Lesson 1: Important Phrases in Beirut / Rania & Rima Teach Lebanese Arabic [Pilot]
Summer 2015 Arabic Classes in Beirut Lebanon $8 per hour
April 29, 2015قعد is this week’s Lebanese Arabic Word of the Week
May 20, 2015ALPS Beirut is pleased to announce our pilot YouTube episode – Rania & Rima Teach Lebanese Arabic. We hope this will be a fun and easy way for former students to keep learning Arabic wherever they are and for those interested in studying Lebanese Arabic to get started.
This is just the pilot and we have so many ideas for new, helpful episodes, but first we need your opinion. Watch the pilot and if you want to see more, please take a moment to like or share it.
The Script:
Navigation – getting around Beirut in Arabic
3mol ma3ruuf // Excuse me
kiif fiiny ruu7 3a down town // How can I get to Downtown?
binzal hown law sama7it // I’ll get out (of the service/taxi) here please
w tfaDDal, howl alfeyn 1ira // and here you go, this is 2,000 lira
When you meet someone
mar7aba // Hello!
shu ismak? // What’s your name? (to a man)
shu ismik? // What’s your name? (to a woman)
inta min weyn? // Where are you from? (to a man)
inti min weyn? // Where are you from? (to a woman)
How to order at a restaurant
baddy oTlob Sandwish djeij // I would like to order a chicken sandwich
w baddy anniinet may zghiireh w kbiireh // and I want a small bottle of water and a large one
w baddy le-7seib law sama7it // and I want the check please
How to say “Good bye” in Lebanese Arabic
yalla bye // I got to go. Bye.
fiiky t2uuly allah ma3ik // You would also say “God with you.”
allah ma3ik // Bye/God with you (to a woman)
