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🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic · Beginner Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 5 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Fabric Shop

Uncle Mahmoud shows Leo the family's fabric shop on al-Azhar street: welcome to the shop, it's big, my father's shop, sixty years, Egyptian cotton, white and blue, this red one, silk, very expensive, a curtain for my room, this blue one, a present from me.

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THE STORY

Uncle Mahmoud's fabric shop on al-Azhar street, a quiet morning. Uncle Mahmoud calls Leo by his name with the plain you; Leo says the polite words to him, as to any elder.

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أَهْلاً بِيك فِي المَحَلّ!AH-lan BEEK fil-ma-7ALL!Welcome to the shop!
كِبِير, يَا عَمّ مَحْمُود!ki-BEER, ya 3amm ma7-MOOD!It's big, Uncle Mahmoud!
مَحَلّ أَبُويَا, سِتِّين سَنَة.ma-7ALL a-BOO-ya, sit-TEEN SA-na.My father's shop, sixty years.
وِدَه إِيه?wi-DA eeh?And what's this?
أَبْيَض وِأَزْرَق.AB-yad wi-'AZ-ra'white and blue
قُطْن مَصْرِي, أَبْيَض وِأَزْرَق.'UTN MAS-ri, AB-yad wi-'AZ-ra'.Egyptian cotton, white and blue.
عَايِز سِتَارَة بِيضَا?3AA-yiz si-TAA-ra BEE-da?You want a white curtain?
وِالأَحْمَر دَه?wil-'A7-mar DA?And this red one?
حَرِير. غَالِي أَوِي.7a-REER. GHAA-li AW-i.Silk. Very expensive.
الأَحْمَر غَالِي?il-'A7-mar GHAA-li?Is the red one expensive?

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