Help and emergenciesin Saudi Arabic.

The first sentences worth learning in any language are the ones for the day something goes wrong: a lost wallet, a car that will not start, a pharmacy at midnight. In Saudi Arabia those sentences are short and they work on anyone - a shop assistant, a policeman, a stranger at the next pump - because asking for help is something Saudis respond to immediately and without fuss.

The entries here are the direct forms and the softer ones, the word that adds urgency, and the sentence that usually follows: I have a problem. Each one tells you what a Saudi will say back, which is almost always some form of consider it done.

Every phrase and example is recorded by a Saudi teacher, so that when you need one of these you have heard it before.