Algeria Connect · First Words: Algerian Arabic · Lesson 5 of 10

Family

The words of the kitchen table, the phone call home, the photographs.

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The words

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hadha khouya.

This is my brother.

hadhi khalti.

This is my aunt — mother's side.

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