hello everyone and welcome to our video series on learning moroccan arabic for beginners it is lesson number two which is going to be about introducing yourself so in this lesson i'm going to give you a collection of the most important introduction phrases that you can use to totally impress your friends let's get started let's start with how to ask for people's names shno smitak schno smitak i need you to listen carefully and try to repeat after me now to respond to that you will just say smeaty and then you add your name for example my name is nosar i would say smithy no sayer smithy nosir as you can see the word smithy literally stands for my name another way to say your name is using the expression anna for example anna nossare anna john anna alexandra etc so here i used my personal pronoun which is ana ana which stands for i so i'm literally saying i no sire just keep in mind that moroccan derija doesn't require any auxiliary verbs or helping verbs such as the verb to be in english don't panic yet this is something cool and we'll talk about it in another video now let's go to see another way to say your name this one is pretty formal we say ano smithy and then you add your name again ano smithy nosir so it's like i'm saying i my name nassar so it's the kind of a combination between the personal pronoun ana which stands for i and the words meaty which stands for my name now let's put together all the three ways of saying our names smitty anna and smitty so they all mean the same except the last one as i said earlier it's a bit formal now let's go to see how to ask people where they come from once again all right guys now i need you to repeat it okay can you try to do it very good now keep in mind that this one is masculine the feminine one is benign so the word enta stands for you masculine and the word in t stands for you feminine now let's go to see how to respond to this question you would say ana men and then you add the name of your country and amen which means i am from for example i would say an amen maghrib which means morocco once again annaman don't worry not all the countries are very hard to say like that there are some countries that are pronounced pretty similar such as the let's take for example italy we say italia [Music] germany this one is a bit different so you can just add the name of your country to learn more about various countries nationalities languages you can just watch our next video it's going to be about that so make sure to subscribe to our youtube channel if you still haven't so you don't miss this very useful video now let's move to the next introduction phrase ano which means i live in once again ana and then you add the name of your country your city or your address just keep in mind that in moroccan derija it is very common for people to omit the personal pronoun anna because it is already included as the prefix of the verb kanskun so these three letters in yellow color are considered to be the representative of the personal pronoun anna so the personal pronoun ana is not something that you always need to say because it is already included in the verb so the sentence would be something like cans let's see some examples you can say cans con fu peris cans conf peris i live in paris or you can say ken schoon of new york i live in new york can conformat robot is the capital city of morocco or you can say cans confer maracas the most popular moroccan city you can also say your country for example let's say cansconfrocia or casconn almania or etc etc anyways now let's go to the next expression canada which means i speak english you know what i really want you to repeat this one i'm gonna give you three seconds very good but let's break it down a little bit it seems like there is no indication in this phrase because the personal pronoun anna is not included actually it is already there as the prefix k-a-n or can so once we hear the prefix can before any verb it is very obvious that the speaker is using the personal pronoun i but it's still possible to use the personal pronoun anna which means i to express emphasis so it is a matter of emphasis anyways whether you say ana canada lingerie or you're just going to say kanehadar lingriza both phrases are correct and of course you can replace the language ling lisa with other languages that you speak such as farancia french kanedar farancilla or kannada derija moroccan arabic or you can say which means a little bit and it is one of the most common expressions in morocco all right now let's go to see the next expression which is anata i'm a student this one is masculine the feminine one is so we just added letter a at the end of talib to turn it into feminine and similarly if you're talking about your profession for example anna ustad anakustad i'm a teacher for masculine the feminine one is ana ustada we added letter a again ana ustada the last expression we are going to see now is macharfin macharfin nice to meet you i think it's a bit harder to pronounce it right okay so let's do something we're gonna separate it out into three sections to make it easier for you to say it correctly so the first one is met met the second one is char char sure and the last one is finn finn finn metcharfin metcharfin all right that's it for now shukran for watching this video if you like it please give it a thumbs up share it with your friends and don't forget to subscribe to our channel so you don't miss any of our video lessons until i see you again goodbye for now