Signs in Arabic
You can avoid potential embarrassment and frustration if you understand these important signs in Arabic. The Rocket Arabic team wants to ensure you never walk into the wrong restroom, light up in a no-smoking area, or have your vehicle towed from a no-parking spot!
Most of the time you’ll probably only need to recognize the written Arabic word or phrase, but we’ve included audio so you can listen to the Arabic pronunciation. This way you’ll be able to find out if something is open or closed, or more importantly, on sale!
How to pronounce signs in Arabic
As hard as you try, without helpful feedback your Arabic pronunciation is never going to be the same as a native speaker’s. If you've found it difficult to perfect the way you say Arabic words and phrases, this lesson will help you.
Using the blue Rocket Record buttons you can record the way you say each word or phrase, and compare it with the way a native speaker of Arabic does. That’s right, with Rocket Languages voice mapping technology you can record your voice as many times as you need until your pronunciation matches the Arabic speaker!
When you buy food in a supermarket and don’t intend to eat it straight away it might pay to check the ‘best before date’ to avoid nasty surprises…
Public smoking is legally banned in almost all states of India. So it might be helpful to learn what “Mamnou3 el tad7`een” means.
Sometimes you will see big bright colored signs in nearly every store window. There must be a sale on…
That’s it for this lesson. I hope you had fun!
Bye باي
Amira
Rocket Arabic
P.S. You can practice your Arabic skills with this exercise.
Exercise: Match the Arabic phrases with the correct English translation.
| 1. mo7`afad | (______) | a. Best before… |
| 2. Mamnou3 el tad7`een | (______) | b. Open |
| 3. sayedat | (______) | c. No smoking |
| 4. maftou7 | (______) | d. Reduced |
| 5. enteha2 el sala7eya | (______) | e. Ladies |
