في استاذ جديد بالجامعة، وكل حدا حضر محاضرته قال انها منيحة.

In Levantine Arabic, في at the start of a sentence often means there is / there are.

So:

• في استاذ جديد بالجامعة = There is a new professor at the university

This is a very common colloquial structure. It does not mean in here, even though في can also mean in in other contexts.

Arabic often does not use a present-tense verb equivalent to is/are in simple statements.

So:

• استاذ جديد literally = a professor new
• natural English = a new professor

This is normal in both spoken Arabic and Standard Arabic.

بالجامعة is made of:

• بـ = in / at
• الجامعة = the university

So بالجامعة means at the university or in the university, depending on context. In English, at the university is usually the most natural translation here.

حدا is a very common Levantine word meaning someone / anyone / a person.

In this sentence:

• كل حدا = every person / everyone

This is colloquial Levantine. In Standard Arabic, you would more likely see something like كل شخص.

Because كل حدا is treated grammatically as singular, even though its meaning is collective.

So:

• كل حدا حضر محاضرته قال...
• literally: every person who attended his lecture said...

Even though English uses everyone ... said, which also takes singular grammar, learners sometimes expect a plural verb because the meaning involves many people. Arabic keeps it singular here: قال.

In English, you say everyone who attended his lecture.

In Arabic, the relative word who is often omitted in structures like this, especially after words like كل حدا.

So:

• كل حدا حضر محاضرته
• literally: every person attended his lecture
• natural English: everyone who attended his lecture

You may also hear forms with يلي in Levantine, but omitting it here is very natural.

حضر here means attended.

So:

• حضر محاضرته = attended his lecture

Be careful: in other contexts, حضر can also relate to being present or even preparing in some varieties or situations, but here the meaning is clearly attended.

محاضرته means his lecture.

It is made of:

• محاضرة = lecture
• -ه = his

Because محاضرة ends in ـة, when a suffix is added, it becomes محاضرتـ and then takes the pronoun:

• محاضرة → محاضرته

This is a very common pattern in Arabic.

Because the thing being described as منيحة is the lecture, not the professor.

• محاضرة is a feminine noun
• so the pronoun referring back to it is feminine: إنها = that it / that she/it in form, but here it

So:

• قال انها منيحة
• he said that it was good
• where it = the lecture

If the speaker wanted to say the professor was good, the wording would be different, and you would expect a masculine reference.

Because منيحة is feminine, and it agrees with the feminine noun being described: محاضرة.

• masculine: منيح = good
• feminine: منيحة = good

Since the hidden noun is محاضرة (lecture), the feminine form is required.

منيحة is a Levantine colloquial word meaning good.

It is very common in speech.
Related forms:

• منيح = masculine singular
• منيحة = feminine singular
• مناح / منيحين may appear in plural contexts depending on dialect and style

In Standard Arabic, you would more likely see جيدة instead of منيحة.

Yes. استاذ is just a spelling without the hamza, which is very common in informal writing.

More formal spelling:

• أستاذ

In Levantine pronunciation, it is usually something like ustaaz / ostaz depending on the speaker.

So yes, it means professor / teacher / الأستاذ in the general sense.

It is somewhat mixed, which is very common in real life.

Clearly Levantine elements include:

• في = there is
• حدا
• منيحة

But some parts look a bit closer to more formal Arabic spelling or style, such as:

• أنها
• محاضرته

A very natural Levantine version might look like:

• في أستاذ جديد بالجامعة، وكل حدا حضر محاضرتو قال إنّها منيحة.

Or even more conversationally:

• في أستاذ جديد بالجامعة، وكل حدا حضر محاضرتو قال إنو المحاضرة منيحة.

So the original sentence is perfectly understandable, but it sits somewhere between colloquial and semi-formal writing.

Arabic often uses a structure that is more like:

• There is professor new at-the-university
• and every person attended his-lecture said that-it good

This is normal Arabic word order. English learners often want a one-to-one match with English order, but Arabic organizes information differently.

A useful tip: try to read it in chunks:

• في استاذ جديد بالجامعة
• وكل حدا حضر محاضرته
• قال انها منيحة

That makes the sentence much easier to process.

Yes, depending on context, الجامعة can refer to the university in a general sense, and in some translations English might use college if that sounds more natural for the audience.

But the literal meaning is the university, so بالجامعة is most directly at the university.

A more Standard Arabic version could be:

• يوجد أستاذ جديد في الجامعة، وكل من حضر محاضرته قال إنها جيدة.

Main differences:

• يوجد instead of colloquial في
• كل من instead of كل حدا
• في الجامعة instead of بالجامعة
• جيدة instead of منيحة

This helps show which parts of the original are specifically Levantine.