Levantine dialects across Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine share much in common but also have noticeable differences. The Levantine dialects are important parts of the mosaic of Arabic dialects spoken across the Middle East. The popularity of Syrian and Lebanese TV shows, television drama series, and music have contributed to these dialects being widely understood across the Arab world. In this episode, Mariam describes the similarities and differences across these closely related dialects by narrating and describing situational conversations in each dialect.
Lebanese Arabic Transcript and English Contextual Translation
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أهلا وسهلا بكل مستمعيننا عاللانغويج وايف بحلقة جديدة معي أنا مريم، عن موضوع بتصور رح تحبوه ورح يهمكن. ورح ندرب فيه سوا لفظنا للكلمات بجمل ومحادثات بسيطة وسهلة ومن مواقف يومية. موضوع حلقتنا لهالأسبوع عن فرق اللهجات أو اللكنات أو يعني الaccents بين لبنان، وسوريا، وفلسطين. محادثات بالإنكليزي يعني conversations.
Welcome to all our listeners on Language Wave, in a new episode with me Mariam, about a topic I imagine you will love and it will matter to you. Also, we will train in it together our pronunciation with sentences and conversations that are easy, simple, and from daily situations. The topic of our episode for this week is about the differences in dialects or accents between Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. Mohadaset in English means conversations.
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يمكن كتار ما يشوفو الفوارق بهاللهجات العربية التلاتة بارزين أو واضحين كتير، خاصة إذا ما كانو من هالبلدان، بس أهل هالبلاد التلاتة، واللي متل ما حكينا سابقا كانو هني والأردن منطقة وحدة ما بيفصلا حدود، بلاحظو وبينتبهو لهالفوارق كتير منيح، وسهل علين يعرفو أو يحددو الشخص من أي بلد جاي من خلال هالفوارق. بارزين بتعني بالإنكليزي distinguished أو noticeable.
Maybe a lot of people won’t see the differences in these three Arabic dialects distinguished or very clear, especially if they are not from these countries. But the people of these three countries, which we have previously spoke that they -along with Jordan- were one area unseparated by borders, notice and pay attention very well to these differences, and it is easy for them to tell or identify which country does a person comes from through these differences. Berzeen means in English distinguished or noticeable.