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🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic · Beginner Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 28 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Salted Fish

The morning of Sham el-Nessim: today you have to eat salted fish, everyone eats it, with green onions and lettuce, I have to drink a lot of water, you have to smell an onion, why, it's the custom from the pharaohs, then I have to do it, the car's waiting.

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THE STORY

The flat in Heliopolis on the morning of Sham el-Nessim, a basket packed for the Nile; Leo says the polite you to Madame Nadia and Grandma, and they speak plainly to him.

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لاَزِم تَاكُل.LAA-zim TAA-kulyou have to eat, to a man: the little word, then you eat without its b-
لِيُو, النَّهَارْدَه لاَزِم تَاكُل فِسِيخ.LI-yu, in-na-HAR-da LAA-zim TAA-kul fi-SEEKH.Leo, today you have to eat salted fish.
لاَزِم, يَا مَدَام نَادْيَة?LAA-zim, ya ma-DAAM NAD-ya?Have to, Madame Nadia?
كُلّ النَّاس بِتَاكُل فِسِيخ.kull in-NAAS bi-TAA-kul fi-SEEKH.Everyone eats salted fish.
مِش لاَزِم.mish LAA-zim.Not necessary.
مَعَ بَصَل أَخْضَر وِخَسّ.MA-3a BA-sal AKH-dar wi-KHASS.With green onions and lettuce.
لاَزِم أَشْرَب.LAA-zim ASH-rabI have to drink: the little word, then I drink, with the a of I
وِبَعْدِين لاَزِم أَشْرَب مَيَّة كِتِير?wi-ba3-DEEN LAA-zim ASH-rab MAY-ya ki-TEER?And after, I have to drink a lot of water?
كِتِير, وِلاَزِم تِشِمّ بَصَلَة.ki-TEER, wi-LAA-zim ti-SHIMM BA-sa-la.A lot, and you have to smell an onion.
أَشِمّ بَصَلَة? لِيه?a-SHIMM BA-sa-la? LEEH?Smell an onion? Why?

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