Modern Standard Arabic. Modern Standard Arabic is the classical Arabic, also known as Fusha (الفصحى). Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) the 5th most spoken language in the world, one of the United Nations’ six used language and a crucial asset for your career and ambition if you are planning to engage with the MENA region.

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is defined as the register of Arabic used in modern day media, especially Arabic TV channels and publications, both print and online. However, this term has not yet received adequate linguistic research and study efforts in order to establish standards to distinguish it from Classical Arabic (CA, or Classical Fus’ha Arabic).

Modern Standard Arabic, also known by its acronym MSA, is the direct result of modern Arabic and a standardized version of the language. It is the type of Arabic used in universities, Arabic language schools, audiovisual and written media, and other formal contexts.

The 2017 Arab Youth Survey found that 68% of Gulf Arabs aged 18 to 24 used English more than Arabic on a daily basis, a twelve-point increase from 2016. While the local Gulf or Khaleeji dialect remains unaffected, the number of those who are comfortable speaking and writing Modern Standard Arabic, or fus'ha, has been steadily decreasing.

Instead, people speak a multitude of regional dialects. Arabic is spoken from Mauritania in the west to Oman in the east. "In Morocco, people can understand and even speak Modern Standard Arabic, but it can still be very difficult to talk to someone from Dubai," says Tarik Bary, the director of the Egyptian-German Cultural Centre in Cairo.

Konzipiert für den Arabisch Unterricht an Hochschulen, zählt das Lehrbuch „Modernes Hocharabisch – Mit einer Einführung in Hauptdialekte“ von E. Schulz an deutschen Hochschulen und weit über die Grenzen Deutschlands hinaus als …

26/03/2017 · It is also understood across most of the Arabic-speaking countries due to the predominance of Egyptian influence on the region as well as Egyptian media including Egyptian cinema which has had a big influence in the MENA region for more than a century along with the Egyptian music industry, making it the most widely spoken and by far the most widely studied …