Health Education Dialogue

Lesson objective

In this lesson, you will learn how to talk about health education, preventing illness, medicine and injections, pregnancy and childbirth, and hygiene and clean water.

Darija dialogue

Sumiya: s-salamu 3alaykum.

Christine: wa 3alaykum s-salam.

Sumiya: šftk l-barн f ṣ-ṣbiṭar. weš nti frmliya?

Christine: lla, maši frmliya u maši ṭbiba.

Sumiya: šnu xdmtk?

Christine: kan-tkllm m3a n-nas 3la ṣннthum u ṣннt wladhum.

Sumiya: weš kat-3ṭihum d-dwa?

Christine: ma-kan-3ṭihum-š d-dwa u ma-kan-dir-š libra. kan-gul l n-nas šnu xṣṣhum y-diru baš ma-y-mrḍu-š huma wlla wladhum. u kan-hḍr m3ahum 3la l-‘ahammiya dyal d-dwa d l-bir, u bit l-ma, u ġsil l-yddin, u d-dwa d l-krš.

Sumiya: mzyan. had š-ši muhim. u ṣaнbtk šnu kat-dir?

Christine: kat-gul lihum y-jlbu wladhum baš ma-y-mrḍu-š. u kat-šrн lihum šnu xṣṣhum y-diru ila ma-bġau-š y-wldu bzzaf. u kat-nṣн l-3yalat l-нamlat baš y-mšiu l ṣ-ṣbiṭar.

Sumiya: had š-ši mzyan. tbark lla 3likum.

Christine: lla y-bark fik.

English meaning: Sumiya asks Christine if she is a nurse, since she saw her at the health centre. Christine explains she is neither a nurse nor doctor, but talks to people about their and their children’s health — well water, toilets, hand-washing, and diarrhea medicine — without giving medicine or injections herself. Her friend encourages immunization, family planning, and prenatal visits for pregnant women.

Vocabulary and expressions

English	Darija
Health	ṣ-ṣннa
Health centre	ṣ-ṣbiṭar
Importance	l-‘ahammiya
Nurse	l-frmliya
Well	l-bir
Doctor	ṭ-ṭbib / ṭ-ṭbiba (f.)
Diarrhoea	l-krš
To become sick	mrḍ
To immunize	jlb
Medicine	d-dwa
To give birth	wld
Injection	libra
Pregnant	нamla

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