The Essential Saudi Dialect Book
Not a grammar course. Practical Saudi dialect - words, sentences and expressions - with 15+ hours of audio, an interactive web book, a downloadable PDF and 289+ quizzes.
محتاج مساعدة
miḥtāj musāʿada
I need help.
The sentence worth knowing before any other. Works in a shop, a hospital, or on the side of a road.
Choose a format
Both include the web book, the PDF, the full audio library and all the quizzes.
Web book, PDF, audio and quizzes
Instant access after payment
Buy this one if you are outside Saudi Arabia.
The printed book plus everything digital
FREE delivery anywhere in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia only for now. Shipping elsewhere is on the roadmap.
How it is built
Not a phrase list in alphabetical order. The sequence the country actually puts you through, starting the day you land.
Level 1
Your first 48 hours in Saudi Arabia
You land in Riyadh and you can handle the first two days on your own.
Level 2
A few months in, when the novelty has worn off
You stop reaching for Google Translate every five minutes.
Level 3
When you want to be talked to, not accommodated
Saudis stop switching to English when they talk to you.
Every phrase in all three levels carries audio, and every section of the printed book carries a QR code that plays it.
Inside the book
English, Arabic and easy pronunciation side by side, grouped by the situation you are in, with a QR code on every section that plays the audio.
Or tap any page above.
Photographs of the printed edition. The digital edition is the same content, with the audio a tap away instead of a scan.
Before you buy anything
Chapter 1 is your first day in Saudi Arabia - the airport, the taxi, the first greetings. It is open in full, with the audio, right now.
Opens the web book. Buying unlocks the rest of it, plus the PDF and the full audio library.
Readers
Photographs sent in by people learning Saudi Arabic with it.
Why this and not that
An honest column-by-column look, including the parts where the other options win.
| Feature | UsSpeak Saudi | MSAA standard MSA course | AppA language app |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dialect you will actually hear in Riyadh | Yes | No | No |
| Audio recorded by Saudis | Yes | sometimes | No |
| Live practice with a teacher | Yes | Yes | No |
| Sentences from real situations | Yes | some | some |
| Reads and writes formal Arabic | basics | Yes | basics |
| Recognised certificate | No | Yes | No |
| Works offline on your commute | Yes | No | Yes |
If you need to read contracts or sit an exam, a formal Arabic course is the right buy. If you need to talk to people here, this is.
About the book
The digital edition: the interactive web book, a downloadable PDF, 15+ hours of audio and all 289+ quizzes. Instant access after payment, and yours to keep.
The Hard Copy Package: the printed book plus everything in the digital edition, with free delivery anywhere in Saudi Arabia. You can pay cash on delivery.
No. Every entry carries easy pronunciation you can read out loud on day one, and the script sits beside it so it becomes familiar without being a wall.
More than fifteen hours, recorded by Saudi teachers. The digital edition ships with the whole library; the Hard Copy Package includes the same access.
The whole book in the browser, on any phone, with the audio inline and the quizzes built in. You do not have to download anything to use it - the PDF is there if you want it.
Not yet. Free delivery covers the Kingdom; shipping elsewhere is on the roadmap. Until then the digital edition is the one to buy, and it is the same book.
Fourteen days, full refund on the digital edition, no questions. Hard copies are covered by the terms on the delivery page.
From readers
Start now
Start with the free phrases, take a free hour with a teacher, or go straight to the book and have 2,500+ words and sentences on your phone in a minute.
Instant access after payment. Fourteen-day refund on the digital edition.
