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🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic · Beginner Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 16 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Grandma's oven

The courtyard and the clay oven: where were you, I was on the roof, why, the sun was nice, come the oven is hot, what's this, pie, were you ever in a village, I was always in the city, were the ducks on the roof, they were, twenty ducks.

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THE STORY

The courtyard of Grandma's village house, late morning: the clay oven, the pie, twenty ducks on the flat roof. Grandma speaks plainly to Leo and calls him my son; he says the polite you to her.

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لِيُو! كُنْت فِين?LI-yu! kunt FEEN?Leo! Where were you?
كُنْت عَلَى السَّطْح.kunt 3a-las-SAT7.I was on the roof.
حَضْرِتِك كُنْتِ فِين?7ad-RIT-ik KUN-ti FEEN?Where were you?
عَلَى السَّطْح? لِيه?3a-las-SAT7? LEEH?On the roof? Why?
كَانِت.KAA-nitit was, said of a she-thing
الشَّمْس كَانِت حِلْوَة.ish-SHAMS KAA-nit 7IL-wa.The sun was nice.
تَعَالَى. الفُرْن سُخْن.ta-3AA-la. il-FURN SUKHN.Come. The oven is hot.
دَه إِيه يَا تِيتَة?da EEH ya TEE-ta?What's this, Grandma?
فَطِير. كُنْت فِي قَرْيَة?fa-TEER. kunt fi 'AR-ya?Pie. Were you ever in a village?
كُنْت دَايْماً فِي المَدِينَة.kunt DAY-man fil-ma-DEE-na.I was always in the city.

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