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🇪🇬 Egyptian Arabic · Intermediate Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 29 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

A Life in Eight Lines

In the sleeper's compartment a fellow passenger from Luxor asks the classic questions: where are you from, you speak Arabic like this, I was born and grew up in Chicago, I've been here two years, I studied architecture and graduated, I became a restorer of old houses, what brought you to Egypt.

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THE STORY

A compartment of the night train from Luxor to Cairo, dinner trays taken away. The fellow passenger, a man of about seventy, speaks plainly to Leo and calls him son; Leo answers politely.

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إِنْتَ مِنِين, يَا اِبْنِي?IN-ta mi-NEEN, ya IB-ni?Where are you from, son?
إِنْتَ مِتْجَوِّز, يَا اِبْنِي?IN-ta mit-GAW-wiz, ya IB-ni?Are you married, son?
وِبِتِتْكَلِّم عَرَبِي كِدَه?wi-bi-tit-KAL-lim 3A-ra-bi KI-da?And you speak Arabic like this?
اِتْوَلَدْت.it-wa-LADTI was born
مِن شِيكَاغُو, فِي أَمْرِيكَا.min shi-KAA-ghu, fi am-REE-kafrom Chicago, in America
اِتْوَلَدْت وِكِبِرْت فِي شِيكَاغُو.it-wa-LADT wi-ki-BIRT fi shi-KAA-ghu.I was born and grew up in Chicago.
وَأَنَا هِنَا بَقَى لِي سَنَتِين.wa-'A-na HI-na BA-'a li sa-na-TEEN.And I've been here two years.
وِدَرَسْت إِيه, يَا اِبْنِي?wi-da-RAST eeh, ya IB-ni?And what did you study, son?
دَرَسْت عِمَارَة وِاتْخَرَّجْت.da-RAST 3i-MAA-ra wit-khar-RAGTI studied architecture and graduated
دَرَسْت عِمَارَة, وِبَقِيت بَارَمِّم بُيُوت قَدِيمَة.da-RAST 3i-MAA-ra, wi-ba-'EET ba-RAM-mim bu-YOOT 'a-DEE-ma.I studied architecture, and became a restorer of old houses.

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