Shopping in Arabic

What could be better travel preparation than a free lesson on shopping in Arabic? Learn how to find your way around a shopping center, ask for what you want, and how to pay in Arabic. Need a larger size? Looking for a supermarket? No problem.

How do you say you’d like to try on an item of clothing? How do you ask for the closest ATM? You can master this essential travel Arabic by listening to the pronunciation on the audio and practicing the Arabic words and phrases aloud. And don’t be shy - shopping will be a lot more fun after this Rocket Arabic lesson!

Pronunciation help for shopping in Arabic

In this lesson all gender specific words will be in the feminine form.

Once you’ve found the right shop, you need to find what you’re looking for. Use the following words and phrases to find what you need, figure out how much it costs and tell the sales assistant how many you want…

Here are some more useful questions and answers.

Here are the words for some items you might be looking for…

Once you found what you were looking for, you’ll need to pay.

That’s it for this lesson. Now, you are well prepared for your next shopping experience.

For more lessons on Arabic vocabulary I recommend these!

Understand signs in Arabic. A super handy lesson (especially if you need to go to the toilet!)
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This lesson covers the essential vocab for tools in Arabic.
Need to know how to use a computer in Arabic?

!مع السلامة
Ma3a essalama!
Goodbye!

Amira Zaki
Rocket Arabic

Testing!

Test yourself with the Rocket Arabic testing tools! Improve your knowledge of Arabic!

Note that the tests below are listed from easiest to hardest.

Hear It Say It!

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Improve your understanding of spoken Arabic. With Hear it Say it! you can tune your ear to Arabic, increase your vocabulary and improve your pronunciation at the same time! Ready?

Click the Get Started button below
LISTEN to the audio (and touch up your pronunciation with Rocket Record if you like; Chrome/Firefox/Edge desktop browsers only)
Click REVEAL to see the word/phrase and see the translation
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See how many words you've rated at each level below. Just click on the number below each rating to review your words and phrases.

Write It!

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Write it! helps you to improve your written Arabic and your understanding of sentence structures. Just listen to the audio and type in what you hear!