Every Phrase in This Arabic Book Tells You If It Is Yours to Say

The mistake that quietly undermines beginners

You learn a phrase, you use it, and something is slightly wrong — because the version you memorised was the one a man says, or the one said to a woman, and you are neither.

It is a small error that does large damage to confidence, and most beginner resources create it by printing one form and moving on.

Learn Arabic For Your Habibi marks every line.

(m) and (f), on every phrase in the book

Arabic shifts on both sides of a conversation. How you ask a man how he is differs from how you ask a woman. How a woman says please differs from how a man says it.

Every phrase in these forty pages carries its marking, so:

• You learn your own version first, the one you will genuinely use.
• You recognise the other version when it is said to you.
• You stop hedging. Certainty about form is most of what sounding fluent consists of.

The rest of the design follows the same logic

Replies printed next to phrases, so you are never left with half an exchange. Clear transliteration throughout, so no alphabet is required to begin. No grammar drills. Nineteen sections covering greetings, introductions, numbers, family, food, restaurants, work, travel, the household, shopping, gifts, colours and directions.

Spoken Levantine Arabic — the everyday variety of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine.

For complete beginners

No previous Arabic of any kind. A4 paperback, 40 pages, written by Daria Okhrimenko. AED 169 with free delivery anywhere in the UAE in two to four days.

Get Learn Arabic For Your Habibi and stop guessing which sentence belongs to you.