Learn Arabic: Criticizing a Bad Movie

This episode exposes you to phrases, repeated in English and Arabic, to improve your Arabic vocabulary and help you to express yourself in Arabic.

These episodes are meant to accompany and accelerate your existing Arabic language studies, whether you're using an app like DuoLingo, or you're enrolled in a more formal Arabic class. The more you expose your brain to Arabic audio, the faster you'll learn.

View the full list of English and Arabic phrases in this episode.

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Phrases in this episode:

• When symbolism drowns the plot.
• Archetypes gone rogue.
• Dialogues from a philosophy undergrad’s diary.
• It’s a narrative Möbius strip; endlessly confusing.
• What dimension did this plot come from?
• Flashbacks? I can barely follow the present!
• A kaleidoscope of tropes and clichés.
• So many bullets, so little logic.
• Ah, explosions as character development!
• Why are they whispering? They just blew up a building!
• Where's this guy finding all these helicopters?
• They punched logic right in the face!
• So we're ignoring physics now?
• So we're friends with aliens now?
• So we're just ending it there?