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🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic · Advanced Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 4 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Let Us Count

At the kitchen table in Maadi, Leo persuades Salma with numbers: let's count, the workshop pays twenty, a shop eats it in rent, but even so, give me six months, then we count again, and if it works she chooses the colour of the sign.

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THE STORY

The kitchen of the Maadi flat, a Saturday morning in autumn. Leo lays out the numbers for the studio and Salma answers; husband and wife speak plainly.

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خَلِّينَا نِحْسِب.khal-LEE-na NI7-sib.Let's count.
الوَرْشَة بِتِدِّينِي عِشْرِين.il-WAR-sha bi-tid-DEE-ni 3ish-REEN.The workshop pays me twenty.
وِالمَحَلّ هَيَاكُل كُلُّه إِيجَار.wil-ma-7ALL ha-YAA-kul KUL-lu e-GAAR.And the shop will eat it all in rent.
بَرْضُه الإِيجَار غَالِي.BAR-du il-'e-GAAR GHAA-li.Even so, the rent is expensive.
بَسّ بَرْضُه هَاكُون لِوَحْدِي.bass BAR-du ha-KOON li-WA7-di.But even so, I'd be the only one.
مَا تِعْرَفْش الوَرَق المَصْرِي.ma ti3-RAFSH il-WA-ra' il-MAS-ri.You don't know Egyptian paperwork.
اِدِّينِي سِتّ شُهُور.id-DEE-ni sitt shu-HOOR.Give me six months.
سِتّ شُهُور, وِبَعْدِين نِحْسِب تَانِي.sitt shu-HOOR wi-ba3-DEEN NI7-sib TAA-ni.Six months, and then we count again.
وِلَوْ المَكْتَب نَجَح?wi-LAW il-MAK-tab NA-ga7?And if the studio succeeds?
يِبْقَى تِخْتَار لَوْن اليَافْطَة.YIB-'a tikh-TAAR loon il-YAF-ta.Then you choose the colour of the sign.