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Everyday Conversational Arabic: Practical Phrases for Real Life
This course helps you start speaking Arabic in everyday situations such as greetings, shopping, eating out, and getting around. You will learn high‑frequency phrases, basic pronunciation, and simple conversation patterns you can immediately use with native speakers.
Course Content
8 modules · 2h total
Getting Started: Sounds, Greetings, and Essentials
Learn how Arabic sounds work, practice core greetings, and master a small set of essential survival phrases for everyday interaction.
Small Talk Basics: How Are You and Simple Conversations
Build short, friendly exchanges using common small talk questions and responses, including asking how someone is and talking about your day.
Numbers, Time, and Everyday Details
Learn to use numbers, time expressions, and basic descriptors so you can handle everyday details like saying the time, age, and prices.
Out and About: Asking for Directions and Getting Around
Practice phrases for moving around a city: asking for directions, understanding simple instructions, and using transport-related vocabulary.
Food and Drink: Cafés, Restaurants, and Invitations
Learn practical phrases to order food and drinks, handle menus, and respond to invitations in Arabic-speaking contexts.
Shopping and Money: Prices, Bargaining, and Everyday Purchases
Develop the language needed to shop in markets and stores, ask about prices, and handle simple bargaining politely.
Daily Life: Routines, Plans, and Simple Narratives
Use Arabic to talk about your daily routine, simple future plans, and recent activities in short, clear sentences.
Putting It All Together: Real-Life Dialogues and Practice
Integrate everything you have learned into short, realistic dialogues for travel, socializing, and everyday errands in Arabic.
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In this step you will learn core greeting and polite expressions in Arabic. All items are in Modern Standard Arabic but are also widely understood across the Arab world.
### 1. Greeting and reply pattern
A very common Arabic greeting is: