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🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 8 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Fisherman and the Genie

Reading to Salma at home in Maadi, the Fisherman and the Genie: a poor fisherman casts his net, and while he is pulling finds a brass jar; a genie comes out, with the fisherman standing there; the fisherman tricks him back in and throws him in the sea. Two things at once: and he, then the verb or the participle.

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THE STORY

The living room of the Maadi flat, a weekday evening, Layla asleep. Leo reads Salma the tale he will tell at the club; husband and wife speak plainly to each other.

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لِيه دِي اللَّيْلَة?leeh di il-LEE-la?Why that one tonight?
اِقْرَا بِالرَّاحَة.I'-ra bir-RAA-7a.Read slowly.
صَيَّاد غَلْبَان بِيرْمِي شَبَكَة.say-YAAD ghal-BAAN bi-YIR-mi SHA-ba-ka.A poor fisherman casts a net.
فَتَحُه, طَبْعاً.fa-TA-7u, TAB-3an.He opened it, of course.
طِلِع عَفْرِيت, وِالصَّيَّاد وَاقِف.TI-li3 3af-REET, wis-say-YAAD WAA-'if.A genie came out, with the fisherman standing there.
وِالعَفْرِيت قَال إِيه?wil-3af-REET 'aal eeh?And what did the genie say?
قَال لُه, هَاقْتِلَك!'aal lu, ha'-TI-lak!He said to him, I'll kill you!
قَال لُه, إِنْتَ أَكْبَر مِنُّه!'aal lu, IN-ta AK-bar MIN-nu!He said to him, you're bigger than it!
وِهُوَّ بِيِضْحَك.wi-HUW-wa bi-YID-7akand he, laughing
دَخَل تَانِي, وِهُوَّ بِيِضْحَك.DA-khal TAA-ni, wi-HUW-wa bi-YID-7ak.He went back in, laughing.

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