نتحدث لاحقا
“نتحدث لاحقا” (натахаддас ляхикан) — talk later in Arabic. Phrase, level B1. "We will talk later" instead of "be in touch": Arabic says goodbye with a promise of talk. Tahaaddatha, "to converse", comes from hadith, "talk", a line above. In a live sentence: “نتحدث لاحقا، الآن عليّ أن أذهب” — Talk later; now I have to go. Written with the characters ن, ت, ح, د, ث, ل, ا, ح, ق, ا. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | نتحدث لاحقا |
| Read in Latin letters | натахаддас ляхикан |
| Translation | talk later |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
"We will talk later" instead of "be in touch": Arabic says goodbye with a promise of talk. Tahaaddatha, "to converse", comes from hadith, "talk", a line above
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- نتحدث لاحقا، الآن عليّ أن أذهبнатахаддас ляхикан, аль-аан ʿалеййя ан азхабTalk later; now I have to go
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “talk later” in Arabic?
«نتحدث لاحقا», read “натахаддас ляхикан”. In a live sentence: “نتحدث لاحقا، الآن عليّ أن أذهب” — Talk later; now I have to go. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters ن, ت, ح, د, ث, ل, ا, ح, ق, ا.
How is “نتحدث لاحقا” written in Latin letters?
натахаддас ляхикан. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
"We will talk later" instead of "be in touch": Arabic says goodbye with a promise of talk. Tahaaddatha, "to converse", comes from hadith, "talk", a line above. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.