1.2 Greeting Phrases

In this section:

  • You will learn some phrases to greet and get to know your classmates.
  • You will learn where Arabic is spoken.

Activity (1): Role-play. Read and listen to the sample dialogue below and then practice with your classmates.


Student A SabaaH el-kheir / masaa’ el-kheir Good morning/good afternoon
Student B Sabaah in-nuur / masaa’ in-nuur Good morning/ good afternoon
Student A Ana ismii _____________ my name is ____________
Student B Ana ismii _____________ my name is ____________
Student A Ana min madiinat_______ fee ـــــــــــــــــــــ I am from city of ______ in ______
Student B Ana min madiinat_______ fee ـــــــــــــــــــــ I am from city of ______ in ______
Student A ahlan wa sahlan welcome/nice to meet you
Student B ahlan beek(m)|beekii (f) welcome/nice to meet you too

Do you know where Arabic is spoken?

Activity (2): Study the following map with your classmates, then practice pronunciation of Arab countries below.

arab countries map

Transcription Arabic Transcription Arabic
al-yaman اليمن al-kuwayt الكويت
miSr مصر al- ͨiraaq العراق
liibyaa ليبيا lubnaan لبنان
Tuunis تونس suuriyya سوريا
al-jazaa’ir الجزائر al-urdunn الأردن
al-maghrib المغرب as-sa ͨuudiyya السعودية
muuriitaanya موريتانيا al-baHrayn البحرين
as-suudaan السودان al-imaaraat الإمارات
aS-Suumaal الصومال qaTar قطر
jiibuuti جيبوتي ͨumaan عُمان
Juzurul qamar جُزر القمر filisTiin فلسطين

Key Takeaways

  • When it comes to spoken Arabic, you will encounter a variety of dialects, as you can imagine by looking at the map.
  • In this book, we will be using the Egyptian dialect when we deal with conversational tasks.

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