PART 2 Language Review Arabic dialects reaction caribbean american reacts to different arab sounds

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]Is that the Iraqi accent?

[00:00:04]>> That's the Iraqi. Oh, that defination with Arabic dialects. This is part two.

[00:00:12]I never forgot about this.

[00:00:15]>> Thinking about learning Arabic but don't know which dialect to choose. In this video, we will break down the main Arabic dialectic, >> its usefulness, and which one to learn.

[00:00:25]from my Arabic language review video.

[00:00:28][music] >> Last week when I posted this and this is a suggestion how to learn modern standard Arabic. I got so many comments from you guys requesting me to talk about Arabic dialects.

[00:00:43]If you know Arabic, you know that knowing modern standard Arabic is not enough. You also have to learn different Arabic dialects.

[00:00:52]But which one should I learn? Which one is more difficult? Which one is easier and which one is closer to modern standard Arabic?

[00:00:59]>> What reasons do you guys have to learn Arabic? I'm curious.

[00:01:02]>> I'm Aimir Sadagi. I'm from Iran. I live in China. I've been learning Arabic for over 15 years now. It's not my mother tongue. My mother tongue is Persian, but I have been learning this language. That is probably why I look a bit Arab.

[00:01:16][laughter] A lot of you guys think that I'm Arab because I speak fluent Iraqi Arabic.

[00:01:21]Everyone thinks that I'm Arab, but that's not true. I've learned Arabic and I think I'm the right person to share with you guys how >> to learn Arabic dialects. I can speak in Iraqi dialect and Levventine dialects and I can understand all the other dialects that exist as I've traveled and lived with Arab people for a couple of years.

[00:01:44]>> Here's why the founders of Amy are betting on >> accents. So, in today's video, I'm going to explain each and every accent uh to you guys. And on my next video, I will also teach you how to learn these Arabic dialects. So, please let me know in the comments down below if you like these type of videos where I speak about my experience learning Arabic. And without further ado, let's get this video started. First up, let's talk about modern standard Arabic. First of all, why should I even learn dialects?

[00:02:13]It's because modern standard Arabic is only used in newspaper, formal speeches, books, and religious texts, which means it's not used in daily conversation.

[00:02:24]>> So when walking around Arabic countries, you will not hear modern standard Arabic.

[00:02:31]>> If you want to fully master the language and be accepted as a part of the society, you need to learn the dialect of that country. I remember at that time, >> Jesus have mercy. So, it literally just depends on which country that you're going to be um um based in basically.

[00:02:47]Jesus.

[00:02:50]Oh my gosh. So, it's like you can't like Oh my gosh. Let's say you don't really have a country. You just want to learn Arabic. Just learn Arabic, bro. Damn.

[00:03:01]What What would you choose? That sounds so complex.

[00:03:05]>> I was only 10. So my friends like people of my age they would make fun of me for speaking in standard Arabic instead of the dialect. So um it was it was hard.

[00:03:15]People would always assume that you are a foreigner. They would never ever accept you as part of their society.

[00:03:23]>> That's why I decided >> a dialect in on itself is lowkey like a second language, right? A second language of what? Well, it depends on how deep that dialect goes, bro. So, you're basically learning like Oh my gosh, two languages, bro. Yikes.

[00:03:41]Oh my gosh, bro. I'm based on the other two videos on the Arabic languages where these dialects go deeped to not only learn one Arabic dialect, but to also learn other ones. uh because if you really want to learn about the culture and if you really want to get deep uh with everything, you need to know the dialects. The first dialect that I want to explain is the beautiful Egyptian dialect.

[00:04:26]>> [laughter and gasps] >> One of my absolute favorite dialects is the Egyptian dialect. I just love it when they speak in Egyptian dialect.

[00:04:34]Egyptian Arabic is one of the most widely understood dialects. Why? because Egypt has the largest Arabic speaking population and its film and TV industry has spread the dialect across the Arab world. So it's like how Mexican is like the most understood Spanish dialect because of um its influence within like TV and stuff. Interesting. the only yo Egypt is like one of those countries where okay so I talked about in my previous video I said um a lot of the Middle East right a lot of the Middle East really and truly like is unsafe but regarding Egypt Egypt isn't like unsafe but a lot of people say like um whatchamacallit. A lot of people say that um I'm trying to find the words, man. They say that you will meet a lot of people trying to scam you, right?

[00:05:44]They'll like overcharge you and they'll have very very lots of members to try and like like finesse you. And I'm like, "Ooh, furs." A lot of people, like there's one country that I heard people talking about a lot.

[00:06:03]And they were like, "Dear God, not this country." Like, "I would never go back."

[00:06:10]It was It was Egypt.

[00:06:12]It was Yeah, it it was Egypt. I didn't really hear anyone saying this about any other like country in the Arab world. It was just like people were just like Egypt, Egypt, Egypt, Egypt. Now [snorts] the other countries um well when when she gets on that I'll talk about that.

[00:06:30]>> One of the most interesting features of this accent is that instead of pronouncing the word gimm they pronounce it uh g so instead of saying jam they say g.

[00:06:44]>> Oh that's very common.

[00:06:46]>> That's very common >> instead of jam. The next Arabic dialect is probably your favorite and also my favorite. The Leventine accent.

[00:06:58]Everyone loves countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Palestine. Free Palestine by the way, and Jordan expecting.

[00:07:15]This is like the cliche Arabic.

[00:07:18]Like when I think of someone speaking Arabic, this is what I think of. I didn't know that this was the from the um the the Leavant, I didn't know that that was that. Like I I always thought that like, you know, when I imagine an Arabic person with their cliche Arabic dialect, not like dialect, but I didn't like I didn't even know that Arabic had like different dialects. So, but this is what I would always imagine like every single Arabic person would sound like. I didn't know that it was from the Leavon. That's cool.

[00:07:55]>> Wow. This dialect is known for its melodic and soft sound. So, it goes like with bass 44. This styled is known for its melodic and soft sound. So it goes like honestly like when Lebanese people talk in Arabic I I want to laugh. I don't know. It's so it sounds so funny. It feels like they're speaking Persian because us as Persians we we also speak like this. We go like you know we also like to speak soft and to make it sound more melodic. So I think there is a huge um similarity between Persian accent and Leventine accent. So if you're Iranian maybe um Leventine accent is suitable for you because I I think it fits our mouth or jaw. I don't know. It's just easier to pronounce. It's so soft. You don't have to uh learn anything specific in order to be able to pronounce it. One of >> All right. So let's talk about the the Leavant region. Right. So cuz a lot of people were again I'm just addressing every country like why I would not go to huge country in the Middle East right now. Um the Levant here Syria is just I don't need to explain Syria. Syria cool country. Um but it's just too unstable, right? It's just too unstable. You know, every time it seems like things are getting better, something new happens, right? Uh I don't need to explain Syria.

[00:09:33]Um Lebanon again just no like no it's just too close in proximity with the um places are are in like active conflict um Palestine uh I don't need to explain that um yeah so >> the interesting features of >> that's that so I explain Egypt Syria I did Levant uh Jordan Jordan Actually, Jordan is probably the only place that I genuinely would actually consider going to. Uh many people say that Jordan is like really safe. Like nothing doesn't really happen in Jordan. If you're lucky, you'll see missiles flying over um from different places. It's quite the spectacle according to some people >> pronouncing this alphabet as they pronounce it uh e. So instead of saying they say or instead of saying they say Levventine dialects are also heavily influenced by languages such as French and English.

[00:10:41]Next accent is my accent is Iraqi accent. So I love it. I love it so much. It's the accent that I've been speaking for the last uh six or seven years and it's just beautiful. It's spoken in Iraq and Iraqi accent is uh almost the same as the Gulf accent but uh it has its own um unique words as it is highly influenced by Turkish language and Persian language which makes it quite funny.

[00:11:18]Okay.

[00:11:21]>> Oh my gosh.

[00:11:26]>> Is that the Iraqi accent?

[00:11:29]>> That's the Iraqi.

[00:11:31]>> Oh, that [laughter] definitely that is that is definitely a unique sound there.

[00:11:38][laughter] Now, let's watch a short video that I made with my Iraqi friend about similarities between Persian and Iraqi.

[00:11:50]So, these are the words that were originally Persian, but they entered the Iraqi Arabic. Let's watch it. Common words between Persian and Iraqi.

[00:12:17]One of the features of Iraqi dialect is that they have this alphabet.

[00:12:22]>> It doesn't exist in modern standard.

[00:12:24]It's interesting because I thought that Iraqi would be more influenced by the Leavant um dialects or they would have some type of similarity because Iraq is right next to um whatchamacalline right that's like Persia makes sense Persia Turkish makes sense But no, like they sound so different. Completely different from um the the Leavant dialect. Wow. That's why I was shocked. That's why I was looking at this. I was like, "Whoa, this does not sound anything like what the U Leavant dialects have to offer." Like I was genuinely thinking like, "Okay, Iraqi is definitely going to have some similarities with Leavant.

[00:13:19]is probably going to sound a bit more nice like Levantu but uh wow I'm okay I'm flabbergasted >> Arabic it is originally uh taken from Persian language uh but they use it in Iraqi dialect um so Persian alphabet is almost same as Arabic alphabet but we have these three extra alphabets ch and g and Iraqis they took ch along with g so Ch is like uh schlonich you see uh ch this alphabet is taken from Persian. So sh means >> wow wait I didn't even know that Iran writes in the same alphabet almost as our what like the same script I just learned something new today >> instead of saying >> I know Turkish used to do it Turkish used to do it >> they sayali so in Leventon dialect they say al but in Iraqi dialect they say gal but the modern form of it is kala. You see this is how different it is. Now, let's talk about >> All right, let's talk about Iraq, right?

[00:14:34]Iraq. I don't really need to explain the problem with Iraq. Iraq is pretty unstable, right? It's near conflict zones. There's always something going on there. Um, I don't really need to explain Iraq or that's a no-brainer like why I don't want to like step foot into Iraq right now. I hope things get better. Very interesting. Would love to step foot in it. Um, there's a lot of history to learn about. um love a unique culture but it's just unstable.

[00:15:04]>> Gulf Arabic. It is spoken in Arabic peninsula.

[00:15:08]>> The Gulf Arabic >> such as UAE, Qatar >> and Saudi Arabia. It has the same features as the Iraqi dialect that I just mentioned. Next, we have Moroccan dialects that >> Oh, wow. She just skipped that. Wow.

[00:15:22]Okay. So, let's talk about the Gulf countries then. Uh Saudi Arabia. I actually uh there's actually nothing wrong with Saudi Arabia actually. Um, Saudi Arabia is pretty cool.

[00:15:34]I actually like like low key I respect Saudi Arabia for how much it has developed, you know. However, there is one small thing that's holding me back from Saudi Arabia. due to its proximity with the other zones that are usually like conflict zones. Saudi Arabia sometimes can get affected by like missiles, let's say from like uh the Houthis, right? Um I think that's who Saudi Arabia is currently against right now. some I am aware that the Houthis do send missiles unfortunately into Saudi Arabia and you know right now Iran is also doing the same thing right so again very volatile Saudi Arabia I love Saudi Arabia I actually would love to go to Saudi Arabia um Saudi Arabia is sweet Saudi Arabia is really sweet definitely would love to see the holy cities and Islam in Saudi Arabia Arabia. Um just to experience that, see that experience. Um that would be awesome. Like but again those uh caveats like I said um outside forces can sometimes make the situation very complicated to where it's like is it safe to go right? You know what I mean?

[00:17:08]Um, but it's not that bad. It's not awful.

[00:17:15]It's not like compared to the other countries. really truly Saudi Arabia is like one of those situations where it's like despite what I just said, I honestly probably I could see myself still potentially like going there like like maybe like thinking about the situation and being like ah okay, you know, they have that going on but it's not like too awful. Also, you know, maybe I I could stop by. So, yeah. Saudi like Jordan is like, "Yeah, I wouldn't mind stopping by Jordan." Saudi Arabia is like, it's not like a big no. It's not like a no. Saudi Arabia is not like a I won't go there at all. No. Saudi Arabia is more like I need to just watch the situation more.

[00:18:10]and then choose the time to go where things seems to be stable for the time being before things go back being volatile because again the region is very volatile >> is spoken in Morocco and it's also similar to Algerian Libyan and Tunisian dialects it is highly influenced by Spanish and French as it was a colony before so it is almost impossible to understand this accent without having a French background Oh yeah, I hear it.

[00:18:44]Oh yeah, you hear the French.

[00:18:47]Oh my god.

[00:18:48]>> That is why a lot of native speakers of Arabic cannot understand Moroan dialects. While Algerian, Moroccan, and Tunisian accents are influenced by French and Spanish. Libyan accent is influenced by Italian language.

[00:19:00]>> Oh I forgot Italy had Libya before. Oh yeah, >> your technical words are Italian. So if you're >> Oh my gosh, guys. Italy actually influenced a place and their ways of speech. What >> the language is Italian?

[00:19:19]Maybe that's going to be easy for you.

[00:19:21]Now let's get into the interesting part.

[00:19:24]Let's see how different words are pronounced in different dialects. So let's just start with some basic conversation. Something like how are you? In Iraqi dialect it's like it's like what is your color like how are you based on your color right or if you want to sound more native you can go with in Egyptian dialect it's like 11 it's like in Gulf Arabic is the same in it's like Algerian I remember my friends saying it's like French but they use it Libyan is Finally something easy. Now what is basically same in most of the dialects in Egyptian is like it's like [laughter and gasps] that is like what what are you is like wash how to say where >> I I like that wash. It's just like what?

[00:20:29]Yeah. Yeah. That's how you say it >> in >> different Arabic dialects. So it's basically like when not when in the English one. No, like when when uh it's also pronounced like f in other dialects such as um Egyptian one. I don't know. I don't know. It's like mad in Iraqi in Egyptian in Levventine Mad in Gulf. I like how in North African dialects they add like sh at the end to make it negative. It's basically same in um Morocco in Algeria. Yeah. As you can see, the thing with Arabic dialects is that they're not only changing the accent or the way some alphabets are pronounced, they change the whole entire sentence, >> grammar and some word.

[00:21:14]>> I'm like, what the heck? I'm like, bro, it's not technically like a different language at that point.

[00:21:20]>> Could you use [music] up to >> for example, how to say now in modern standard Arabic, right? In Iraqi they say in Egyptian Arabic they say they say >> this is basically different languages bro this is literally different bro this is literally bro at that point bro just cuz when when a language right like usually languages start out as like yeah you know you have like one whole language right and then you go and you go and you get a second language by a dialect just becoming so different that it's like yeah this is how I feel about this bro >> in Gulf they say in they say how to say because in modern standard Arabic in Iraq is like in Egyptian is like alan in Gulf is like ashan alan in Leventine it's like mishan what in Moroccan is h okay these are the examples that I wanted to share to show you guys how different each accent is now let's see which one should I learn which one is easier which one is harder let's talk about it obviously when choosing to learn a certain language or even a certain accent you have to think about it deeply which one will you need it in your life and in your career which one will be useful for you. I cannot tell you which one to learn because I don't know your situation. Maybe in the future or maybe based on your career, based on your lifestyle, you will need a certain accent to learn. So you have to think about it deeply yourself. I cannot answer this question. But I can tell you which >> and that's why I was asking at the start of the video. I was like, bro, how do you decide, bro?

[00:23:20]>> Suitable for which uh situation or cases? Levventine Arabic and Egyptian Arabic are good if you are into Arabic media and you want to watch stuff in Arabic or listen to music in Arabic because a lot of Arabic movies, shows, cartoons, and dramas are either in these two accents or dubbed in these two accents. So if you love arts, Egyptian and Levventine are the best accents to learn. Gulf Arabic or Iraqi Arabic are great if you want to do business in the future. If you want to move to these countries because countries along the Persian Gulf are for business for these countries in general >> and finding opportunities. So there are a lot of opportunities for you in those countries. North African countries are amazing. Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco.

[00:24:15]These countries are amazing travel destinations. Uh you can learn.

[00:24:22]>> So I actually haven't. Okay. So Morocco is too busy dealing with that whole situation with Western Sahara.

[00:24:33]Um I haven't really heard anything about like North African countries. Really and truly. The only thing that I've heard about is like if you're a woman, you never go to Morocco alone. Like I've heard every single woman say that their experience in Morocco was not pleasant.

[00:25:01]Libya is too busy in civil war.

[00:25:06]Was it? Am I No, it was Morocco.

[00:25:10]I I'm confusing Morocco. It's either Morocco or Tunisia where I hear women say like they had a very uncomfortable I don't know which one it was, but it was one of the two. I I'm pretty sure it's Morocco. Algeria and Tunisia. I don't really hear anything about that place actually.

[00:25:34]Algeria and Tunisia might actually be chill. learn these accents if you want to travel or move there. Now, which one is easier? Which one is harder?

[00:25:44]Again, it depends on your native language. If your native language is Italian, Libyan is going to be easier.

[00:25:50]If your native language is Persian or Turkish, Iraq is going to be easier. If your native language is French, Levventine and Moroccan are going to be easier along with Tunisian and Algerian. So, it all depends on your native language and the the country that you live. But in general, if I want to if I want to answer, I would say the easiest one is probably 11.

[00:26:16]I don't know. I I just I feel it's easier than other ones. But again, it all depends on you and uh the way you study. No one can tell you which one is easier or more difficult because each person is different. Thank you so much everyone for watching today's video and do not forget to comment down below which Arabic dialect do you like to learn and which one do you find hard or easier. That was uh fun to react to.

[00:26:42]That was hella fun. Thank you for showing me that. Uh I got to find more videos on like these Arab dialects. I want to do more reaction cuz this is fun. This is this is fun. This is cool.

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