Features ยท Dialect Match
Learn to tell the Arabic dialects apart
Egyptian, Levantine, Moroccan Darija and Modern Standard Arabic say everyday things differently. Read or hear a word, guess the dialect, and see all four side by side after every answer.
Every answer shows all four
Right or wrong, you see how each dialect says the same thing: ุฃูุง ูููุณ in Cairo, ุฃูุง ู ููุญ in Beirut, ูุงุจุงุณ in Casablanca and ุฃูุง ุจุฎูุฑ in Fusha. Recorded words have a play button for each.
Read it, hear it, or find it
Three kinds of question: see a word and name its dialect, listen to a native recording and do the same, or get a meaning and a dialect and pick the right form from four.
Only fair questions
Where two dialects write a word the same way, it is never asked about. Every question has one answer you can defend.
Common questions
Can Egyptians and Moroccans understand each other?
Mostly, with effort. Egyptian is understood almost everywhere thanks to film and TV, but Darija is hard for other Arabs to follow because of its different vocabulary and faster, vowel-light speech. Fusha is the shared ground.
Is this useful if I only learn one dialect?
Yes. You will meet speakers of other dialects, and knowing the common swaps (shu for eh, hallaq for dilwa2ti) stops them from catching you out.
How many words are in the game?
Over seventy, from everyday words that differ by dialect, household words with recordings, and common phrases written for all four dialects.
Try it in your dialect
Egyptian, Levantine, Moroccan Darija or Modern Standard Arabic. Free to start, no card needed.
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