صوت التلفزيون واطي، ومشان هيك ما فهمت الاخبار.

It is Levantine Arabic, not Modern Standard Arabic.

Some clear clues are:

• واطي = low / quiet, a very colloquial word
• مشان هيك = because of that / so / that’s why, very common in Levantine
• ما فهمت for I didn’t understand, using dialect-style negation
• informal spelling like الاخبار instead of the fully standard الأخبار

A more MSA-style version would be something like:

• صوت التلفزيون منخفض، ولذلك لم أفهم الأخبار.

A common Levantine-style pronunciation would be:

sōt et-tilfizyōn wāṭi, w-mishān hēk ma fhemet il-akhbār

A few notes:

• صوت sounds like sōt or sometimes closer to sawt
• التلفزيون is roughly et-tilfizyōn
• واطي is wāṭi
• مشان is mishān
• هيك is hēk
• فهمت here is often pronounced fhemet in Levantine

Pronunciation varies a bit by country and city, so you may hear small differences.

Because Arabic usually does not use a present-tense verb to be in sentences like this.

So:

• صوت التلفزيون واطي literally looks like the sound of the television low
• but it means The TV sound is low or The TV is quiet

This is completely normal in Arabic.

If you wanted past tense, you would add كان:

• صوت التلفزيون كان واطي = The TV sound was low

Literally, it means the sound of the television.

Here:

• صوت = sound / voice
• التلفزيون = the television / TV

In everyday speech, صوت التلفزيون often means the TV volume or how loud the TV sounds.

So even though the literal meaning is the sound of the TV, the practical meaning is often the TV volume.

واطي means low. In this sentence, it means low in volume or quiet.

It is واطي and not واطية because it agrees with صوت, and صوت is grammatically masculine.

So:

• صوت = masculine
• therefore the adjective is واطي

If the noun were feminine, you would often use واطية.

Also, واطي is colloquial. In more formal Arabic, you might hear:

• منخفض = low
• خافت = faint / quiet

But واطي is very natural in spoken Levantine.

مشان هيك means because of that, for that reason, or more naturally in English, so or that’s why.

Breakdown:

• مشان = for / because of / for the sake of
• هيك = like that / that way / this way

Together, the phrase means something like because it was like that → that’s why.

It is a very common spoken connector in Levantine.

Similar expressions include:

• عشان هيك
• كرمال هيك
• لهيك

All can mean that’s why / so / because of that, though usage varies by region.

The و simply means and.

So:

• ومشان هيك = and because of that
• in natural English, this often becomes just so or that’s why

Arabic often uses و very freely to connect ideas, even where English might just start a new clause without and.

So this part links the two ideas:

• the TV sound was low
• and because of that, I didn’t understand the news

In Levantine, ما is commonly used to negate past verbs.

So:

• فهمت = I understood or sometimes you understood depending on context
• ما فهمت = I didn’t understand or you didn’t understand

This form is potentially ambiguous by itself, because in spoken Arabic the same verb form can sometimes match:

• I understood
• you understood masculine singular

Context tells you which one is meant.

Here, the intended meaning is I didn’t understand.

If you wanted to make you feminine singular, it would usually be:

• ما فهمتي

Because in casual Arabic writing, especially online or in messages, people often leave out hamzas.

So:

• formal spelling: الأخبار
• casual spelling: الاخبار

Both refer to the same word: the news.

This is very common in dialect writing. Native speakers usually have no trouble understanding it.

Because here it refers to the news as a specific thing, like a news broadcast or the news report.

So:

• الأخبار = the news
• أخبار = news / updates / pieces of news

In context, ما فهمت الأخبار means I didn’t understand the news.

Without the article, أخبار would sound more general, like news in the abstract or updates.

Yes. A few natural alternatives are:

• صوت التلفزيون واطي، فَما فهمت الأخبار
• صوت التلفزيون كان واطي، ومشان هيك ما فهمت الأخبار
• التلفزيون صوته واطي، ومشان هيك ما فهمت الأخبار

These are all understandable and natural, with small differences:

• فَ gives a direct so
• كان makes it clearly past: was low
• التلفزيون صوته واطي is another common way to say the TV’s sound is low

The original sentence is already very natural in spoken Levantine.