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🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 30 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Tale Is Over

Grandma's table at the Mansours' after the film: she is old in it but the house is young; Leo tells the year as one tale, there was oh what there was, an American telling Goha, vine leaves, a lion in a well, a cat who found a kitchen, a film, and they lived in peace and plenty, the mulberry rhyme, ninety in the summer, and that's that.

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THE STORY

The dining table at the Mansours' flat in Heliopolis on a spring evening, after the film on Karim's laptop. Grandma speaks plainly to everyone; Leo says the polite you to Grandma and Madame Nadia, and the plain you to Karim.

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أَنَا عَجُوزَة فِيه, بَسّ البِيت شَابّ.A-na 3a-GOO-za feeh bass il-BEET shaabb.I'm old in it, but the house is young.
كَان يَا مَا كَان, أَمْرِيكِي بِيِحْكِي جُحَا.kaan ya ma kaan am-REE-ki bi-YI7-ki GU-7a.There was, oh what there was, an American telling Goha.
وِاتْعَلِّم يِلِفّ وَرَق عِنَب.wit-3AL-lim yi-LIFF WA-ra' 3I-nab.And he learned to roll vine leaves.
وَأَسَد فِي بِير, وِقُطَّة لَقِت مَطْبَخ.wa-A-sad fi beer wi-'UT-ta LA-'it MAT-bakh.And a lion in a well, and a cat who found a kitchen.
وِصَاحْبُه عَمَل فِيلْم.wi-SA7-bu 3A-mal feelm.And his friend made a film.
فِي تَبَات وِنَبَات.fi ta-BAAT wi-na-BAATin peace and plenty, the two rhyming words
وِعَاشُوا فِي تَبَات وِنَبَات.wi-3AA-shu fi ta-BAAT wi-na-BAAT.And they lived in peace and plenty.
دِلْوَقْتِي التُّوتَة يَا اِبْنِي.dil-WA'-ti it-TOO-ta ya IB-ni.Now the mulberry rhyme, my son.
خِلْصِت الحَدُّوتَة.KHIL-sit il-7ad-DOO-tathe tale is over, the she-form of finished and the word for a tale
تُوتَة تُوتَة, خِلْصِت الحَدُّوتَة.TOO-ta TOO-ta KHIL-sit il-7ad-DOO-ta.Mulberry, mulberry, the tale is over.

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