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loooooooooooolll i agree about mauve , but since u dont like to invovle french words in darija , i said 9ou9i thats better than banafsaji 


ps- sorry i didnt find a good mic ... so i couldnt REC the numbers video ... ill do it soon

Admin wrote:

[...] I prefer a fos7a word than a French one. [...]

It's ok as a personal attitude, but it's not good to learners. When I first arrived to Morocco I didn't speak darija. I was able to understand only a few words: the french and spanish origine words that exists in darija. As long as I was learning I found a big problem speaking with natives: they try to high their language level when they notice that you are foreigner. Because of the prestige of the arabic: people who have studied, they speak arabic fus7a. People who didn't go to school, no. So they try to look like more cult picking up arabic words where they usually say french or spansh words. But that they get is that I understand nothing.

When I speak with analphabet people is perfect because they don't try to impress anybody: pure darija, coming stright from their mothers. And I can assure you darija in use is crowded of spanish and french origin words. Are they worse than arabic words? No, but people seems nowadays prefeer these, so they are constructing a new darija.

I added annotations for mdadi and baaj.