arabskaya-devushka:my (foreigner) friend once tagged me to show me this (taken from mundo lingo fa
arabskaya-devushka: my (foreigner) friend once tagged me to show me this (taken from mundo lingo facebook page) and i found it hilarious. but it also inspired me for a post idea. HOW TO TEXT IN ARABIC LIKE A NATIVE - THE BASICS let’s attack the “alphabet” first. so we use the latin alphabet bc of many reasons: some devices don’t dispose of an arabic one, we use a lot of french/english words and ofc the arabized english/french is better written with the latin letters. for the majority of the letters, we use their english equivalent like for ت it’s “t”, for س it’s “s”, for م it’s “m”, etc. for the letters that can’t be pronounced in englsih, we write them in numbers!! and here lies all the fun! :D unfortunately, north african and middle eastern don’t agree on some letters. so i’ll seperate the letters/numbers in 2 groups. the letters that are agreed on in all MENA: أ is 2 ع is 3 ذ is 4 خ is 5 ح is 7 the letters that are different in NA and ME: i’ll write the maghrebi version first then the middle eastern second. ق is 9 or 8 غ is 8 or 3′ this is all. here is me and one of my friends chatting. Practise! ;) back to that meme, u might understand now that it’s all wrong, except the word 7abibi ;) -- source link
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