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🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic · Beginner Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 27 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Evening Table

Grilled fish on the hotel terrace in Hurghada, and Karim's question: why did you come to Egypt, to draw one house for a month, you stayed to work at the workshop, to learn Arabic, to eat Grandma's food, why did you stay a year, to see the sea in August with you two, only the sea?

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THE STORY

The hotel terrace in Hurghada over grilled fish, an August evening; Karim, Salma and Leo, friends of the same age, speak plainly to each other.

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لِيُو, جِيت مَصْر لِيه?LI-yu, geet MASR leeh?Leo, why did you come to Egypt?
عَشَان أَرْسِم.3a-SHAAN AR-simin order to draw: the little word, then I draw, bare
عَشَان أَرْسِم بَيْت وَاحِد. لِشَهْر.3a-SHAAN AR-sim beet WAA-7id. li-SHAHR.To draw one house. For a month.
جِيت مَصْر عَشَان أَشْتَغَل.geet MASR 3a-SHAAN ash-TA-ghal.I came to Egypt to work.
عَشَان تِشْتَغَل فِي الوَرْشَة.3a-SHAAN tish-TA-ghal fil-WAR-shain order to work at the workshop, to a man
وِقَعَدْت عَشَان تِشْتَغَل فِي الوَرْشَة.wi-'a-3ADT 3a-SHAAN tish-TA-ghal fil-WAR-sha.And you stayed to work at the workshop.
وِعَشَان أَتْعَلِّم عَرَبِي.wi-3a-SHAAN at-3AL-lim 3A-ra-bi.And to learn Arabic.
وِعَشَان تَاكُل أَكْل تِيتَا.wi-3a-SHAAN TAA-kul akl TEE-ta.And to eat Grandma's food.
دَه كَمَان.da ka-MAAN.That too.
وِقَعَدْت سَنَة لِيه?wi-'a-3ADT SA-na leeh?And why did you stay a year?

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