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Welcome! Today, we will learn the most important imperative verbs in Egyptian Arabic. It is imperative that you know all of them! 😃 The first one is…
Esraa shares with us some things she thinks are unique to Egypt and teaches us some useful vocabulary in the process.
معلِشّ is used to downplay a situation, whether to console, sympathize, or apologize. The word originally comes from the Modern Standard Arabic phrase ما عليه شيء, which literally means nothing against it.
كِده is likely the most quintessentially Egyptian word there is. Not only is it very high frequency in everyday speech, but it is unique to the Egyptian Arabic dialect. كِده is related to the Modern Standard Arabic word هكذا like this but takes on a range of idiomatic meanings on its own and in phrases.
Ahmad tells us about the barriers of diglossia in the Arabic-speaking world and how Egyptian Arabic is gaining ground as a written language.
Let’s take a look at Unit 1 from the book The News in Egyptian Arabic.
Learn Egyptian Arabic with Amr Diab’s Zay Manty (video, English translation, and language notes).
Practice reading Egyptian Arabic.
Salman, age 7, has a story for us. What was Captain America’s fate?
Mostafa traveled around the world without leaving Cairo. But how?
I’ve just added a section to each PDF eBook’s product page–You’ll find it just before the Audio section. On the left, you’ll see a circular button with a PDF icon. Click this to view (and/or download) a PDF of a sample from the book. This way, you can get a better look inside the book,
YouTuber Arabic teacher Ahmad ElKhodary presents 25 interesting news stories from around the world for reading and listening practice and discussion in Modern Standard Arabic.
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