Proficiency in Standard Arabic is significantly lower than in Darija. Both can be used in a professional context, but for different tasks. Arabisation is a complex issue in Morocco.
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Darija and standard Arabic (MSA) are the most common languages in Morocco. They are difficult to learn, so what should you do if you speak English only? Options depend on your situation
It's impossible to do Moroccan genealogical research without speaking Arabic. Because 95% of sources that are more than half a century old are in Arabic.
Although Arabic is the official language and the language of the Koran, it is not always well spoken in Morocco, and although the article in "Bien Dire" explains this, it oversimplifies the situation... and underestimates the use of written Arabic.
Arabic uses the word sardine to refer to our little Mediterranean fish. But what if it was a Berber word?
Mediterranean languages have been mixing for a very long time, what Louis-Jean Calvet calls "mixed languages", with examples from Antiquity to the present day.
17 Arabic words in a English text of 315 words, in all areas of everyday life. All you have to do is read the characters to speak Arabic!
Arabic is present in English as much as in French (less so than in Spanish). Take this test to see if you can identify the words of Arabic origin that you use every day.
