Today we're gonna be learning four pieces of Kuwaiti slang. Now...
maybe you're not Kuwaiti and maybe you just fancy learning some Kuwaiti slang
maybe you're going there to work or to visit or to check it out or just to see
the sights of Kuwait I made a video called living in Kuwait if you want to
see the sights just watch the video you don't need to go there but it's a cool
place to go anyway I digress the first word I'm going to teach you right now
in Kuwaiti slang is this one
and it's spelled like that and what this means it's like it's kind of like a
pretty loose party like if you go to someone's party and it's like it's a bit
crazy like people are kicking off there's all sorts of like slightly
questionable perhaps slightly debaucherous activities going on then
you might say this party ... but you wouldn't
actually say it because I kind of mixed up the fusha and the slang there but
samardaHa means like a loose party so say you're like watching
England play Sweden in Soho on a Saturday night and it's 35 degrees and
at the same time you've got like Pride Festival and they're like fights and
there's like parties and there's all sorts of things happening all at once
then you might say how was last night? SamardiHa samardiHa
mental crazy
second word is this
father quarter what the... does this mean?
so you know how in England or in
the UK or in the US or probably in other countries as well you've got like your
dollar store your pound store your euro store do you have those in Germany in
France probably you have like a bit of a tacky store - it looks a bit cheap
like say walking past a restaurant and like the doors hanging off a rat just
ran out of it there's two blokes in there one looks like he may or
may not be dead and the other one looks like he's probably either asleep or kind
of about to fall off his chair you might look at that place and you might think
looks a bit tacky looks a bit of a dive looks a bit of a hole I
want to kind of avoid that place I don't want to go in there I don't want to take
my fiance to this place I don't want to take my grandmother who's come to visit
me all the way from Pakistan to this place you know you get I give you some
idea if you want to describe somewhere that's a bit dodgy a bit questionable
a bit skeptical you want to be a bit skeptical of this place then you can say
number three
now if you know arabic you might know this verb
three letters and what this means is fail but what it also
means is like... awkward like if I said to you - do you wanna come and hang out with
me and my ex-girlfriend and my ex-girlfriends mate and then her
ex-boyfriend all together you might be like 'fashala' you know like I'm all
right thanks don't fancy it I'd rather not tbh... so fashala means
like 'i'm alright thanks' if you're like what well ask can I say like say there's
like a friend who like you haven't seen for ages and you know you you've been
away at uni and then you come back and they're like oh hey do you want to come
out and hang out with me and my family we're going to pick some strawberries
you might be like 'fashala' I mean... is that correct? if you're Kuwaiti comment
comment below and explain if you're not Kuwaiti you're watching this to learn
then I do often say to my students then write down below in the comments you
know write down in the comments a question - someone will answer it either
me or someone else and read the comments as well because a lot of most of my
audience is Arabic they speak Arabic as a first language and they do correct me
they keep me on my toes they keep me very particular they keep me very on the
ball and accurate and precise with what I teach you in checking that it's
correct so yeah read it down in the comments for
any other other kind of descriptions of this meaning but 'fashala' it's kind of
like oh that's awkward I'm not sure I want to do that it has
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there ok back to lesson fourth and finally
I think it's my favorite one is this...
the fourth and final one I think is my favorite and it is this
machine chicken machine chicken what's a machine chicken I hear you ask well you
know those chickens which are like a golden-brown big fat juicy
I shouldn't say juicy cuz you know you shouldn't necessarily imply or assume
you're gonna eat them but you probably are
they're very robust... they've got a big breast and they've got big feathers
that's like a good organically fed chicken it's only eaten the best corn
the best grain from the best field from the best farmer with the best filtered
water that's like a good chicken now you know how you can also get those little
chickens which don't have any feathers they've probably got like a rash on
their head they've got like a red face they don't have much skin they've been
factory farmed they've been bred for meat probably for KFC or Texas chicken or
Churches Chicken wherever whatever you call it where you from and they
basically look like they're soulless their diet... like pretty pretty sad
existence to be honest but this video is not about animal welfare it's about Kuwaiti
Arabic so let's get back to it 'dijaj makeena' I said dijaj
but Kuwaitis say 'diyai'
like they say 'majboos diyai' for one of their favorite meals
looks like this and it's a nice nice meal of like chicken and rice or
delicious if you ever go to kuwait
if you ever feel like one of those chickens
which has been raised and born in a battery
farm and you're like you've had a cage and you've just been force-fed food for
like six months until you're big enough to then (chop) and eat then you're probably
if you've had a really bad day something really bad is happening like you've been
in the library for 12 hours you've forgotten who you are who your family is
what day it is who the Prime Minister is who the president is you've forgotten
what year it is you feel like
like I'm dying right now like I'm dead I have no soul I've lost my body my
body my soul my mind my thoughts my brain has all gone that is diyai makeena
thanks for watching this little video about Kuwaiti slang
I'm Arabic Mike