!السلام عليكم
We are moving super quickly in my Arabic class! We do around two chapters a week, and surprisingly I am picking it up really well. However, the dialect of Morocco, دريج (Darija) is an amalgam of French, the Amazir language, Spanish and classical Arabic, فصحى (Fus-ha), so sometimes it is a bit difficult to understand what people are saying to me. However, a lot of people here know English to some degree since there are a lot of tourists that visit. After class today, we explored the Old City streets by my house and I bought a cream puff for 1 Dirham, which is equivalent to about 12 cents. 12 cents definitely well spent! I also bought a cloth pencil case for 10 dirhams, which is a little bit above a dollar. I think I've got bargaining down -- name a quarter of the price that the shopkeeper says and slowly haggle to one-third or one-half of the original price. It's was initially super hard for me, because I didn't want to insult the shopkeeper!
The street that I live on is one of the main streets of the Old City, and it leads to Bab Bejloud, one of the gateways of the city, and to a royal quarter where people will pray. I saw both today.
!مع سلامة
-Naheed
We are moving super quickly in my Arabic class! We do around two chapters a week, and surprisingly I am picking it up really well. However, the dialect of Morocco, دريج (Darija) is an amalgam of French, the Amazir language, Spanish and classical Arabic, فصحى (Fus-ha), so sometimes it is a bit difficult to understand what people are saying to me. However, a lot of people here know English to some degree since there are a lot of tourists that visit. After class today, we explored the Old City streets by my house and I bought a cream puff for 1 Dirham, which is equivalent to about 12 cents. 12 cents definitely well spent! I also bought a cloth pencil case for 10 dirhams, which is a little bit above a dollar. I think I've got bargaining down -- name a quarter of the price that the shopkeeper says and slowly haggle to one-third or one-half of the original price. It's was initially super hard for me, because I didn't want to insult the shopkeeper!
The street that I live on is one of the main streets of the Old City, and it leads to Bab Bejloud, one of the gateways of the city, and to a royal quarter where people will pray. I saw both today.
One side of the Bab Bejloud! It's blue on the other side!
!مع سلامة
-Naheed
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