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Written by Algeria1960   
Sunday, 17 May 2009 09:34

My aplogies in adavance for my very poor knowledge of Darja. Can anyone recommend a book or CD I could buy which covers basic phrases in Darja for English language speakers. For example phrases like:


Thank you= Saha
Hello = ?
How are you = ?
Good morning = ?
Good afternoon = ?
Good evening = ?
My name is ... = ?
What is your name = ?
I hope you are well = ?
Good to see you again = ?
I'm grateful for your help = ?

If such a book does not exist perhaps a Basic Greetings section could be added to the Darja Beginners project.

If anyone could translate the above English phrases into Darja I would be very grateful. It would give me someting to practice.

Saha

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Nassiba
June 05, 2009
207.166.7.207
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Thank you= Saha
Hello = Assalam alaikoum
How are you = Kifash rak?
Good morning = Sbah alkhair
Good afternoon = Msal khair
Good evening = Msal khair
My name is ... = Wasmi.... or Asmi....
What is your name = Wasmek, or kifash sammak Allah?
I hope you are well = Inshallah raki bkhair
Good to see you again = 3ash men shafek
I'm grateful for your help = yarham waldeek (trans. bless your parents), yatik asaha (May He give you health)

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adam
June 25, 2009
115.132.86.76
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hi there. i tell you some thing no point to learn darja it's not useful. but you can use it in algeria center (alger). i would love if you can make an effort to learn the arabic language which is useful where ever you go at any arabic speeking country. and you can find a planty of online programme for teaching arabic language.

with best regards take care

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Minek lilah ya nakara
September 03, 2009
77.101.160.30
Votes: +1
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Salem alikoum,saha ftourkoum
I totaly agree with Adam, is better for people who want to learn Darja, to learn standard Arabic, cos is more useful than the darja, first the standard arabic is understandable and comprehensible, but the darja in other hand is only spoken in Algeria especially the one's we are talking about is in Algiers city.

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jen
October 15, 2009
194.176.105.42
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I really want to learn to understand and speak Darja to communicate with my husbands family

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ock
January 25, 2010
41.200.5.253
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Hi,
This will be helpful for you.
1. Darja grammer
http://lameen.googlepages.com/
2. book
"Arabe Algérien" ; Guide + CD Audio - Daniel Krasa, assimil
but, unfortunately, it is written in French.
so, with this book, I processed like following;
photoscan-saving tif file,
using ABBYY fine reader 6.0,charater recognition
translation french into english using google site!

That's all.


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