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Darija Academy — C2.2
The twelfth level of Darija Academy’s free course. Master Moroccan Arabic pronunciation sound by sound, then dive into advanced grammar: the definite article, transitive/passive verbs, the past progressive, and participles.
Pronunciation of Moroccan Arabic
An introduction to how speech sounds are physically produced.
Read Lesson →Voiced and Voiceless Sounds
Feel the difference with your hand on your throat.
Read Lesson →Emphatic Sounds “ṣ,” “ḍ” and “ṭ”
Deeper, more tense versions of s, d, and t.
Read Lesson →The Definite Article
How Arabic ‘al’ becomes Darija’s l- or a doubled letter.
Read Lesson →Making Intransitive Verbs Transitive
Double the middle consonant to mean ‘make someone do X.’
Read Lesson →Common Transitive Verb Forms
A reference list of intransitive/transitive verb pairs.
Read Lesson →Past Progressive for “Used To”
The same structure also expresses old habits.
Read Lesson →Introduction to Verb Participles
What participles are and how they behave like adjectives.
Read Lesson →Active-Participial Examples
See participles express completed action, condition, or current state.
Read Lesson →Active Participles for Current Actions
Verbs like sit, wear, and sleep that need the participle for ‘now.’
Read Lesson →Passive-Participial Examples
Made of silver, written, open — passive participles in use.
Read Lesson →Verbs with Only One Participle
When one form covers both the doer and the receiver.
Read Lesson →Examples of Single Participles
Travelling, relaxed, garnished, covered, and hidden.
Read Lesson →More Useful “God Phrases”
Blessings, sympathy, and congratulations expressions.
Read Lesson →“нašak” and Other Polite Expressions
Politeness markers for sensitive topics and homecomings.
Read Lesson →More Everyday Expressions
Common phrases for agreement, urgency, and small talk.
Read Lesson →Moroccan Holidays
An introduction to Moroccan religious and festive traditions.
Read Lesson →The Islamic and Gregorian Calendars
How Morocco’s two calendar systems relate.
Read Lesson →Islamic Months and Festivals
All twelve months and their associated holidays.
Read Lesson →Ramadan and the Night of Power
Fasting rules and the significance of Laylat al-Qadr.
Read Lesson →Moroccan National Holidays
Four civil holidays tied to modern Moroccan history.
Read Lesson →The Throne Festival
Morocco’s largest civil holiday, marking the King’s accession.
Read Lesson →Regional Festivals
Cherry, date, rose, honey, and folklore festivals by region.
Read Lesson →The Imilchil Market Festival
A historic High Atlas gathering, market, and bride tradition.
Read Lesson →Participating in Moroccan Festivals
How to find festivals and understand local customs.
Read Lesson →Introduction to the Verb Glossary
How the glossary lessons present each verb’s forms.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Attention to Bathe
Attention, avoid, bargain, bark, and bathe.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Begin to Camp
Begin, believe, birth, boil, break, bring, build, buy, camp.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Capture to Collapse
Capture, catch, celebrate, change, cheat, choose, clean, close.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Collect to Count
Collect, come, complain, confess, cook, cope, cost, count.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Cram to Describe
Cram, create, cry, cut, damage, dance, decide, describe.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Deserve to Dream
Deserve, destroy, die, dig, direct, divide, divorce, dream.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Dress to Enter
Dress, drink, drive, drown, eat, embrace, encourage, enter.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Envy to Feed
Envy, escape, exhibit, explain, fail, fall, fast, feed.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Feed Fodder to Fry
Feel, fill, find, finish, fix, fly, forget, forgive, fry.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Fulfil to Give Pain
Fulfil, gain, gather, get, get up, give, give back.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Glare to Have
Glare, go, greet, grow, guard, happen, harvest, have.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Hear to Increase
Hear, help, hide, hit, hope, hunt, imagine, increase.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Indicate to Keep
Indicate, inform, insult, invent, iron, joke, judge, keep.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Keep House to Light
Kick, kiss, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, lie, light.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Like to Maintain
Like, limit, live, lock, look, lose, love, lower, maintain.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Make to Move
Make, marry, mean, meet, melt, memorize, mix, motivate, move.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Move Away to Pacify
Move away, need, notice, obey, occur, open, order, own.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Pack to Possess
Pack, participate, pass, pay, permit, photograph, plan, possess.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Postpone to Put Down
Postpone, pray, prefer, prepare, prevent, promise, punish, put.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Put Out to Rent
Put out, quiet, rain, read, recognize, refuse, remember, rent.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Repair to Satisfy
Repair, repeat, resign, respect, rest, return, run, satisfy.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Save to Shop
Save, say, see, sell, send, set, settle, sew, shop.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Shorten to Sneeze
Shorten, show, shut, sign, sing, sit, slap, sleep, smoke, sneeze.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Solder to Stir
Solder, solve, speak, spend, squeeze, stand, start, steal, stir.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Stop to Switch On
Stop, stretch, study, succeed, suffer, survive, swear, swim, switch on.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Sympathize to Tie
Sympathize, take, talk, taste, teach, tell, think, throw, tie.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Tighten to Become Used To
Tighten, touch, trade, translate, travel, trust, try, turn, use.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Be Useful to Become Wet
Be useful, visit, wait, wake, walk, want, wash, weigh, welcome, wet.
Read Lesson →Verb Glossary — Become Wet to Yawn
The final glossary batch: wish, witness, work, worry, write, yawn.
Read Lesson →Complete Grammar Review
Every grammar topic covered across the whole course, in one place.
Read Lesson →Complete Vocabulary Review
Every vocabulary area covered across the whole course, by topic.
Read Lesson →Final Darija Academy Course Review
The complete list of learning outcomes — and the end of the course.
Read Lesson →You’ve completed the full Darija Academy course — mabruk!