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🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic · Beginner Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 10 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Lunch Break at the Workshop

The workshop's carpenter, Leo's age, calls him to lunch: let's have lunch, engineer, are you hungry, I'm starving, let's eat beans on the corner, beans again, let's eat koshary, let's drink tea first, fine, let's go, let's sit outside, outside in May, let's sit inside, and let's speak only Arabic.

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THE STORY

The courtyard of the old house in al-Darb al-Ahmar at one o'clock, a May day, the tools down for lunch. The carpenter, Leo's age, gives him the plain you from his first words and calls him engineer; Leo answers in kind.

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نِتْغَدَّى.nit-GHAD-dawe have lunch: one word that starts with the n of we
يَلَّا نِتْغَدَّى يَا بَشْمُهَنْدِس.YAL-la nit-GHAD-da ya bash-mu-HAN-dis.Let's have lunch, engineer.
إِنْتَ جَعَان يَا لِيُو?IN-ta ga-3AAN ya LI-yu?Are you hungry, Leo?
يَلَّا, أَنَا جَعَان.YAL-la, A-na ga-3AAN.Let's, I'm starving.
عَلَى النَّاصْيَة.3a-la in-NAS-yaon the corner
يَلَّا نَاكُل فُول عَلَى النَّاصْيَة.YAL-la NAA-kul FOOL 3a-la in-NAS-ya.Let's eat beans on the corner.
فُول تَانِي? يَلَّا نَاكُل كُشَرِي.FOOL TAA-ni? YAL-la NAA-kul KU-sha-ri.Beans again? Let's eat koshary.
يَلَّا نِشْرَب شَاي الأَوِّل.YAL-la NISH-rab SHAAY il-'AW-wil.Let's drink tea first.
مَاشِي كُشَرِي, يَلَّا نِمْشِي.MAA-shi KU-sha-ri, YAL-la NIM-shi.Fine, koshary, let's go.
يَلَّا نُقْعُد بَرَّه.YAL-la NU'-3ud BAR-ra.Let's sit outside.

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