Nothing pleases Jordanians more than meeting a foreigner who can speak their language, or even a few words, so it's very well worth the try.

How to pronounce
 

i /as in/ see	ya /as au in/ Soraya	ai / as in /eye
ay/as in /may	aw /as in /away	kh/as in the Scottish/loch
gh /as in the Parisian /r	dh /as in/the
Double consonants: try to pronounce them twice as long. An apostrophe ' indicates a glottal stop.

Greetings
 

Hello/As-Marhaba, ahlan (reply)/Marhabtayn, ahlayn

Peace be with you/As-salam alaykum (reply)/ Walaykum as-salam (and to you peace)

Welcome/Ahlan wasahlan (reply)/ahlan fikum

Good morning/Sabah al-khayr (reply)/Sabah an-nur /Sabah al-wurd (a morning with the smell of flowers)

Good man/Mabsut or woman/mneeha

Please/min fadlak (to a man)/min fadlik (to a woman)

After you/Tafaddal (to a man)/ Tafaddali (to a woman)/Afaddalu (to more than one)

Sorry/Afwan or mutaasif or asif (for a man)/Afwan or mutaasifa or asifa (for a woman)

Thank you (very much)/Shukran ( jazilan)

Thank you, I am grateful/Mamnunak (to a man)/Mamnunik (to a woman)

Thanks be to God/AI-hamdu li-Iia

God willing (hopefully)/Insha alla

Yes/Naam or aiwa

No/La

congratulations!/Mabrok! (reply)/Allah yubarak fik

What is your name?/Shu ismaK? (to a man)/Shu ismik? (to a woman)(replay)My name is.../Ismi.

Where are you from?/Min wayn inta? (for a man)/Min wayn inti (for a woman)  (replay)I am from: England/Ana min Ingiltra Germany/Ana min Almania  United States/Ana min Amerika  Australia/Ana min Ustralia

Do you speak English?/Btihki inglizi (reply) I speak: English/Bihki inglizi (or) German/Almami  (or) French/Fransawi

I do not speak Arabic/Ma bihki arabi

I do not understand/Mish fahim

What does this mean?/Ya'ani esh?

Repeat, once more/Kaman marra

Do you have...?/Andkum...?

Is there any...?/Fi...?

There isn't any.../Ma fi... or fish

Never mind/Ma'alesh

It is forbidden.../Mamnu'a

Vocabulary  General
 

embassy/sifara

post office/maktab al-barid

stamps/tawabi'a

bank/bank

hotel/otel/funduq

museum/mathaf

ticket/tadhkara

ruins/athar

passport/jawaz as-safar

good/kuways

not good, bad/mish kuways

open/maftuh

closed/musakkar,mughlik

today/alyaum

tonight/hadhi-I-layla

tomorrow/bukra

Dining Out
 

restaurant/mata'am

food/akl

fish/samak

meat/lahma

milk/halib

bread/khubz

salad/salata

delicious/zaki

coffee/kahwa

tea/shai

cup/finjan

with sugar/bi sukkar

without sugar/bidun sukkar

wine/nibid

beer/bira

mineral water/mai ma'adaniya

glass/kubbaiya

I am a vegetarian/Ana nabbati (for a man)/nabbatiya (for a woman)

the bill/al-hisab