ABOUT MOROCCO
Morocco is a country located in the northern Africa, it has three borders
, between Morocco and Spain in the north, between morocco and Mauritania in the south and between morocco and Algeria in east. It has the population of about 34 millions and an area of 710 850 km². Morocco is a constitutional monarchy, with an elected parliament. The most Moroccan Arabic and their mother tongue for natives Berbers .Moroccan 'capital is Rabat and Economic city of Morocco is Casablanca with a population of like 5 million people .The meaning of the word Morocco(Almagrib)means the place where the sun sets. The most Moroccans speak French and Spanish languages because of the period of colonization,People got in touch with the French and the Spanish; from 1912 till 1956 Morocco had independence.a country of different cultures and custumes because of its different languages and people.
BEFORE GETTING MOROCCO
Passports always carry photocopies of key pages of your passport with you! All Visitors need a passport to gain entry into Morocco. Report the loss of your passport immediately to police giving the number, date and place of use. The last hotel at which you stayed will have this information on the registration from. Getting fresh documents will probably entail a trip to Rabat and/or Casablanca. Tip: send your passport por details to a personal email address for easy retrieval.
VISAS :
From the point of entry travellers can stay in Morocco for (3) months!. No Visas are required for full passport holders of the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Canada Ireland and most EU countries. Benelux passport holders require visas at the present time. one the airplane or boat, or at the border, travelers will be required to fill in a form with standard personal and passport details, an exercise to be repeated in almost all hotels and guesthouses, Kasbah, riad throughout the country.
Visa extensions this requires a visit to the Immigration or Bureau des Etrangers departement at the police station in a larger town, as well as considerable patience. An easier option is to leave Moroccan people coming into Morocco from either of these Spanish enclaves for a second or third time have on occasion run into problems with the Moroccan customs. With numerous foreigners resident in Agadir and Marrakech, it may be easiest to arrange visa extensions in these cities. Approval of the extension has to come from Rabat and may take a few days.
LANGUAGES OF MOROCCO
Arabic and Berber languages are the official languages of Morocco. Nearly 75% of the population speaks the Berber language and nearly all Moroccans with a secondary education have enough French to communicate. And very few people speak English, and Spanish is spoken in the north due to the presence thanks to the mass media.
Outside education, however, Moroccan Arabic and Berber in the cities and only Berber in the mountains and in the Sahara desert are the languages of everyday life. And attempts to use a few words and phrases, no matter how stumblingly, will be appreciated those with some Arabic learned elsewhere often find the Moroccan Arabic difficult. It is characterized by a clipped quality (the vowels just seem to disappear) and the words taken from classical Arabic are often very different from those used in the Middle East. In addition, there is the influence of the Authentic Berber languages and a mixture of French and Spanish terms, often heavily ‘Moroccanised ’. In many situations French is more or less understood .However you will come across plenty of people Who have had little opportunity to go to school and whose French may be Limited to a very small number of phrases.
