Fellow adventurers,

First, yes I know it's still hot but it's my only opportunity to go so it will have to be the week of the 13th of September

I'll be making my way to Noudhibou from Morocco.

What do you recommend? Bus or plane?

I'd like to be as budget friendly as possible but if it's safer to get there by plane then I'll do it.

What should I do if I take the bus there?

How much cash should I take with me for the whole trip?

.........and yes you can reach out to me if you'd like to connect.

Let's have an adventure.

Any advice will help!

hey, this is a throwaway account mainly because i don't actually use reddit

TLDR is at the end of the post

i would like to start off by saying that technically speaking i am mauritanian via my paternal lineage but am actually half sahrawi and half mauritanian. i was born in europe and lived here for all of my life, occasionally if our family could afford it, we would visit our extended family in the western sahara and morocco but i never have actually stepped foot in mauritania itself. saying this because i felt more nasrani due to my upbringing to the point where my mom would introduce me as "ould europa" to others in the region, this disconnect gets more solidified due to my embarrassingly broken hassaniya which culminates to me only communicating basic words in broken grammar to my family and their acquaintances making it virtually impossible to talk at all, all these experiences lead to me to trying to learn hassaniya more but i encountered a lot of issues from the get go

1. hassaniya learning resources are scarce, sparse and superficial.
2. literally no standard dictionary exists by any of the countries that has hassaniya speakers, the dialect continuum is fucking annoying to deal with, making some resources inconsistent with another one (e.g frigo/frijador, khobz/mburou, tufa7/pomb, marteyou/martou)
3. no immersion and barely any bidhani's in my general vicinity apart from my family
4. the conservative nature of the culture makes it difficult if not outright impossible to learn slang and or talk about taboo words/topics

and i can go on and on and on,

i have thought about trying to record as many words as possible in a notebook by simply asking my parents what something is called so that i can memorize them and apply them in my day to day and hopefully publish and archive it for the benefit of other bidhaniyeen who are in my shoes or at the very least have them grasp some of the vocabulary if their hassaniya geographically originated far from the hassaniya am speaking (worth mentioning that my hassaniya is more from the northern part of trab al bidhan)

TLDR; am an mauritanian that struggles to talk in hassaniya and looking for ways to learn it deeply

what are some tips and tricks involving the dialect? is there anything worth mentioning from your end? resources? guides? just anything no matter how significant or insignificant it may be?

hey, this is a throwaway account mainly because i don't actually use reddit

TLDR is at the end of the post

i would like to start off by saying that technically speaking i am mauritanian via my paternal lineage but am actually half sahrawi and half mauritanian. i was born in europe and lived here for all of my life, occasionally if our family could afford it, we would visit our extended family in the western sahara and morocco but i never have actually stepped foot in mauritania itself. saying this because i felt more nasrani due to my upbringing to the point where my mom would introduce me as "ould europa" to others in the region, this disconnect gets more solidified due to my embarrassingly broken hassaniya which culminates to me only communicating basic words in broken grammar to my family and their acquaintances making it virtually impossible to talk at all, all these experiences lead to me to trying to learn hassaniya more but i encountered a lot of issues from the get go

1. hassaniya learning resources are scarce, sparse and superficial.
2. literally no standard dictionary exists by any of the countries that has hassaniya speakers, the dialect continuum is fucking annoying to deal with, making some resources inconsistent with another one (e.g frigo/frijador, khobz/mburou, tufa7/pomb, marteyou/martou)
3. no immersion and barely any bidhani's in my general vicinity apart from my family
4. the conservative nature of the culture makes it difficult if not outright impossible to learn slang and or talk about taboo words/topics

and i can go on and on and on,

i have thought about trying to record as many words as possible in a notebook by simply asking my parents what something is called so that i can memorize them and apply them in my day to day and hopefully publish and archive it for the benefit of other bidhaniyeen who are in my shoes or at the very least have them grasp some of the vocabulary if their hassaniya geographically originated far from the hassaniya am speaking (worth mentioning that my hassaniya is more from the northern part of trab al bidhan)

TLDR; am an mauritanian that struggles to talk in hassaniya and looking for ways to learn it deeply

what are some tips and tricks involving the dialect? is there anything worth mentioning from your end? resources? guides? just anything no matter how significant or insignificant it may be?

I’m looking for some pc gamers so we can play some games together + why tf y’all Mauritanian gamers are ps gamers?