هالبرنامج عهالقناة بحكي عن البحر والفنادق بالعطلة.

هالـ is a very common Levantine way to say this before a noun.

So:

• هالبرنامج = this program
• هالقناة = this channel

It is basically the colloquial equivalent of more formal هذا البرنامج / هذه القناة. In everyday Levantine, putting هالـ directly before the noun is extremely natural.

عهالقناة is a contracted colloquial spelling.

It comes from:

• على = on
• plus هالقناة = this channel

In speech, على is often shortened to عَ, so على هالقناة becomes something like عَ هالقناة, often written عهالقناة in informal Arabic writing.

So عهالقناة simply means on this channel.

Here بحكي means talks or is talking.

In Levantine, the prefix بـ often marks the present/habitual form. So this kind of verb can mean:

• a general present: talks
• or a current present: is talking

In this sentence, the natural English meaning is talks about.

That is a very good question. In informal Levantine spelling, short vowels are often not written clearly, so بحكي can be ambiguous on the page.

With the explicit subject هالبرنامج, the meaning is understood as this program talks.

Many people might also write بيحكي to make the 3rd-person reading clearer, but informal spellings vary a lot. Context usually tells you which meaning is intended.

Because the verb agrees with the subject, not with the things being talked about.

The subject here is:

• هالبرنامج = this program

That is singular, so the verb is singular too.

The phrase:

• عن البحر والفنادق = about the sea/beach and the hotels

is not the subject. It is just the topic of the program.

Because حكى عن means to talk about.

This is just the normal preposition used with this meaning:

• حكى عن = talked about
• بحكي عن = talks about

If you change the preposition, the meaning changes. For example:

• حكى مع = talked with

So in this sentence, عن is exactly what you want for about.

It can mean either, depending on context.

In Levantine, البحر often refers not only to the sea itself, but also to the beach or seaside in everyday speech. In a sentence about vacation and hotels, many speakers would naturally understand it as something like:

• the beach
• the seaside
• or more literally the sea

So the exact English choice depends on context.

Arabic often uses the definite article الـ in places where English would use a more general noun.

So البحر والفنادق can still mean general holiday topics like:

• the beach/sea and hotels

not necessarily one specific sea and one specific set of hotels already known to the listener.

This kind of generic definite usage is very normal in Arabic.

بالعطلة literally means in the vacation/holiday.

Depending on context, it can be translated as:

• on vacation
• during the holiday
• during the holidays
• in vacation time

The بـ here often has the sense of in or during.

So in this sentence, it means the program talks about the sea/beach and hotels in the context of vacations/holidays.

Yes, it is very natural.

In Levantine Arabic, subject-first order is extremely common in everyday speech, so:

• هالبرنامج ... بحكي ...

is perfectly normal.

Arabic can also use verb-first order, but colloquial Levantine often prefers subject-first structures, especially in ordinary conversation.

A more formal version could be:

• هذا البرنامج على هذه القناة يتحدث عن البحر والفنادق في العطلة

Compared with the Levantine sentence:

• هالبرنامج عهالقناة بحكي عن البحر والفنادق بالعطلة

the colloquial features are:

• هالبرنامج instead of هذا البرنامج
• عهالقناة instead of على هذه القناة
• بحكي instead of يتحدث
• بالعطلة instead of في العطلة

So the original sentence is clearly everyday Levantine, not formal MSA.