Learn Moroccan Arabic – getting help

Continuing our series of useful phrases in Moroccan Arabic, this week we take a look at how to ask for help. Before your stay in a Moroccan riad or hotel, it’s always helpful to have noted down a few key phrases in case you need to communicate with someone who doesn’t speak English.

Here are a few key phrases:

Can you help me? – Wakha t3awnni?*

I don’t speak Arabic – Ma kanhdersh l’erbia

I don’t understand – Ma fhemtsh

Where is the toilet? – Fin kaynin twalit?

*The “3″ in this word is the sound produced when you pull the back of your tongue back into your throat a bit.