like that and you will be a master in Arabic language inshallah.. Salaam from a Somali sister ❤️
ان شاء الله
so Arabic will always come with common religious terms by the Muslim Arabs right??
@@pianistmanoj5780 well ye but in Arabic, Allah just means god so if you say Allah that doesn't mean your muslim like there are arabs who are non-muslims and still use mashallah and inshallah so ye.
I'm Somali too and i'm tryna learn Arabic bcs a lot of Somali people speak Arabic and my family keep pushing me to learn as well. I also learn Arabic in school although it isn't the best, i still pick up a couple of words here and there. After Arabic, i wanna learn turkish then french. Currently i speak English bcs i was born in the UK and Somali bcs its my family speak it and i live in Somaliland now.
Muchísimas gracias por tus videos! (Estoy escribiendo en español para seguir tu ejemplo y practicar el idioma que quiero aprender!) Me encanta aprender nuevo idioma, y ahora me estoy enfocando en español pero me gustaría también aprender alemán, y gracias a tus videos, también creo que me gustaría estudiar arábica. Es un idioma muy hermoso. Mirar tus videos prende mi pasión por dedicarme a estudiar estos idiomas. Te lo confeso, a veces tengo frustraciones o se bajan mis motivos porque es muy difícil aprender y aplicarlo todos los días. Mi pregunta es: ¿Cómo manejas las luchas mentales y emocionales de aprender nuevos idiomas? Estoy viviendo en Latinoamérica, y cuando tengo problemas con entender y comunicar, me siento estupida y decepcionada. También, de vez en cuando el cerebro se cansa. ¿Cómo manejas la energía, la disciplina, y los obstáculos? Muchísimas gracias otra vez, eres muy impresionante ❤️
Mashalah you are doing great I'm teaching also Arabic
As a native arabic speaker i really applause u👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 ur arabic is on point. اتمنى لك كل الحظ و التوفيق في مشوارك لدراسة اللغات ❤
ماشاء الله لغتك جميله وواضحه
Gorgeous and a genius 🙌🏼😍
رائع جدا 👍🏼♥️♥️ احببت الفديو كثيرًا
FINALLY MERCIIII🥰🥰🥰
شكرا لكي ثابري وإلى الأمام
Ma'Sha'Allah this is amazing. Please can you make more videos like this, but kindly speak slightly slower so that I can keep up and 'absorb' what you're saying. Thank you.
It's really interesting to see the tone changes between Arabic and English when you speak as Arabic provides higher tone compared to the latter. Of course language is the mirror of a culture and that what makes it beautiful. سبحان الله انت ممتاز جدا
Dear Zoe, This video was really great, you are both amazing I'd love to hear you speaking some Egyptian Arabic Your advice regarding not being afraid to make mistakes is so important this is from a poem: وَمَن لَم يَذُق مُرَّ التَعَلُّمِ ساعَةً تَذَرَّعَ ذُلَّ الجَهلِ طولَ حَياتِهِ للامام الشافعى Have a nice day
I love this poem, just wrote it down ! Thank you
So usefull
I’ve developed a lot of interest in Arabic from a linguistics standpoint because of the strong influence across languages (especially in word origins) and I’m just falling more and more in love with it the more I hear it. I want to find more connections to Arab speaking countries to really solidify a motivation to learn it since I know there are tricky elements
I’ve been trying to learn it’s such a beautiful language
Thank you so much for this you always give me power and passion to progressive. I am from Algeria and i agree with that in Algeria and morroco is difficult your video always give me the power to continue learning langauges. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖😘😘😘😘😘
Hi Zoe, I am an Arabic Native Speaker. I am a polyglot and speak six languages, also I will start learning several languages or maybe all of them, and Chinese is one of them. I am an Arabic and language teacher for foreign languages who start from level A1 to C1. I appreciate your progress in Arabic and I am so proud of you. Keep hard working.
Cool! Which languages do you speak? I'm always curious about fellow Arab polyglots 😀
@@real.syrian.arabic Arabic, English, Turkish, Azeri, Spanish and Italian
@@ahmedalshammari4246 Cool! I speak Arabic, English, French and German.
@@real.syrian.arabic Cool, bro. We can exchange languages, if you would like.
@@ahmedalshammari4246¿hablas español? ¡Eso es genial porque yo estoy aprendiendo hablar español ahora, es muy genial que hay amigos que pueden hablar muchas idiomas como ti!
Zoe, your Arabic is fantastic!! It’s really fascinating. Have you tried italki to connect with natives for conversational practice?
I like this video a lot šukran kteer🤠
كتير حلو الفيديو 🌷
انا كمان لما سمعتك تتحدثين بالعربية ، حسيت بأنك وحدة منا ، عن جد بحبك كثير ❤
Thank you❤️please vidéo sur comment faire un bon plan et les sources que t'as utilisé pour chaque langue.
I have the same feeling with my Syrian friends, they are like my sisters.
احسنت زوي انت بحكي عربي كتير منيح وانا مستعد للمساعدة في تمكين اللغة العربية لديك بقواعد وتبسيط مميز للغة العربية ان أردت
Whoaaaa your accent is just wow...
يا االله ما اعظمك وما اعظم حلمك انا احبك جدا
My wife and I will be learning Arabic after I'm B2 in Spanish (maybe 1 more year). I'm already looking forward to it! I know it will be a big challenge, but I've always wanted to learn it!
I am currently learning chinese and korean i would like you make more vids bout how to make the learning of asian languages more effective
Vous êtes impressionnante Zoe!
ماشاءالله جميل جدا انسة zoe
Vous êtes époustouflante !!!!
ما شاء الله عربيتك مضبوطة
I love your channel a lot and it is my favorite channel, but I ask you a lot. Do courses in your 7 languages
تؤبشيني محلاكي 😍😘 لهجتك السورية بتجنن💙
أنا وداد من الجزائر وقد أحببت ما تقومين به ❤❤❤
I can understand your conversation pretty well, although I never studied the Levantine dialects😃
Wow girl!! I adore you too much 👍🏻👌 I'm an Iranian girl who love to learn different languages...🌍 I started to learn a bit of Arabic language in Syrian accent a couple of years ago but not seriously just for fun ... then I tried to have fun by learning Arabic in other accents such as Iraqi (my favourite) and Maghrebi .. I understood more than half of your conversation in this video without looking at subtitle!! even though I wasn't serious enough to leaening this language at all (unfortunately) ! i undrestood 60% of this video just beacause i did try to have a conversation with Arabic people and listening to Arabic songs once a while in last couple of years ... At the end my advice for who wants to seriously learn Arabic is to not jump from one accent to the other until learning one for good .. on the other hand you will get confused for good 😀😀 and Syrain accent is super sweet and easier than other accents at the same time ( very good choice to start Arabic with)💗
You're right. I think it's better to stick with one dialect, especially at the beginning. You can learn other dialects later when you're advanced. It would be a lot easier too.
تحياتي لك زوي.. أنت تتكلمين العامية السورية بشكل جيد ..
Please make a video with your tips and resources for learning MSA 🙏 شوكرا
صراحة لغتك مفهومة جدا يعني انت قمت بمجهود جبار لكي تصلي لهذا المستوى انت الان تستطيعين التكلم مع الجميع والكل سيفهمك ،وايضا بالنسبة للهجة المغربية لا اظن انك ستجدين مشكلة بها لانك بالاصل تتكلمين اللغة الفرنسية وهي جزء من اللهجة المغربية العصرية وحتى ولو لم تتكلمي بها فالكل سيفهمك شكرا جزيلا زوي انت تعطينيني طاقة إيجابية كتيرة انت رائعة مزيد من التوفيق والنجاح الدائم ان شاء الله
Wow shes actually so good in speaking arabic
I love this video so much!!! Im Turkish and unfortunately there is a big racism against Syrians currently in Turkey, mostly because of the goverments decisions that didnt do any good for neither turkish people nor the refugees. It made me so happy to see people actually care about refugees AND arabic culture. Also Im learning arabic as well, so this helped a lot♡
Thank you 🙏
السوري ❤🇸🇾
برابو عليكي إنت رائعة 👍🌹
انا ايضا لغتي الأم العربية وانا من سورية ولكن اتحدث ايضا اللغة الألمانية و القليل من الانجليزيه وأريد أيضا أن أتعلم اللغة الفرنسية واللغة الكورية . لذلك أنا معجبة حقا بقناتك وتحدثك با اللغة العربية 🤗🤍