The goal of Egyptian Arabic Diaries is to provide intermediate and advanced learners with authentic materials to practice both reading and listening skills in authentic Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA). The twenty texts that appear in this book have been written and recorded* by native speakers from around Egypt. The texts have been dubbed diary entries, although they are actually short personal essays that the contributors have chosen to share with learners of their language.
Each diary entry appears in various forms to allow you to study the language from a variety of focal points:
The audio is now available in two versions:
- the original audio: as spoken by the participants (at times challenging, but excellent practice for building listening skills)
- slow audio: a studio recording by professional voice artists who speak very slowly and deliberately (good for hearing the sounds of each word and shadowing the speech to improve your pronunciation and accent)
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tj –
I am greatly enjoying studying the Egyptian Arabic Diaries. I practice with it every day and night. The arabic font is very neat and easy to read, the translations are accurate, and its very helpful to have the meanings in english.
The only negative is on some of the accompanying audio tracks from the website, the speaker talks too fast. The product still is very beneficial and enjoyable to arabic learners.
Fatimah (verified owner) –
This is by far my favourite Lingualism product so far, as it allows me to practice multiple skills within the same documents. The short stories are perfectly for an early-intermediate level learner such as myself and improve my general vocabulary and grammatical skills, while the handwritten samples produce the opportunity to more thoroughly immerse myself in native Arabic written culture. A fantastic product. Hope to see more like this!
Pascal –
This book is great to improve your listening and reading skills! will recommend to a friend who is also learning egyptian accent like me.
Ameena –
I’ve been working on this book with a friend. We read a diary entry weekly and pick out interesting words/ phrases/ expressions and for verbs we try to find them in the Big Fat Book of EA Verbs. It’s been a fun and interesting experience…reading the different entries, learning lots of new vocabulary and different aspects of the language and how it’s used and just enjoying the different stories that are told.
Thanks, Lingualism for another fantastic resource.
Christina –
One of my favorite resources ever!
Marija –
The reading is too fast.
Gil McKinnon (verified owner) –
Great!
Emily –
I’m about to finish studying with the help of the “Egyptian Arabic Diaries” and I have to say that this product is amazing! I really enjoyed the topics. It enabled me to grasp a good amount of useful vocabulary and to see how sentences should be structured. The audios were also very helpful. All in all this was a fun and enjoyable learning experience.
Thank you so much!