Classical Arabic - A Welshman in Kuwait

Decided to record this to update an older video I had made on speaking Classical Arabic in Kuwait. in-shaa’Allah these details will help answer some of your questions. If you have more feel free to let me know

[@DrJefflang]

You're an absolute legend, bro. May Allah preserve you.

[@rasdiendiedericks7827]

Some nice feedback on your previous video. Explaining what is really happening on the streets when conversing with other Arabic speaking people. I just started my Arabic program. Will soon converse with you in Arabic.

[@TheDietNinja]

This video made me laugh 😂
Barak Allah feek Abu Yousef 🤲🏼🧡

[@afzalebrahim2144]

وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته
جزاك الله خيرا و بارك الله فيك
اني احبك في الله

[@user-qp4gb7pb6s]

ما شاء الله ، لكنك ذكرت كل البلدان العربية عدا بلاد الشام 😂 بارك الله فيك ووفقك الله اخي ، تحياتي يعقوب من الاردن

[@TheUrussu]

Мир тебе из России дорогой брат и всем мусульманам по миру

[@ilshattatar5879]

و عليكم السلام والرحمة الله وبركاته dear brother Abdurahiim

[@yahyatsb8709]

this explains my confusion from the last video. I thought you were talking to an Arab in the first video, so why didnt they understand classical ? so its settled now... Barakallahu fiik

[@a_fortiori_]

Thank you sir

[@thestudentofknowledge]

Had the same situation in Saudi.
My friend told not to say maa'a but instead moya

[@muammar007]

Saudi and Syrians understand classical Arabic. It's mostly the foreigners in the Gulf countries who go their for work don't understand classical Arabic because they didn't study it.

[@elkapitan75]

It's the same in Malaysia. We have many foreign workers from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Nepal, etc, and their employers would speak to them in a simplified version of bahasa which they then speak amongst themselves. But they do understand bahasa Malaysia. Sometimes I catch myself speaking the simplified version when conversing with the foreign workers.

[@AbdurahiimRoberts]

Interesting… Thanks for that.

[@rich4716]

Any tips for places online people can hear Arabic in the Kuwaiti (Gulf?) dialect?

[@mdmotahar96]

🇰🇼🇧🇩🇧🇩

[@mohamedriza886]

I'm jealous

[@johncitizen5843]

So how do you say "I need water" in local Arabic?

[@AbdurahiimRoberts]

Phonetically it sounds something like “Abi moya”

[@lifegamerpro4033]

@@AbdurahiimRoberts 80% Kuwaiti residents are foreigners .. Kuwaitis gen x is more British than Briton

[@AbdurahiimRoberts]

@@lifegamerpro4033 I must say that I sincerely appreciate the culture here in Kuwait. Very nice and respectful people Allahumma baarik.

[@lifegamerpro4033]

@@AbdurahiimRoberts yes I like Kuwaitis more than Saudi or emaratis... Kuwaiti speaks his mind directly good or bad .. direct expression of true emotions...may be good or bad...not like Lebanese...they have either yes or no but no chewing gum diplomacy....the beauty of Kuwait society is mixture of مسلم محمد البراك and Safa Al Hashem type of people... Ya Allah ji bless Kuwaitis and all

[@megasp]

​@@AbdurahiimRobertsأبي ماي.

[@Abdullah-mt9ns]

I love you for allah sake❤

[@haniffomar616]

Ya shiekh 😂 alhamdulilah
Zaman😊 never hear fr u

[@idressshah1011]

Man............. 😅

[@technologylover121]

I believe the Quran is the only written Classical Arabic now everything else is Modern Standard Arabic , MSA which is Classical Arabic but simplified e.g less vocabulary

[@AbdurahiimRoberts]

I have a library full of books that disagree with you

[@technologylover121]

So MSA and classical Arabic are the same in your opinion?@@AbdurahiimRoberts

[@AbdurahiimRoberts]

@@technologylover121 No - to see the difference, compare a Shaykh lecturing on usul alfiqh and a news reader

[@nightthemoon8481]

it's dead as in there are no native speakers, like latin, and the modern varieties are languages evolved from it that are alive

[@MAl-eo2cx]

No it's not dead. I write and speak with it all the time in twitter, youtube and other social media. I also use it when teaching maths in school, a lot do the same when teaching in schools and Uni's.

[@nightthemoon8481]

I mean that no one speaks it natively, how do you use it at school though? what country?@@MAl-eo2cx

[@AbdurahiimRoberts]

I just spent 3 hours this evening listening to a talk in classical Arabic and talking to people in classical Arabic. There were well over 400 people there doing the same.

[@MAl-eo2cx]

​@@nightthemoon8481 I believe we do speak it nativity more than you think.

[@nightthemoon8481]

@@AbdurahiimRoberts i agree that we can get to very high levels maybe even C1, but not quite native level because a lot of the idioms, niche words, etc are no longer used, like a lot of stuff in the Quran has to be interpreted sometimes because they had words that we don't use anymore, like there are 400 ways to say "lion" in classical Arabic