Arabic → English transcript

Peace, mercy and blessings of God be upon you. How are you and your homes? I hope you are well, healthy and productive, God willing.

How are you? The weather is good, how are you doing? Your friendship is beautiful.

Today I changed the spot a bit, I came to a place full of tourists and foreigners.

Sorry, I ditched the rule that I have to cook.

They ask me, they say, “Why don’t you speak Moroccan?”

I just wanted to answer, because I get this question a lot and I wanted to reply to them.

It is not that I do not speak Moroccan, on the contrary, I am proud of Moroccan Arabic.

Moroccan Arabic lifts my head up high, thank God.

But actually that content does not come to us Gulf people or desert people, who are the crazy ones

They are the ones who have the “makasheet” culture and the going-out culture only

If I speak in the Moroccan dialect

Moroccan, when the talk started coming out

I talk to you in our dialect, but no one is going to understand me

No matter how many things I say in our dialect, nobody understood me

I mean, even if I talk until morning, you can understand me

But someone else will not understand me

So actually, brother, on the contrary, I did not find a single flaw in my dialect.

Because the question came to me from a Saudi guy.

And they all ask me, and even Saudi women asked me the same question.

“Why don’t you speak in your own dialect?”

On the contrary, desert and southern people, and it is known that Moroccans master all dialects.

For us, bring me a Jew and I will talk with him.

Bring me a Bangladeshi and I will talk with him.

Bring me an Amazigh person and I will talk with him.

And this is my livelihood, so the language of communication has to play a role.

Look, when I explain to the customer, I have this and I have that…

Arabic coffee with cardamom, I have kabsa with whole spices and fat.

It really makes people understand correctly and know why they came.