Well, it’s my last day in Morocco, so I wanted to devote a final post to the languages spoken here, in particular Moroccan Arabic, also known as Darija (which means ‘dialect’ in Arabic). I looked back at my on-and-off blog, Mary of Arabia, at the posts I wrote while living in Morocco, and pulled a selection. If you have any interest in Arabic, or just in the crazy path of learning a language, you might enjoy.
Past posts about Moroccan Arabic
Intro to Darija and why I wanted to learn it
That moment when you realize that everyone speaks more languages than you do
Learning a new alphabet = brain explosions
How to say ‘two’ in Moroccan Arabic
The pleasure of small victories in language learning
The excitement of my first Arabic text messages
Complaining in Arabic and winning
Top 10 phrases in Moroccan Arabic
More nerding out over Turkish-Arabic cognates
Sometimes you just need to be negative in a foreign language
Life in translation after 16 lessons of Arabic
The rare and exciting moment when you recognize a word in Arabic
Multilingual Facebook chatting with a friend
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