#EveryDayArabic January 17th 2024

The Use of "Qur’ānic Arabic" in Everyday Life

I often hear from new, and even intermediate, students of Arabic, that there’s an infinite gap between the Arabic of the Qur’ān and that which is used by native speakers in their everyday lives. And while there certainly a grain of truth to this, especially in spoken Arabic, millions of native speakers however do read the newspaper, and other sources, w…