Moroccan DARIJA (An Arabic Dialect??)

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  • čas přidán 4. 05. 2024
  • This video is all about the Moroccan Darija: the Arabic dialect that stumps and mystifies other Arabic speakers. In fact, some say that Darija is not even an Arabic dialect.
    ▶ Learn Moroccan Darija and other Arabic dialects: bit.ly/talkinarabic ◀
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    Special thanks to Zohair Iksiou for his Moroccan Darijan samples, advice, and feedback. And special thanks to Ali Amthal Sulaiman for his Standard Arabic samples, advice, and feedback.
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  • @Langfocus
    @Langfocus  Před 4 lety +228

    Hi, everyone. I hope you like the video! ▶Learn Moroccan Darija and dialects from all over the Arab World: bit.ly/talkinarabic ◀Discount code: LANGFOCUS.
    Talk in Arabic is the only place where you can learn ALL the major dialects of Arabic. If you know some MSA or a specific dialect, Talk in Arabic is a great way to gain exposure to all the others and learn to understand them. Be sure to check it out!
    (Note: if you sign up for a paid plan, Langfocus receives a small referral fee that helps support this channel).

    • @gaisonfirout6907
      @gaisonfirout6907 Před 4 lety

      Darija belong to Algeria , Please PAUL get correct your informations

    • @Ida-xe8pg
      @Ida-xe8pg Před 4 lety +4

      Arabs: lol lets not write short vowels just to mess with the learners
      Moroccans: lol lets not pronounce vowels to mess with the Arabs
      Arabs:

    • @Johnny-hd7hi
      @Johnny-hd7hi Před 4 lety

      You have big knowledge into small details

    • @sarrouritta1
      @sarrouritta1 Před 4 lety

      15:56 "..and speakers of moroccan darija can do the same thing by including some elements of egiptian or syrian dialect.." umm no thanks

    • @mlgdigimon
      @mlgdigimon Před 4 lety +1

      Langfocus I speak Libyan Arabic, normal Arabic, and English

  • @chaviattdarkighte1950
    @chaviattdarkighte1950 Před 4 lety +2277

    One time my Morrocan friend was speaking on the phone in Derija and I thought he was beatboxing

  • @mohamedjb1786
    @mohamedjb1786 Před 4 lety +1872

    Me: *clears throat*
    My Moroccan friend: I agree

  • @ASTRO-ri6ex
    @ASTRO-ri6ex Před 4 lety +1374

    China : we have one of the Hardest languages
    Morocco : *Hold my atay*

  • @Ida-xe8pg
    @Ida-xe8pg Před 4 lety +1507

    Arabs: lol lets not write short vowels just to mess with the learners
    Moroccans: lol lets not pronounce vowels to mess with the Arabs
    Arabs:

    • @holahop1884
      @holahop1884 Před 4 lety +20

      😁 true

    • @ekafv7231
      @ekafv7231 Před 4 lety +3

      @carlinhos juaresma mix. Are u scientific?

    • @abdochakure4439
      @abdochakure4439 Před 4 lety +4

      @Mocro fighter Mocro fighter darija sister of arabic....

    • @abdelt5169
      @abdelt5169 Před 4 lety +3

      @carlinhos juaresma you sounds a fool person or a screw right !!!!

    • @samaouioussama1594
      @samaouioussama1594 Před 3 lety +11

      @Mocro fighter Mocro fighter المغاربة عرب ؟ سير كون تمرg

  • @Langfocus
    @Langfocus  Před 5 lety +3034

    Who are the silly rabbits who disliked this within 3 SECONDS of release? LOL

    • @prince223681
      @prince223681 Před 5 lety +285

      Racists?

    • @user-cn6cn9nx8z
      @user-cn6cn9nx8z Před 5 lety +21

      khurshid Mesko fuck u buta

    • @dijz3749
      @dijz3749 Před 5 lety +143

      Thank you so much for your informative and insightful video! !! Love from Morocco !!!

    • @katilou8913
      @katilou8913 Před 5 lety +186

      For me its the opposite I clicked the like button before starting to watch the video, I'm Moroccan and As soon as I've seen that Langfocus has made a video about our language I've said OMG now my life is complete :D

    • @jbisthemaster1
      @jbisthemaster1 Před 5 lety +36

      khurshid Mesko
      You must be such a swell person.

  • @none-fo9jz
    @none-fo9jz Před 4 lety +1166

    The way he says "darija" like a real Moroccan

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  Před 4 lety +522

      Yeah, I tried to listen and imitate how native speakers say it. 🙂

    • @leejaerim8972
      @leejaerim8972 Před 4 lety +83

      @@Langfocus YESSS, I was about to say that too! Also the way you say Amazigh is exactly like a moroccan would say it!

    • @inssafbaydou6768
      @inssafbaydou6768 Před 3 lety +4

      The same remark

    • @mhamedeladham8437
      @mhamedeladham8437 Před 3 lety +21

      تفورماطا واقيلا😂

    • @jika3811
      @jika3811 Před 3 lety +6

      @@mhamedeladham8437 داكشي لي بان ليا 😂

  • @nourbou1267
    @nourbou1267 Před 3 lety +431

    China:we have a really complicated language
    Morocco: CHDNI 3LIH

    • @speartongamer6080
      @speartongamer6080 Před 3 lety +29

      Bro I almost died reading your comment 😆 😂

    • @nourbou1267
      @nourbou1267 Před 3 lety +4

      @@speartongamer6080 hahah😂😂😂

    • @moroccangeographer8993
      @moroccangeographer8993 Před 3 lety +13

      shdni 3lihom kamlin wkan, ga3 hadok li kayts7ab lihom t9bo sma bdik shinwiya nta3hom bz3t hhh

    • @user-ih1vl4hk9c
      @user-ih1vl4hk9c Před 3 lety +1

      moroccan geographer hrbt

    • @nourbou1267
      @nourbou1267 Před 3 lety

      @@user-ih1vl4hk9c is that my lil mina that i see in ur profile pic

  • @hki4464
    @hki4464 Před 4 lety +457

    Fun fact: the Moroccan word for fish "huta" means Whale in standard Arabic and non-maghrib dialects, so imagine the impression on the face of an Arab guy from Egypt or the Levant when his Morrocan friend tells him that he captured 20 fish today.

    • @wiamebelfekih7678
      @wiamebelfekih7678 Před 3 lety +16

      😂😂😂

    • @Azitem
      @Azitem Před 3 lety +31

      It's interesting to note that hut meant fish way back in the day as well, and it's written that way in the quran, there might be an initial shock but they'll understand in a moment

    • @potatochip190
      @potatochip190 Před 3 lety +11

      Whale doesn't mean huta in non-maghrib dialects, whale means "hoot". there's a big difference between them.

    • @micmar3667
      @micmar3667 Před 3 lety +39

      @@potatochip190 in darija we use huta for one fish and hut plurial

    • @MohamedSalem-tb8yg
      @MohamedSalem-tb8yg Před 3 lety +13

      تسع سمكات و ليس تسع أسماك
      هناك لهجات مغربية كثيرة : شرقية و شمالية و حسانية ووو مختلفة عما تقدمه هنا التي ثمثل فقط جهات محدودة.
      منها من لا يقول : ما عنديش و لكن يقول ماعندي
      و بدل ان يقول : إعطني وا حد نص كيلو ديال اللحم
      يقول مباشرة : إعطني نث كيلو من اللحم.
      تقرير ينقصه الكثير من البحث و التحقق

  • @chaybennani8164
    @chaybennani8164 Před 4 lety +1854

    I feel extremely proud as a moroccan to realise that our dialect is actually pretty fascinating when you analyse it

    • @chaimaagaros7814
      @chaimaagaros7814 Před 4 lety +61

      yea right it was always normal for me but when i realised how hard it was for other arabic ppl to understand it i was confused and we can master any language and have no accent at all

    • @abdelkrim5753
      @abdelkrim5753 Před 4 lety +35

      Yes, it is really beautiful, our country is the most beautiful country

    • @xyliarubav9427
      @xyliarubav9427 Před 4 lety +11

      @@abdelkrim5753 So sarcastic 😒

    • @ilyesbouzidi7837
      @ilyesbouzidi7837 Před 4 lety +33

      تحياتي من تونس للمغرب الشقيق

    • @wii3willRule
      @wii3willRule Před 4 lety +12

      Yours is a beautiful country, I've always fantasized about visiting!

  • @carlosanderson4479
    @carlosanderson4479 Před 4 lety +577

    "Nta ktktb" is my favorite Darija phrase now.

    • @asmaetr
      @asmaetr Před 4 lety +64

      ktktb flktab bkht zwin

    • @eiyiahm9609
      @eiyiahm9609 Před 4 lety +32

      ktkb flktab bkhet zwin w wade7

    • @salmaless2148
      @salmaless2148 Před 4 lety +25

      Ktktb flktab bkht zwin w wade7 w mqad

    • @mariyal3529
      @mariyal3529 Před 4 lety +21

      Ktktb flktab bkht zwin w wade7 w mgad w fn

    • @asmaekarim3894
      @asmaekarim3894 Před 4 lety +23

      Ktktb flktab bkht zwin w wade7 w mqad w fen w ghzal

  • @princess6271
    @princess6271 Před 3 lety +518

    That moment when you've spent 22 years speaking darija and thinking that it's just supremely random until now when you realize it's actually somehow structured. Interesting xd

    • @nabilzig3797
      @nabilzig3797 Před 3 lety +28

      ماكاش لغة عشوائية . كل لغة فالعالم عندها قواعد

    • @jaafarchaoui185
      @jaafarchaoui185 Před 3 lety +5

      @@nabilzig3797 yes but its quite rare to see darija written in a formal conversation

    • @nabilzig3797
      @nabilzig3797 Před 3 lety

      @@jaafarchaoui185 ايه. وين راه المشكل؟!

    • @jaafarchaoui185
      @jaafarchaoui185 Před 3 lety +2

      @@nabilzig3797 its just that because it is rare to see it written some time you dont realise it is structured

    • @nabilzig3797
      @nabilzig3797 Před 3 lety +10

      @@jaafarchaoui185 كل لغة فالعالم عندها قواعد. ما الفرق بين الدارجة وبين الانحليزية او الالمانية. كل هاته اللغات تشكلت طبيعيا.

  • @kenitracity
    @kenitracity Před 6 měsíci +68

    As a Moroccan I m really impressed by the amount of work you did to make this video, thank you.

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  Před 6 měsíci +7

      Thanks!

    • @yakumi8365
      @yakumi8365 Před 3 měsíci +2

      اه، لاهيبارك نتا من للمغرب، أنا دزايري تشرفت بيك

    • @blutherhood3893
      @blutherhood3893 Před měsícem +1

      ​@@yakumi8365 الله يبارك فيك

  • @Maguirimo
    @Maguirimo Před 5 lety +669

    I am Moroccan, and I confirm everything that had been said in this video. and you say the word "Darija" like a native speaker though :D

    • @Maguirimo
      @Maguirimo Před 5 lety +6

      jawad dawdi Oui, mashi berber mais homa inspired mn berber

    • @maghrebdzair9613
      @maghrebdzair9613 Před 5 lety

      Moad Maguiri yeaaa

    • @quasar9999
      @quasar9999 Před 5 lety

      Metaf9 m3ak ta yana 👆

    • @nadab7912
      @nadab7912 Před 5 lety +13

      jawad dawdi I don't totally agree with this one I think that atay is more of a mix between the prefixe "al" (shay = which means the tea in arabic) and "thé" which is the french equivalent for the word "tea". So I think that we mixed it up and we ended up saying "atay" (=al shay+tea). It's quite hard to explain and to understand but it still very interesting and fun!

    • @takeabreak5746
      @takeabreak5746 Před 5 lety

      yeeeh i was surprised also because of the way he say it

  • @eddaifmouna7096
    @eddaifmouna7096 Před 5 lety +691

    Dude I am Moroccan and you just blew my mind !!!! Great job !!

    • @christieshafer2557
      @christieshafer2557 Před 4 lety +1

      Please if you can tell me what. Anna. Means in. Morrocco. Language. Am. Talking to. A marrocan guy. Now he says. Anna. A lot. And. I'm. Just. Wondering .. if. You can text. Me. An let me know. it would be a blessing. ... Thank. You

    • @user-rs8uf7eo6v
      @user-rs8uf7eo6v Před 4 lety +2

      @@christieshafer2557 i can help u ,i'm moroccan also

    • @user-rs8uf7eo6v
      @user-rs8uf7eo6v Před 4 lety +2

      @@christieshafer2557 anna is me

    • @rifeynman
      @rifeynman Před 4 lety +2

      ana = Me, I am, myself etc....

    • @rifeynman
      @rifeynman Před 4 lety +1

      ana = Me, I am, myself etc....

  • @adnankassem8114
    @adnankassem8114 Před 4 lety +118

    Great video. I am from Yemen. I used to play soccer with a group of Moroccan guys. Outside of the match if they were talking to me - they would adjust their Arabic so that i could understand them 100% - but during the match and when they spoke to each other; I understood like 40% LOL. For me it is the most difficult dialect to understand. I am ok at understanding Algerian dialect because we had Algerian neighbors for many years - and i think that helps me understand the Moroccan Arabic much better than other Yemenis I know but it is still hard. I also spent a lot of time in the United States and got exposure to many types of Arabs which helped me understand different dialects.
    But what you said about education is totally true. Any Arab who had a formal education can always adjust their speech to more formal Arabic and get the point across.
    The problem is when you find yourself in some rural village in the Arab world and you meet someone who is not educated -it's like a totally different language - sometimes even if it's your own country.

    • @iayyam
      @iayyam Před 2 lety

      Same here in the US. I remember moving from Maryland to Georgia and could barely understand what they were saying to me. I love this world and its variety.

  • @Salim-mikram
    @Salim-mikram Před 3 lety +153

    Man it is crazy how this is precise. I thought you were some sort of specialist on Moroccan Arabic until I saw the other videos on other languages. It is actually impressive your knowledge about languages of the world.

    • @otmanbourki5264
      @otmanbourki5264 Před 2 lety +5

      اللكنة و نطق الحروف امازيغية

  • @thespanishbull7955
    @thespanishbull7955 Před 5 lety +908

    I’m Cuban and my wife is Moroccan and when she speaks with her family is like I’m in another planet well at least I learned how to say SAFI DHABA 😆

    • @leopold949
      @leopold949 Před 4 lety +6

      Poor you live in cuba cubano
      You go to work on foot

    • @ayoublaghdira5538
      @ayoublaghdira5538 Před 4 lety +6

      i read it dahaba for example he went haha you wanna say safi daba like ok right now ^^

    • @simousa4526
      @simousa4526 Před 4 lety +13

      The Spanish Bull hahaah i dated a cuban girl here in america and i speak good spanish ,,but when my ex girlfriend used to speak spanish ,,,it sounds like chines not spanish ..she talked so fast and with different accent

    • @hananhanan2627
      @hananhanan2627 Před 4 lety +10

      Hhhhhhhhh there is another languages in morocco like amazighe .im Moroccan girl but i can't understand amazighe i think your wife too. it's really hard to understand. Spanish language its easy to learn.

    • @hanachoi4011
      @hanachoi4011 Před 4 lety

      The Spanish Bull lmaooo is so cute

  • @elmehdiilli4445
    @elmehdiilli4445 Před 5 lety +351

    I am moroccan and the way you pronounce "darija"is extremely brilliant and accurate ! It sounds like a native darija speaker. I've been following your channel for 3 years, and never tought you'd make a video about our darija. Glad to see that !

    • @islamabouelata6575
      @islamabouelata6575 Před 5 lety +7

      I was surprised as well, he is brilliant.

    • @betty3910
      @betty3910 Před 4 lety +11

      he isn't the one pronouncing the Darija words, it's obviously a Moroccan person.

    • @gigiemma3192
      @gigiemma3192 Před 4 lety +2

      @@betty3910 haha they know that ye doofus. They're talking about the word "darija"

    • @betty3910
      @betty3910 Před 4 lety +2

      @@gigiemma3192 Darija couldn't be pronounced wrong it's a very simple word to say how can you possibly say it wrong? it's just not impressive to me, what can I say lol.

    • @eyupey7125
      @eyupey7125 Před 4 lety

      @@gigiemma3192 No exactly as @Be tty said. .. they thought that he was the one who is reading the darija sentences. .. but he wasn't. .. but for darija word is a piece of cake to pronounce it 😂😂😂

  • @zxnith8461
    @zxnith8461 Před 3 lety +228

    Wow Moroccan is a cool dialect, the way they just remove vowels sounds so sexy and the fact that they have french words makes it even fancier. Now I just wanna learn specifically Moroccan Arabic because of that

    • @gokusayan
      @gokusayan Před 3 lety

      Did u learn ?

    • @tacocatt6808
      @tacocatt6808 Před 3 lety +70

      Having to listen to my dad speak on the phone in Arabic makes me doubt you calling it “sexy”... dude sounds like he’s strangling a cat and also hacking up his lungs while having an argument while in reality he said something like “yes my day was good, how about yours” lol

    • @tacocatt6808
      @tacocatt6808 Před 3 lety +15

      But! I’m not trying to dissuade you, it’s definitely cool for (native) English speakers to be able to say they learned another language, so good luck!

    • @Kalia.
      @Kalia. Před 3 lety +2

      @@tacocatt6808 lol

    • @zxnith8461
      @zxnith8461 Před 3 lety +1

      @@tacocatt6808 English is actually my third language and Arabic is taught at schools in my country but it's not Morrocan

  • @powerpuffcurl1459
    @powerpuffcurl1459 Před 2 lety +113

    This made me emotional… I didn’t grow up in morocco and I can’t read or write Arabic but I speak moroccan fluently and I guess I’ve always felt like it doesn’t count or something. Like me speaking only darija is not enough/not valid. I like my language so much but I don’t have anyone to share it with.

    • @LuxuryLifestyle1
      @LuxuryLifestyle1 Před 2 lety +25

      No one in morocco give a fuck to arabic language we love our darija

    • @menot5039
      @menot5039 Před 2 lety +6

      we love our darija and tamazight , you don't need standard arabic.

    • @HarunaMaurer
      @HarunaMaurer Před 2 lety +2

      just speaking it is very important girl!! It's just the same with me, but when I think that I'm able to comunicate with the language of my parents fluently it makes me proud :)

    • @ikosaheadrom
      @ikosaheadrom Před 2 lety

      I think it is more convenient to learn standard Arabic since it's one of the only things linking us and the rest of the Arabic world

    • @olivermerth5179
      @olivermerth5179 Před rokem +3

      @@LuxuryLifestyle1 I do
      , and I'm a master in Standard Arabic just like I am in Darija
      Btw , I am just half Moroccan, my mom is Italian

  • @abdellatifbaladi8922
    @abdellatifbaladi8922 Před 5 lety +639

    I'm moroccan myself n was scanning the video wishing to find a single mistake but none, it's flawless
    البارحة اكلنا المرقة و اليوم اكلنا المرقة كذلك

    • @simohomeik9188
      @simohomeik9188 Před 5 lety +10

      ههههه

    • @hitidal_ibz
      @hitidal_ibz Před 4 lety +13

      تباو تمرقو تمرقو تمرقو وبدلو شوية

    • @JosephBelfort
      @JosephBelfort Před 4 lety +13

      وغدا سناكل المرقة ههههه

    • @hamza2662
      @hamza2662 Před 4 lety +29

      No it's not flawless he translated kanrkab ttobis lmdrasa with" i ride the bus the school " thinking that the L in lmdrasa is the article the whereas it's a short form of الى with a stronger stress on the L than when u just normally say lmdrassa for 'the school'.

    • @rachidaman8180
      @rachidaman8180 Před 4 lety +7

      سمقلنا البرد فاكلنا المرقة ولم نجد للحلوى طريق.

  • @OmaMansou
    @OmaMansou Před 5 lety +371

    I am Moroccan and I can safely label this video as the MOST COMPREHENSIVE VIDEO ABOUT THE MOROCCAN DIALECT. Hands down.
    It has always been hard for me to describe the Moroccan Darija to foreigners, and this video will surely help me a lot ! Thanks Langfocus !

    • @heyitsfadoua
      @heyitsfadoua Před 5 lety +4

      AGREED

    • @seireiart
      @seireiart Před 5 lety +2

      I agree with that comment and can't say anything more...

    • @FBI-om8my
      @FBI-om8my Před 5 lety +2

      I am moroccan too buddy and i agree with u

    • @OmaMansou
      @OmaMansou Před 5 lety

      Can you propose any more interesting videos ? I'd be really grateful 😄

    • @aymen3893
      @aymen3893 Před 5 lety

      Admit

  • @tacocatt6808
    @tacocatt6808 Před 3 lety +212

    Me who’s Moroccan and Scottish: *laughs in dialects* lol

    • @k.a._135
      @k.a._135 Před 2 lety +20

      lucky ! you know the hardest English and Arabic dialects. So you understand everyone

    • @laayouneie1713
      @laayouneie1713 Před 2 lety

      Cool man
      Have you been to Morocco and which city

    • @theTHwa3tes11
      @theTHwa3tes11 Před 2 lety +1

      Your pfc matches your comment lmao.

    • @sephikong8323
      @sephikong8323 Před 2 lety

      That's a pair that I definitely didn't expect and yet that I don't question

    • @tacocatt6808
      @tacocatt6808 Před 2 lety +3

      @@laayouneie1713 yes I have quite a few times in my life so far, it’s the country I’ve visited most outside of living in Scotland. Usually I’ll go to Marrakech and up the Atlas Mountains, but I’ve visited Rabat and Tangier. I want to visit Fes but haven’t yet. I’ve also been to some places outside of cities especially if I’m travelling between a couple of places, but I’ll usually either be visiting friends/family or when I’m passing through, I might stop if I know of/see something interesting.

  • @malakl9918
    @malakl9918 Před 3 lety +23

    This by far, is the best, well detailed video i have seen on Darija. As a Moroccan, i am beyond impressed how many aspects of darija they went through, and well explained it. This is basicly a perfect class for anyone wanting to understand how darija really works. GOOD JOB 👌🏻

  • @Eruptor1000
    @Eruptor1000 Před 5 lety +662

    Heard a lot of people speak it in Moscow during the world cup. Sounds beautiful

  • @souhailds3892
    @souhailds3892 Před 4 lety +727

    انا مغربي لي مغربي يبان هنا✌🇲🇦
    I am form Morocco 🇲🇦✌❤

    • @user-sl9lm3dy2s
      @user-sl9lm3dy2s Před 4 lety +13

      Welcome my brother 😍 from Egypt 🇪🇬 welcome

    • @mohamedalyoune9756
      @mohamedalyoune9756 Před 3 lety +3

      @@hamzamouhou4426 صحرا فرنسية

    • @user-bf8gn3gl9q
      @user-bf8gn3gl9q Před 3 lety +19

      @@mohamedalyoune9756 صحراء مغرببة😌

    • @user-kt1es8xp9c
      @user-kt1es8xp9c Před 3 lety +20

      @@mohamedalyoune9756 الصحراء مغربية 😇 ونتا فهمها كيفما بغيتي 😉

    • @samiaibiza
      @samiaibiza Před 3 lety +9

      @@user-kt1es8xp9c صحراء المغربية

  • @TheWaheedahmed12
    @TheWaheedahmed12 Před 3 lety +49

    12:34 I think the verb "bghiti = بغيتي" comes from the Arabic word "yabagha = يبغى" which is synonym of "yuriid = يريد". It's common in many gulf dialects as well.

    • @ossbst469
      @ossbst469 Před 2 lety +6

      Sometimes we reduce it to "biti"

    • @olivermerth5179
      @olivermerth5179 Před rokem +3

      @@ossbst469 Marrakech city dialect :) love it

    • @SlimShadyOrDie
      @SlimShadyOrDie Před rokem +2

      @@ossbst469 ach awa biti hhhh kayen

    • @sam_sa09
      @sam_sa09 Před rokem

      @@olivermerth5179 I thought that was Agadir dialect lol my friends make fun of it

  • @nezarbouabid5620
    @nezarbouabid5620 Před rokem +2

    This is a very detailed and accurate explanation of the Moroccan Darija. Thank you for thoroughly researching the topic before making the video!

  • @yahyadouzi427
    @yahyadouzi427 Před 4 lety +79

    ت ب ت : " believe it or not these 3 letters mean "you seriously consider yourself to be a good dad?!!" yeah

  • @nassereddine4
    @nassereddine4 Před 4 lety +513

    I appreciate the fact that you tried to pronounce " Darija" as it is pronounced by a Moroccan and not in a way an American would pronounce it.

  • @TajM70
    @TajM70 Před rokem +2

    My biggest hobby is languages - I’ve been watching your videos for quite a while and you are very good at what u do. Please keep up the good work dude ❤️

  • @Anna_wang26
    @Anna_wang26 Před 2 lety +2

    Your analysis is very impressive.. Thanks for all of this work. Much love from Morocco 🇲🇦

  • @Voguevisions
    @Voguevisions Před 4 lety +354

    WHEN YOU HEAR A MOROCCAN TALK , SEEMS LIKE HE DO FREESTYLE

  • @charafeddinesabouni111
    @charafeddinesabouni111 Před 5 lety +289

    I'm blown away Paul, I think you just made Darija an official language by introducing grammar rules to it :'D

    • @user-wk2uf5yo7x
      @user-wk2uf5yo7x Před 5 lety +12

      هدشي موجود من زمان

    • @Jasmin-lc6vb
      @Jasmin-lc6vb Před 5 lety +7

      N9dru nrj3uha lougha labghina possible

    • @mgppl4329
      @mgppl4329 Před 4 lety +25

      It's already considered a language by many Moroccan linguists and scholars. They've even suggested to use it in schooling instead of "standard Arabic" .

    • @wassimhamdi1449
      @wassimhamdi1449 Před 4 lety

      Lmao exactly! it was pretty messy, still it is haha

    • @Ideophagous
      @Ideophagous Před 4 lety +8

      @@wassimhamdi1449 Who says it's messy? I always put Darija as my mother tongue in my CV, because it is a language in its own right. Putting "Arabic" would simply be incorrect.

  • @rockandrollaholic
    @rockandrollaholic Před 4 lety +24

    10:45 "shi" is derived from "shai'" (شىء) in SA. From Indonesia here sending peace and love to Morocco.

  • @ryanakesson4338
    @ryanakesson4338 Před 3 lety +20

    That’s a great summary! The one thing I’d disagree with is the comparison to it being like a rural Scottish accent for American English speakers. The Arabic dialects have a relatively similar period of divergence to that of the Slavic languages, so a better comparison might be a Russian speaker trying to understand polish. Of course based on exposure to each other’s language, both can make an effort to use more standard vocabulary and communicate effectively but in terms of everyday speech, I’d argue they are just as different as the Slavic languages for example, but due to the Arabic dialects perception as dialects of a singular language, there’s much more exposure and shared media between different Arab countries allowing them to more easily understand each other, but I think that has more to do with the exposure rather than a linguistic similarity

  • @dinakaicer1986
    @dinakaicer1986 Před 5 lety +130

    I admire how you get very deep breaking down languages. I am amazed by the detailed info given in this video about my language/dialect and country. It's like you were born all over the world. Hats off to you and to this channel.

    • @TheBighobby
      @TheBighobby Před 5 lety

      Hi do you speak language arabic or darija?

  • @varunatrooper5785
    @varunatrooper5785 Před 4 lety +476

    Russians: we have the hardest language
    Moroccans: hold my chtayt

    • @eiyiahm9609
      @eiyiahm9609 Před 4 lety

      fancy!

    • @hamzabenaidahb
      @hamzabenaidahb Před 4 lety +5

      You're my favourite stranger now !

    • @maryemlaghouil9287
      @maryemlaghouil9287 Před 4 lety +2

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @sizamnonon
      @sizamnonon Před 4 lety +21

      U remind me of snhaji: ياوتي جمعي شطايطك ماتباتيش هنا....مي دادا

    • @varunatrooper5785
      @varunatrooper5785 Před 4 lety

      @@sizamnonon u also remind me of his la3ziza lghalya bright like a dimond xD

  • @nanaminsloafbread._.4535
    @nanaminsloafbread._.4535 Před 2 lety +7

    Im impressed with his accent saying "darija" like a native speaker!!! Great content and thank you❤

  • @myemperor
    @myemperor Před 2 lety +1

    Paul: You never cease to outdo yourself... Your videos are so concise, comprehensive and educational that you save folks like me a ton of research... I am a native speaker of Arabic... and Darija sounds like Chinese to me... Love how you broke it down to its simplest form...

  • @adamkokrito
    @adamkokrito Před 4 lety +369

    welcome to the new episode of
    3lach hadchi f recommendation

  • @traditionalzina9559
    @traditionalzina9559 Před 4 lety +181

    Asians : our language is so hard to be understood!
    Me : hold my tea with ne3na3 😏

  • @khadija8046
    @khadija8046 Před 2 lety +16

    China : our language is the hardest one in the world
    Moroccan : ana galss kantmcha / it means I'm sitting I walk
    Complex language but wonderful 🤩

  • @beeecool
    @beeecool Před 4 lety +3

    For sure it took you too much time to do this great job! Thanks for this analysis!!
    I am proud to be Moroccan

  • @linaislam617
    @linaislam617 Před 4 lety +65

    I'm french with moroccan background. I speak darija fluently but do not know the formal arabic
    I knew about the influences of french and Spanish on the darija but I'm pleasantly surprise to see that strong impact of the Amazigh. Thank you for this very insightful analysis.

    • @Ideophagous
      @Ideophagous Před 4 lety +5

      I like hearing about Darija from the perspective of native speakers who don't know Standard Arabic. Many Moroccans think that Darija is Arabic because they can easily mix them when they speak, and can understand both (and because they are taught that it's Arabic by society).

    • @warriorzx4995
      @warriorzx4995 Před 3 lety +1

      It is like a rural Englander not knowing Standard English. It is that simple, really.

  • @jackhorne4342
    @jackhorne4342 Před 5 lety +188

    I find it really interesting how similar Darija is to Maltese (my grandmother is from Malta and speaks it to me). For example, the sentence "ma3andish shi mush, wa lakin 3andi tes3a dial hutat" in Maltese is "mgħandix xi qtates, imma għandi disa' ħutiet" (that's how I would say it, my Maltese isn't great) and Maltese also uses the "n" prefix to show the first person (I ride is "nirkeb").
    Another thing I find interesting is that the Darija word for two is "juj", which reminded me of the word "żewġ' in Maltese, which is used when talking about two of something, even though the Maltese word for two is "tnejn".

    • @user-wk2uf5yo7x
      @user-wk2uf5yo7x Před 5 lety +4

      Jack Horne interesting

    • @Magicallstore
      @Magicallstore Před 5 lety +8

      So we have the same language that looks amazing

    • @PitchSef
      @PitchSef Před 5 lety +3

      Jack Horne wtf it looks like it’s the same language!!! Maybe moroccans are all from malta

    • @marinapino480
      @marinapino480 Před 5 lety +7

      @@PitchSef Ni una cosa, ni otra: simplemente dos dialectos del árabe bastante próximos por el área de influencia, como podía ser el andalusí en tiempos.

    • @toonsi10
      @toonsi10 Před 5 lety +7

      In Tunisian is ""ma għandi hatta qattus, amma għandi tisaa' ħutet"

  • @irinakolcheva5212
    @irinakolcheva5212 Před 3 lety +1

    I have learnt a lot from this excellent video ! Great job ! Fascinating language!

  • @nafez
    @nafez Před rokem +18

    Incredible content. Unique encyclopedic knowledge.

  • @the_trypha
    @the_trypha Před 4 lety +269

    Joke:
    other places: no country is able to make their own language
    Darija: hold my maghreb

    • @elmetnihamza
      @elmetnihamza Před 4 lety +1

      hold my joint hhh

    • @chayhan5828
      @chayhan5828 Před 4 lety +7

      Hold my brad

    • @kj-marslander
      @kj-marslander Před 4 lety +7

      @@chayhan5828 No thanks. It's too hot.

    • @hamidmalmo7664
      @hamidmalmo7664 Před 4 lety +3

      The Irony
      Other places did create their languages, but morrocans failed. Because France and Allah rules them.

    • @magpiecity
      @magpiecity Před 4 lety

      Hold my consonants

  • @Ash_tommo
    @Ash_tommo Před 5 lety +573

    من اليمن وندوي بالدارجه
    كنحماااق عليكم بزاف 🇲🇦❣️🇾🇪

    • @abdelt5169
      @abdelt5169 Před 5 lety +39

      لا غا قولها دنيا هانية ههههه :)

    • @mkassy9316
      @mkassy9316 Před 5 lety +9

      راك معلم.. تبارك الله عليك

    • @scoopwithfadoua7286
      @scoopwithfadoua7286 Před 5 lety +149

      إيلا، مكنتي نتا، مغريبي، نقطع يدي، 😂😂

    • @Ash_tommo
      @Ash_tommo Před 5 lety +29

      fadoua hhh
      وحق الله من اليمن 🙄

    • @scoopwithfadoua7286
      @scoopwithfadoua7286 Před 5 lety +20

      @@Ash_tommo ههههه ايوة تبارك الله عليك، طيرتيني

  • @isma4438
    @isma4438 Před 4 lety +126

    The only one who can understand easily a Moroccan is an Algerian, cause the two dialects are very close to each other.

    • @moroccangeographer8993
      @moroccangeographer8993 Před 3 lety +16

      And even that is not Universal. An Algerian and a Oujdi (from Oujda) would communicate much more easily than an Algerian and a Marrakshi (from Marrakesh) or a Hassani (from the Sahara).

    • @Darl-ur3uq
      @Darl-ur3uq Před 3 lety +14

      ACTUALLY NO , they are not simillar since Algerian has a lot of French words and most of the time they can't understand themselves specially in some dialects

    • @tk8i367
      @tk8i367 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Darl-ur3uq he said the most close

    • @rowa2825
      @rowa2825 Před 3 lety +6

      true, but morocco has been influenced by spain which algeria did not, so theres a higher chance that an algerian would not understand a morocco than vice versa

    • @isma4438
      @isma4438 Před 3 lety

      @@rowa2825 Fake News.

  • @blue.orangeade
    @blue.orangeade Před 2 lety +2

    Thank you for this, it's very interesting and educational!

  • @WisamSafi1978
    @WisamSafi1978 Před 5 lety +173

    Amazing! As an Arabic speaker of Syrian dialect the Darjia is indeed a foreign language to me. When my brothers wife (from Morocco),talks to her family i can only pick a few words here and there.

    • @dinakaicer1986
      @dinakaicer1986 Před 5 lety +32

      Wisam Safi It's strange because we understand Syrian dialect and many other arabic dialects very well. Syrian tv series are popular.

    • @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115
      @nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 Před 5 lety +3

      It happens the same to me when I hear Sicilian dialect.. it's like hearing french.

    • @moroccanfreethinker2739
      @moroccanfreethinker2739 Před 5 lety +7

      It's normal our language is not entirely semetic so it's surely much diferent than the others

    • @muni2799
      @muni2799 Před 5 lety +9

      I am also a syrian Arab who speaks Standard Arabic and don't have that kind of hard time understanding their dialect.

    • @WisamSafi1978
      @WisamSafi1978 Před 5 lety +3

      Sara Sara I 30 years ago used to have the same problem growing up in Saudi Arabia. Egyption teachers had a hard time understanding my Syrian dialect but I used to under theirs due to popularity of Egypt’s soap operas. But recently Syrian drama is very common so our dialect is easily understood everywhere.
      Give us one popular drama from Morocco and we will all understand it and even speak it :D

  • @prince223681
    @prince223681 Před 5 lety +190

    Dude you seriously made this video exactly as I decided to learn Moroccan Arabic!

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  Před 5 lety +45

      Yeah, I bugged your phone so I knew all about it!

    • @zakaria3898
      @zakaria3898 Před 5 lety +1

      Stormy good job !

    • @WezaBeatz
      @WezaBeatz Před 5 lety

      Haha nice

    • @oc3607
      @oc3607 Před 5 lety +9

      I wanna learn Maroccan Arabic too but there aren't any good resources online. I wanna cry ㅠ.ㅠ

    • @americasimperialist360
      @americasimperialist360 Před 5 lety

      Jackson Park
      Crappy language to say the least. MSA will be more useful.

  • @beeyouuuuu1970
    @beeyouuuuu1970 Před 8 měsíci +6

    i can't stop smiling i really enjoed this video feeling that our Dialet has its own Grammar. I really never thought of it as a language that has any Grammar rules. It's making me massively proud

  • @evenstar9946
    @evenstar9946 Před 4 lety +3

    I never though I needed to watch this type of video about my mother toung. Love it. Thank you and youtube for recommendation. Geetings from a danish moroccan rifiya :)

  • @carlosgarciagalvez9146
    @carlosgarciagalvez9146 Před 4 lety +232

    Greetings from Andalusia! J'aimerais apprendre le darija de notre voisins les marrocaines

  • @SaidaValinor
    @SaidaValinor Před 5 lety +41

    I'm Moroccan, I loved the video, pretty accurate 👌👍 seeing it broken down like that makes me feel more like it is indeed a different language 🤣🤣 lol

    • @dinakaicer1986
      @dinakaicer1986 Před 5 lety +4

      Saida Bul me too, I was amazed

    • @Instruisto31
      @Instruisto31 Před 5 lety +2

      They are different languages, and of course Moroccan is the MOST BEAUTIFUL.

  • @Zinebmfi
    @Zinebmfi Před 4 lety +1

    Great video as a moroccan and a darija teacher it helped me a lot 💓💓 thank you 💓

  • @viajemondo
    @viajemondo Před 4 lety +2

    Me encanta tu manera de explicarte. Eres un crack!!!
    Ojalá hagas un episodio sobre el dialecto árabe Hasanya 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

  • @mariamalsaeedi
    @mariamalsaeedi Před 5 lety +184

    انا عراقية
    واحيي كل أهلنا وناسنا بالمغرب الشقيق

    • @cralix85
      @cralix85 Před 5 lety +2

      Maria Alsaeedi سلام :)

    • @gagnabil
      @gagnabil Před 5 lety +4

      تحية لأهل الرافدين مهد الحضارة

    • @same337
      @same337 Před 5 lety +2

      Maria Alsaeedi بارك الله فيك اختي الكريمة

    • @user-kl3jo4mz8l
      @user-kl3jo4mz8l Před 5 lety +4

      Maria Alsaeedi تحية لكي اختي الدارجة في المغرب تمانين في المائة عربية دارجة

    • @elba1115
      @elba1115 Před 5 lety

      مرحبا بك

  • @alexeltroll
    @alexeltroll Před 5 lety +62

    Thank you for another wonderful contribution to world of languages. You sir are a treasure of the internet that makes me grateful to live in this day and age.

  • @farahbenadam8625
    @farahbenadam8625 Před 2 lety +3

    You did a great job to analyze it. You made me happy of my Darija. Just one observation our sentences are always shorter and faster like we don't have time to speak not like other dialects.

  • @anonymoustv5770
    @anonymoustv5770 Před rokem +16

    I am from Sudan, and I can understand most Arabic. Moroccan is beyond my comprehension

  • @wtv2128
    @wtv2128 Před 4 lety +76

    I am Egyptian and I always found Darija to be both difficult and fascinating! Beautiful differences! 💕 تحيتي لكل المغاربة♥

    • @loomingtv8581
      @loomingtv8581 Před 4 lety +1

      هل المصريين عرب ولا لا؟

    • @wtv2128
      @wtv2128 Před 4 lety +8

      @@loomingtv8581 المصريون عرب مستعربة، مصريتهم فخر وعروبتهم فخر.

    • @saidsad5273
      @saidsad5273 Před 4 lety +4

      @@wtv2128 أحسنت وأبدعت

    • @amrovine4029
      @amrovine4029 Před 2 lety +3

      @@loomingtv8581 المصريين أغلبهم من العرق القبطي

    • @smileyface3296
      @smileyface3296 Před rokem +1

      @@wtv2128 هههههههههه هههههههههههههه عروبتهم فخر اذا انت لا علاقة لك باهل الارض نافريتي ووو فراعنة لم تتكلم عربي هه

  • @ginpotion2412
    @ginpotion2412 Před 5 lety +39

    My mind is blown right now. I didn't know such information was available to the public. I'm 100% Moroccan and I can say this video is very accurate. Well played Paul...well played.

  • @Nath_CM
    @Nath_CM Před 2 lety +6

    6:05 Thats absolutely crazy, you don't even have to open your mouth

  • @nomenestomen8952
    @nomenestomen8952 Před 3 lety +1

    thank you for this great video, excellent!

  • @cerinemokhtari4823
    @cerinemokhtari4823 Před 4 lety +68

    I'm Algerian so i understand Moroccan dialect. But not always. Sometimes it is hard to follow. Especially because i'm from the capital so it's kinda far from Morocco. Like you said the more you go east the more you struggle.
    But I have to say the fact that you found a pattern for an Arabic dialect is really impressive! For me it's soooo random and hard to get if not a native speaker. You sure are an expert!

    • @AraboAlgerian2
      @AraboAlgerian2 Před 4 lety +5

      Algiers dialect is the nearest to the moroccan dialect.

    • @orasinias
      @orasinias Před 11 měsíci +2

      Moroccans speak north African Hebrew their language is not called darija

    • @osveshcheniye
      @osveshcheniye Před 10 měsíci +3

      @@AraboAlgerian2 the more you go west the more it becomes Moroccan, for example Tlemceni dialects are pretty much indifferent to eastern Moroccan ones. That's cause it's the same people divided by administrative borders.

    • @lemonade_ib
      @lemonade_ib Před 2 měsíci +2

      Algiers has it's own dialect, the dialect spoke in Bechar and Oran are closer to the Moroccan darija .

  • @aryathorn
    @aryathorn Před 5 lety +152

    Many thanks for the fantastic video!, Its funny you mentioned a similarity to Palestinian, me as a Palestinian did not really found it so difficult as other Arab speakers say but I don't know exactly why, I talked a lot with Moroccan people and I confirm at first it was bit hard but few weeks later I could understand almost all words...I also noticed that Moroccan people always trying to make it easier for us in the middle east to understand them, but now when I tell them 'don't worry just talk in darija' they are surprised and smile :D
    I visited Morocco not so long ago and I was very much welcomed there and felt like home, Morrcan people are so kind and welcoming and I very much enjoyed their Darija
    all the best for you people in Morroco from Palestine and many thanks once again for the efforts in making such great videos!

    • @CDRNY25
      @CDRNY25 Před 5 lety +1

      Similarity to Palestinian Arabic? What? Not at all.

    • @Nani17334
      @Nani17334 Před 4 lety +2

      aryathorn FREE PALESTINE ♥️💯

    • @markyowakim6053
      @markyowakim6053 Před 4 lety +3

      I'm Syrian, you and I most likely speak a very similar dialect.
      I actually found that I was able to understand the Darija and that it was closer to my way of speaking Arabic than the Modern Standard Arabic. Granted, I am not formally educated in Arabic, I've just always spoken Arabic at home.
      Much love to all people from all over 💞

    • @lailaastoria9627
      @lailaastoria9627 Před 4 lety +2

      aryathorn thanks brother for your nice words .in Morocco we grow up with the love of Palestine..

    • @o.a-b7212
      @o.a-b7212 Před rokem

      It's because the syntax is similar to Canaanite

  • @ManuelaLanza
    @ManuelaLanza Před 4 lety +2

    Awesome video! I travel a lot to Morocco and after making a few vlogs there with Moroccans, I learned a bit of Darija!

  • @ibrahimkhatib6191
    @ibrahimkhatib6191 Před 2 lety +1

    I learned mountains of knowledge from this video. You’re the man.

  • @arethas5462
    @arethas5462 Před 5 lety +142

    I’m moroccan and I approve this video 👍🇲🇦

    • @randomimmigrant348
      @randomimmigrant348 Před 5 lety +1

      How is English amongst Moroccans? Do most people understand English?

    • @sc1377
      @sc1377 Před 5 lety

      Random Immigrant yeah there's a lot of people who could understand English I guess more than 50% but some of them couldn't speak it fluently

    • @we_arevenom_2211
      @we_arevenom_2211 Před 5 lety

      Random Immigrant yes here in morocco , alot of boys can understand it , but old people i don't think so , since , they grew up with native frensh at that time

    • @opus53waldstein70
      @opus53waldstein70 Před 4 lety

      أكاوا على
      I approve!
      أنت هو الدكتور سنينات ؟ 😂

    • @DF-sw8wh
      @DF-sw8wh Před 4 lety

      @@we_arevenom_2211 lol girls can understand it too.i I can speak English like an American person. Some people do think I am American. People in Morocco just learned English recently. I learned it way before that. Saying this in the most modest way possible lol...

  • @mariekaren8352
    @mariekaren8352 Před 5 lety +37

    I badly need someone to teach me how to speak Darija. I'll be in Morocco next year and I love the language and the country. ❤ from Philippines. 😊

    • @hasna780
      @hasna780 Před 5 lety +3

      Marie Karen im here for you, with enorm pleasure :)

    • @mariekaren8352
      @mariekaren8352 Před 5 lety

      Nutella tasty! 😂 I'm serious. Let's get it on. When do we start? 😂

    • @hasna780
      @hasna780 Před 5 lety

      Marie Karen im serious too ^_^ you choose the way we can do it,
      My english by the way is not perfect , ;)

    • @mariekaren8352
      @mariekaren8352 Před 5 lety

      Hey! My english is not perfect either but who needs that right?! 😂
      Bruh, send me an e-mail here - Misskaridad131988@gmail.com

    • @TheBighobby
      @TheBighobby Před 5 lety

      Hi I will teach you language darija your welcome

  • @HakanKometaOzkan
    @HakanKometaOzkan Před 3 lety +6

    Great video. A little correction: min. 14:26 the future tense in darija is built with ghadi/gha + conjugated verb but WITHOUT ka- prefixed to it.

  • @volodymyrgoncharenko6860
    @volodymyrgoncharenko6860 Před 3 měsíci

    Thank you so much for recommending this great website!

  • @forestmanzpedia
    @forestmanzpedia Před 4 lety +209

    Moroccans: "So, how much can we troll arabic people with our language?"
    Other Moroccans: *_YES_*

    • @belkacemgueliane7490
      @belkacemgueliane7490 Před 4 lety +12

      i'm algerian in France and we have the same mutated darija, boy it's so fun trolling Arabs

    • @ifisiffouss9415
      @ifisiffouss9415 Před 4 lety +11

      Morroco dezyer Tunis libya muritani is not arabs people amazigh Berbères

    • @mohamedel6012
      @mohamedel6012 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ifisiffouss9415 غريب امر هؤلاء مع الدليل و مكيتقوش .

    • @barinasr6806
      @barinasr6806 Před 3 lety +1

      @@ifisiffouss9415 drop Libya, we are not berbers

    • @ifisiffouss9415
      @ifisiffouss9415 Před 3 lety +7

      @@barinasr6806 ...get Lost djakas nord Afrique is amazigh Berbères is not arabs ayagheyol

  • @MohdFawzy
    @MohdFawzy Před 4 lety +142

    Darija is utterly incomprehensible to me as an Egyptian, and I usually end up speaking French with my Moroccan friends, so I agree that it's a standalone language rather than a dialect of Arabic

    • @abdel21401
      @abdel21401 Před 4 lety +27

      I agree with you brother! We moroccans are amazigh,! Not arabs

    • @yassinetaldaoui2064
      @yassinetaldaoui2064 Před 4 lety +25

      @@abdel21401 Darija isnt amazigh

    • @lets_wrapitup
      @lets_wrapitup Před 3 lety +26

      @@abdel21401 Does that mean they’re not Arabs? No, because each dialect has influences.

    • @Kennychoco22
      @Kennychoco22 Před 3 lety +1

      @@yassinetaldaoui2064 yes it isn’t. And it’s not Arabic either

    • @olivermerth5179
      @olivermerth5179 Před rokem

      Neither Egyptian, it has its own old terms and expressions
      We got used to it because of films, series and music

  • @waelsghayer6374
    @waelsghayer6374 Před 3 lety +1

    Wonderful work bro, you never ceased to amaze me of your huge and massive effort you put into learning new languages.
    PS: I wish you can make something about the Tunisian Dialect because it's so different of morrocan darija
    Many thanks ! god bless

  • @farouqdaas8376
    @farouqdaas8376 Před 2 lety +12

    As a Syrian who lived in Mauritania a couple of years and learned Hassaniya I now found Darija a lot lot easier to understand but it still sounds from another planet when they speak fast. It's true that Syrian and Egyptian dialects alongside SA are the most common dialects to borrow elements from when two people of different dialects want to communicate. The main reason imo is due to the ubiquity of Syrian-dubbed Turkish shows and Egyptian movies in all countries that speak Arabic. The majority of Mauritanians knew how to speak at least a little bit in Syrian dialect and they even difaulted to it when speaking to me even when I had been in Mauritania for a year and spoke to them in Hassaniya. Also in Mauritania atay is used specifically for green tea with mint which is a traditional drink while black tea is called Lipton (pronounced in a french accent)

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  Před 2 lety +4

      That’s very interesting! I didn’t know that Egyptian shows were dubbed into Syrian dialect.
      I notice that when people try to speak Modern Standard Arabic, it sounds like Syrian dialect with MSA pronunciation. I think people call it the “White Dialect”.

    • @farouqdaas8376
      @farouqdaas8376 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Langfocus They are not actually! I mistyped the sentence I think I should've phrased it better or used a coma maybe.
      Sorry that I gave you the wrong info 😅
      What I meant was Syrian-dubbed Turkish shows plus regular non-dubbed Egyptian movies.
      I don't know how else to phrase it sorry 😅

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  Před 2 lety +2

      Oh, ok. Yeah, the sentence was a little ambiguous. But native speakers often use sentences like that too. 😄

    • @the180degreerule3
      @the180degreerule3 Před rokem +1

      yes brother we grew up consuming Syrian and Egyptian TV series long before the Turkish dubbed mediocre series, and I say Mediocre because they invaded our TV's when their stories and engagement is so far behind what Syrians and Egyptians produced, it's sad that Turkish dubbed mediocre series took over...to me Syrian and Egyptian media can never be replaced not to mention Syria's endless Anime shows translated in Damascus!
      I remember some very old Syrian series and sitcoms that can never be remade by the Turks no matter if they try for the next 10000 years lol god bless You and the people of Syria and Syria, we love You!

  • @NiaChii
    @NiaChii Před 4 lety +49

    I live in Germany, my parents are from Tunisia. I understand moroccan darija more that standard arabic

    • @hanachoi4011
      @hanachoi4011 Před 4 lety +3

      Sonia Sunshine i don’t understand when pple speak in tunisian , it’s normal ?

    • @mostafaelammari4370
      @mostafaelammari4370 Před 4 lety

      Ich bin in Marokko geboren und aufgewachsen und ich kann marokkanisch ganz gut reden und verstehen:D

    • @yenthusiast
      @yenthusiast Před 4 lety

      lol my head was scratching the whole video. I'm Sudanese btw

    • @minatal8411
      @minatal8411 Před 3 lety +2

      Well we are all from el Marghrib el arabi after all

    • @ss-de4cm
      @ss-de4cm Před rokem

      Makes sense since Tunisian dialect is heavily influenced by Tamazight too and were all on one land mass, Tamazgha.

  • @user-xo9ck5ew5g
    @user-xo9ck5ew5g Před 5 lety +19

    I am from Syria , I can understand about 80% of Morrocan Darija .
    maybe becaus I had (and still have ) Algerean and Tunisian friends ., but I can't speak it
    BTW I love this "Darija" .

    • @user-xo9ck5ew5g
      @user-xo9ck5ew5g Před 5 lety +2

      Павел Попов nice way to start a conversation !

  • @didi-ti1wk
    @didi-ti1wk Před 3 lety +1

    really good explanation to a difference between “darija “ and modern standard Arabic and amazigh , good job and thank you .

  • @user-wn6ic9mj8b
    @user-wn6ic9mj8b Před rokem +19

    I'm from Yemen ( the south of Arabian peninsula) and the conclusion in the end of the video is great and accurate from you about Moroccan dialect
    And the educated Moroccans can speak standard Arabic easily

    • @fatimakachani2292
      @fatimakachani2292 Před rokem

      ⁰ü

    • @karimb972
      @karimb972 Před rokem +3

      Any Moroccan that completed school in Morocco can read, write and talk standard arabic

    • @zizen666
      @zizen666 Před rokem

      It's literally taught in schools, no wonder they can speak it

    • @amir1780
      @amir1780 Před 10 měsíci

      Yeah but it's not our language still

  • @stalin1909
    @stalin1909 Před 5 lety +32

    والله كنت بزيارة للمغرب ، وتبارك الله عليكم اخواني احسن شعب تعاملت معه على الاطلاق . وتعرفت على بعض الاخوة يتكلمون ( شلح) بالجنوب بامليل ، كتسلقت جبل توبقال الحمد لله معاهم.
    اعز الله المغرب واهل المغرب

  • @ahilmoubtassim3176
    @ahilmoubtassim3176 Před 4 lety +159

    Excellent work and explanations. I am Moroccan and I am positively surprised how you presented this Arabic dialect so particular from the others in the Arab world. And you even made some precise analysis of the way the sentences are built.
    Excellent job, which shows an excellent understanding of the darija and how it works compared to standard Arabic.

    • @parkhyung-mi467
      @parkhyung-mi467 Před 4 lety +7

      Yes..i was surprised too..how a foreign person can analyse our dialect in a very clear and instructive way..i am moroccan and i ve learnt a lot of things from this video..it's Amazing

    • @Democracyphobia
      @Democracyphobia Před 4 lety +4

      You definitely didn't get it . It's not an Arabic dialect .it's more of an amazigh dialect with Arab , French , Portuguese and Spanish words .

    • @abdelwahabazeddine7035
      @abdelwahabazeddine7035 Před 4 lety +1

      Il faut un regard externe pour analyser les mécanismes d'une langue qui pour ses locuteurs semblent triviaux, évidents. Pas étonnant que les grammairiens de la langue arabe les plus célèbres, soient d'origine non arabe. Pour se limiter aux plus connus : Ibn Ajroum, ibn Malik, Sibaweih, respectivement d'origine, berbère, andalouse et perse. Pour le second cité, ses biographes lui attribuent une origine qu'ils font remonter jusqu'à Qahtan, ancêtre mythique des arabes du Sud, mais étant d'origine andalouse, et connaissant le prestige de cette filiation arabe à l'époque d'al Andalous , il ne serait pas étonnant que cette généalogie que s'inventaient personnages illustres et gens ordinaires, soit fantaisiste, fallacieuse. Contrairement à ce qu'on observe aujourd'hui où cette filiation est vue comme une tare rédhibitoire, qu'on dissimule ou qu'on rejette violemment.
      Lorsque la civilisation arabo-musulmane rayonnait de tout son éclat, tous s'en réclamaient. Aujourd'hui tous la renient.
      La victoire a plusieurs pères, mais la défaite est orpheline.

    • @barinasr6806
      @barinasr6806 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Democracyphobia كذااااااب

    • @lets_wrapitup
      @lets_wrapitup Před 3 lety +3

      @@Democracyphobia It is definitely an Arabic dialect. The word darija itself is Arabic. Every language in world, especially colloquial language, has outside influence.

  • @hamzahalgabbary5529
    @hamzahalgabbary5529 Před 2 lety +4

    في اليمن نقول شاف بمعنى رأى او نظرَ و كمان نقول معندكش و معنديش. و عندما نتحدث بموضوع نقول قاعدين نهدر. و الهدرة عندنا الحديث كما هو الحال عند المغاربة. كل الحب لاخواننا المغاربة. و الحوت عندنا كمان السمكة.

    • @ee_th
      @ee_th Před 27 dny

      غريب لاحظت عندنا كثير كلمات مشتركة رغم انكم بعيدين جدا عن المملكة

  • @taha258
    @taha258 Před 2 lety

    Man you've made an incredible effort, and everything you said is 100% accurate

  • @FatalDsyr
    @FatalDsyr Před 4 lety +71

    I'm yemeni and I understand most of darija love to my moroccans my wife's from casablanca ❤️❤️❤️🇲🇦🇾🇪

    • @ilyesbouzidi7837
      @ilyesbouzidi7837 Před 4 lety

      @nice try167 I'm tunisian and I can understand as well haha

    • @user-ur2tk1do5s
      @user-ur2tk1do5s Před 4 lety

      @PTOLEMY OF MAURETANIA للاسف في بعض القبايل في جزيرة العرب يجرمون على نفسهم اختلاط الانساب لهذا السبب تكثر عندنا المطلقات بسبب هذه العادات الشنيعه والمحرمه في ديننا الاسلامي ايضاً، نسأل الله السلامة.

    • @Reemalarawi
      @Reemalarawi Před 4 lety

      I Am Groot تعال خوذ اختي

  • @redachraibi5993
    @redachraibi5993 Před 4 lety +52

    I’m extremely impressed at the accuracy of this video. Very good job!

  • @MrAno-op2mj
    @MrAno-op2mj Před rokem +4

    I am Syrian and I absolutely love your way of dialects/languages comparison. And I love the Moroccan Darija even though it is extremely difficult to understand.

  • @milikiyo8727
    @milikiyo8727 Před rokem

    Thank you! And well done.keep up the great work!

  • @Boubouchan1
    @Boubouchan1 Před 5 lety +178

    Dear moroccan brothers, you don't have to adjust your language, it's for the others to adjust to yours, just like we did with egyptian and syrian, it's not like we were born understanding it, we just made effort to learn it wthout asking anyone to adjust it.

    • @anasmoukhliss
      @anasmoukhliss Před 5 lety +8

      am a Moroccan and yes but all other Arabs so hard to understand darija . but we can speak other languages easy. so it's okey =) (my opinion)

    • @fatyyyyall1663
      @fatyyyyall1663 Před 5 lety

      LZBDUHDUZGZ8AHZISHH I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THAT I ALWAYS THINK LIKE THAT AND I SAW YOUR NAME I'M SORRY BUT I'M HAPPY TO SEE YOU'RE A ELF-SHAWOL LOVE YOU

    • @algerianomoorish85
      @algerianomoorish85 Před 5 lety

      kayena we tekoun weli ma beghach ta yakhod chi ma3djon

    • @whitetiger2910
      @whitetiger2910 Před 5 lety

      misterFazel Speak to them in Fusha and they will be obliged to adapt to you try to reverse the roles, i do that sometimes to force them to not use their dialect and to speak the same language as me which is Fusha

    • @alexilaiho1st
      @alexilaiho1st Před 5 lety +2

      @misterFazelI think that's pretty much the case for egyptians, they make no efforts as they expect you to adjust to them and don't ever wanna do the same for you. Stick to your own language, see who gets stuck first :D

  • @MrDiaz-ll3iw
    @MrDiaz-ll3iw Před 5 lety +278

    Yeah I am Turkmen annd Moroccans are my brothers amd sisters.
    (Haters will be hated)

  • @abdallahouazzani918
    @abdallahouazzani918 Před 2 lety +1

    your videos are so detailled, its like you lived here in Morocco! Cool stuff :D

  • @malazkarar1171
    @malazkarar1171 Před 3 lety

    Thanks for the explanation, as a Sudanese I've always tried my hardest to understand the Moroccan dialect, a lot of times i have to reply the audio a couple of times only to get the gist of things. I need me a Moroccan friend to listen to and learn. i feel like a middle eastern (that isn't Moroccan) understanding Moroccan darigi is a huge flex, let alone speaking the dialect!

  • @caseymclane1972
    @caseymclane1972 Před 5 lety +20

    I work for the World Cup atm, helping the fans to get their free-ride train tickets. The other day I met two moroccans who spoke Amazigh between themselves, sometimes changing to Darija, and with VERY little understanding of French. They wanted to go to Kaliningrad which is situated in a small portion of land in Europe, outside mainland Russia, so in order to get there by train, you have to cross borders with Belarus (with whom Russia has a customs union) and Lithuania (who didn't provide us that union even just for the time of the World Cup making it a pain in the ass), and thus you need a Shengen Visa which they didn't have. So the only option for them was to fly. So I had to explain to them all the intricacies of the situation as well as the options they had. They ended up calling their francophone friend in order for me to explain it to him in French so he would further explain it to them in Amazigh or Darija idk. Twas one hell of an affair I have to say haha :D

    • @caseymclane1972
      @caseymclane1972 Před 5 lety

      but I do speak fluent French though! it's them who didn't haha

    • @othmanbettach2665
      @othmanbettach2665 Před 5 lety

      i'm Moroccan my english is really better than my french lol

    • @gagnabil
      @gagnabil Před 5 lety +1

      Funny.. Morocco is part of the Francophonie organization. French is more spoken than English in the country.

  • @Dooge
    @Dooge Před 5 lety +151

    So many language channels uploaded today, waiting for Xidnaf :(

    • @orankirby3006
      @orankirby3006 Před 5 lety +21

      Dooge ikr navitlang uploaded as well

    • @Langfocus
      @Langfocus  Před 5 lety +60

      It's the weekend so we can do epic 36 hour final pushes to finish our videos with no sleep, and perhaps even live to tell about it.

    • @Dooge
      @Dooge Před 5 lety +18

      Oran Kirby nativlang doesn't upload often so waiting two months for a video isn't really a big wait, but conlang critic (if you know of him) hasn't uploaded in a long time compared to his usual and he uploaded today, as well as artifexian, feelsgoodman

    • @finnsalsa9304
      @finnsalsa9304 Před 5 lety +10

      Heck... Nativlang, Artifexial, Langfocus... Xidnaf better upload today or... wait... uh oh it's already 0.14 here. :(

    • @falconofbalasagun4163
      @falconofbalasagun4163 Před 5 lety +1

      Yamen S. يازلمي انت وين مارحت عم اتفشكل فيك

  • @yahyabadraoui2925
    @yahyabadraoui2925 Před 3 lety +1

    Well that is thorough as hell, love it !
    In the phrase about taking the bus to go to the school, the L at the beginning of "lmdrasa" is not a definitive article, but rather a compressed form of MSA's "ila" which means "to". It's a cluster of one consonnant, where all vowels of "ila" got silenced by Amazigh influence.
    "3and" doesn't mean "with" but rather "in the possession of". The word for "with" in darija is "m3a", close to MSA's "ma3a".
    In the phrase about beef and chicken, "ghadi" is a future marker indeed, but "ka" (or "ta") at the beginning of a verb is actually a present marker. Both can't be used simultaneously, we say "ghadi naklo" rather than "ghadi kanaklo". The word "ghadi" by itself means "going", so it's equivalent to the future continuous form "going to eat".