Arabic Basics for Tourists — Speak in 7 Days

This guide teaches practical spoken Arabic for a short trip, one day at a time. Day 1 covers the handful of Arabic sounds worth practising and enough script to recognise common signs. Day 2 covers greetings and courtesy, Day 3 numbers and money, Day 4 directions and transport, Day 5 food and shopping, and Day 6 hotel, health and emergency phrases. Day 7 combines the week into short sample dialogues for checking into a hotel, buying something in a market, asking directions and ordering a meal. A further chapter explains how everyday words shift between Gulf, Levantine, Egyptian and Maghrebi Arabic, and a final reference chapter gathers more than 150 words and phrases by topic for quick lookup. It is written for tourists with no prior Arabic, not for language students seeking grammar. Delivered as a PDF with clickable contents, formatted for reading on a phone, tablet or printed. Facts are current as of September 2026. Personal-use licence: for the buyer’s own use, not for resale or redistribution.