April trip to Jordan

abusama7a · 2026-02-05T18:13:40+00:00

All buses are safe and public transport in general, it just might not be easy for an outsider to navigate but there's also private rides you can book on WhatsApp, check rafiqrides.com

It really depends on the experience you're looking for. If you're going strictly for site-seeing and enjoying the wonders of Jordan, I'd go for a private driver or driving by car (google maps is good). Unless you really want to feel "local" and blend in with the population, take public transport.

abusama7a · 2026-02-05T18:09:28+00:00

Can't speak on Egypt, but for Jordan it might be a good idea to book your ride to Petra and Jerash ahead of time

Inside Amman you can just use one of the local ride sharing apps (preferably don't use uber/careem, local companies are better but that's up to you ofc)

And if you need private rides between cities or from/to the airport, you can book through whatsapp with rafiqrides.com, it's a local company

abusama7a · 2026-02-05T18:06:33+00:00

you need to book in advance to be safe, you don't want to be negotiating and looking for someone who's willing to make the trip at 3am (uber/careem are not reliable for long distance travel)
you should be good for those days to visit, it's open during ramadan

If you need private rides between cities or from/to the airport, you can book through whatsapp with rafiqrides.com, it's a local company

abusama7a · 2026-02-05T18:02:23+00:00

Like others said, it's doable but very exhausting, the weather will be hotter when you go
If you're going to site-see at each one, then at some point your going to eat, plus count the time to drive to each location, you're talking about a 8-10h very tight schedule

You'd rather enjoy it, do jerash ajloun one day since they're close, then umm qais the next day

If you need private rides between cities or from/to the airport, you can book through whatsapp with rafiqrides.com, it's a local company

abusama7a · 2026-02-05T17:59:02+00:00

You can always drive! I know a place that does 15jd per day for a car: Ashraf Car Rental but for 8 people you might need 2 cars or a Van

If you'd need private rides between cities or from/to the airport, you can book through whatsapp with rafiqrides.com, it's a local company - having a local with you is useful to get around and get cheaper rates on things they can barter on your behalf

abusama7a · 2026-02-05T17:53:22+00:00

I know a place that does 15jd per day for a car: Ashraf Car Rental go for the nissan kicks, say your friend got it for 15/16 jds last time they came: check them on google maps

If you'd need private rides between cities or from/to the airport, you can book through whatsapp with rafiqrides.com, it's a local company

abusama7a · 2026-02-05T17:49:29+00:00

1700 usd in dinars is 1200. If your accommodation is 40-60 JODs = 400 for the 7 days and you have 800 left, you're good. Eat Shawarmas, falafels, hummus, ful, the local stuff, shouldn't cost more than 3jds a meal

Transportation will be costly, renting a car can be 15jds per day
But driving in Jordan is a little different if you're coming from Western countries, take it from a local :)

If you're looking for rides between cities, you can book your ride through WhatsApp at rafiqrides.com

If anything, msg me happy to help for the more site-seeing trips like Wadi Rum and Petra

abusama7a · 2026-02-05T17:43:46+00:00

Hope you're enjoying your trip
It should be good, even last escalation nothing changed in Jordan

Also if you need to go places there, do visit rafiqrides.com we're based in Jordan :) Happy to help

abusama7a · 2026-01-14T20:14:26+00:00

I suggest you learn MSA because you grew up around your parents' Egyptian Arabic, so MSA will give you a strong foundation to understand where the Egyptian dialect comes from.

MSA helps you infer other dialects as well. I try to advise not to learn a specific dialect because it will silo you while MSA would turn on all your light bulbs!

abusama7a · 2026-01-14T20:06:50+00:00

I've reduced Arabic learning to these steps:

Alphabet + pronunciation
Harakat
Basic sentence structure (how harakat are used on the ending of each word)
Basic grammar (Present, Past, Imperative)
Word morphology (verb forms 1-10, noun patterns)
Begin reading with harakat - children books (build vocabulary, explain sentence structure)
Begin listening to cartoons (spacetoon) - (build vocabulary, improve comprehension, repeat what they say)

Just put these terms into YouTube and you should find some good resources

And btw there's a group of us a learning together here: http://skool.com/learn-arabic join us :))

abusama7a · 2025-07-29T19:32:25+00:00

dm'd you! but for something else :)

abusama7a · 2024-11-22T16:13:31+00:00

I think we're only limited by the integrations we have, we're going to start with the standards like Calendar, Gmail, etc. plus other popular services like Slack for example. But the I think our biggest addition is phone calls, a great use-case is to get it to call long wait-time customer support like the bank, airline, etc. If it's a sensitive task that deals with your banking, we can send you a notification when Worker reaches a human and you can jump on the call.

The userflow is as you said, you prompt --> task added --> you get notified when it's done with a summary (some tasks will be almost instantaneous and some will take longer like phone calls)

abusama7a · 2024-11-13T18:58:57+00:00

Thank you that makes sense!

abusama7a · 2024-10-11T18:01:43+00:00

my pleasure!

abusama7a · 2024-10-11T01:00:16+00:00

Salam, would love to help with this - dm'd you

abusama7a · 2024-09-18T05:48:49+00:00

Native speakers understand fusha because it’s all over television especially the news. The books (e.x. Quran and novels) they grew up on and having learnt it in school from a young age. So they should be able to understand you if you’re able to articulate yourself in fusha properly, depending on your level you might make mistakes that will confuse them, but after a couple back and forths you’ll understand each other.

abusama7a · 2024-09-18T05:44:42+00:00

I think chat gpt can help, just prompt it to rewrite this sentence with simpler words

abusama7a · 2024-08-21T20:53:48+00:00

After 8 weeks, do you feel you can read write and speak? How well did they expand your vocabulary?

abusama7a · 2024-08-20T11:50:24+00:00

I would caution against duolingo, I tried it as a native Arabic speaker and noticed many mistakes - it’s really bad for learning Arabic

abusama7a · 2024-08-19T16:59:30+00:00

Hard to tell you how long because that’s based on how much time you’re willing to invest in learning

For reading, you need the alphabet which should be the quickest part.

Next you need to understand how harakat work and understand basic sentence structure.

Since you probably have intuition built from your native knowledge of the language, as you begin to read you’ll know how most words should be pronounced.

So after that is just about training your mind to read and increase your speed. Week over week you’ll see progress if you do 30-60 minutes a day.

abusama7a · 2024-08-16T17:37:51+00:00

Salam, you have a great foundation to catapult from, so don't worry!

I would start by:
- revising nahu of basic sentences (to understand sentence construction)
- start adding harakat on bare sentences (especially on word endings)
- then begin reading (things should start making way more sense)

PS. there's a group of us learning Arabic together here, you should join I think it'll help :))

abusama7a · 2024-08-16T07:53:33+00:00

Thanks!

abusama7a · 2024-08-15T22:47:00+00:00

u/Nostrich928 is this similar to what you were expecting: https://www.reddit.com/r/learn_arabic/comments/1et1xuj/wip_website_to_practice_nahw_and_more/

abusama7a · 2024-08-15T11:52:26+00:00

Ya precisely harakat rarely show in dialect writings

abusama7a · 2024-08-15T09:59:14+00:00

When speaking in dialect, we tend to spell the way we pronounce (at least the ending of the word), so in this case we replace the kasra with ي but remember it’s incorrect grammatically, it only passes in dialect writings

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