How to Learn Iraqi Arabic

Around 30,000,000 people speak Iraqi Arabic as their native language, and most of the remaining 7,000,000 people in Iraq speak it as a second language. In spite of this, there are few resources devoted to the language — especially relative to Levantine Arabic and Egyptian Arabic, its more popular cousins. This post is an attempt to remedy that. In 2019, I spent five months working for a German organization, mostly based in Iraq. Although I spent some time in Ankawa, I was mostly based in Baghdeda, Iraq’s largest Catholic city, around 20 minutes from Mosul. Although Iraqi Arabic is the primary language in neither of these locations — with most Christians speaking Neo-Aramaic — it was the lingua franca in both locations. <a href="https://medium.com/@xavierbisits/how-to-learn-iraqi-arabic-bd468eff29e5">Click Here</a>