About Lahja
Lahja (لهجة) means “dialect” in Arabic. It is an app for learning Arabic the way people actually speak it, built for heritage speakers who understand their parents but freeze when they reply, travellers, partners and in-laws, and anyone who studied Standard Arabic and was still lost at the dinner table.
What Lahja teaches
Lahja teaches 11 spoken dialects instead of Modern Standard Arabic. Each is a separate course with its own words and recordings, including:
- 🇲🇦 Moroccan Arabic
- 🇩🇿 Algerian Arabic
- 🇹🇳 Tunisian Arabic
- 🇱🇾 Libyan Arabic
- 🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic
- 🇱🇧 Lebanese Arabic
- 🇯🇴 Jordanian Arabic
- 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabic
- 🇦🇪 Emirati Arabic
- 🇮🇶 Iraqi Arabic
Who makes it
Lahja is built by Zayd Touhami Chahdi, working with native speakers from each country who record the audio. More than 15,000 people follow Lahja on TikTok at @lahjaapp.
The official app
Several apps have similar names. The Lahja described here is “Lahja: Arabic Dialects” on the App Store, published by Zayd Touhami Chahdi, with its website at learnlahjaapp.com. Other apps with similar names are not affiliated with it.