Very useful lesson! I highly enjoyed it!
I actually have a question about Egyptian Arabic,
I was watching a music video by Amr Diab, it's called "Tammally maak"...
The first line in Arabic I think is this.
"تم لي معك"
Now, I saw a translation for this as "I am always with you"... does it mean something literally like "It completes me being with you"?

Does "Tamally= تم لي" mean Always in Egyptian? Sorry for the weird question, but I figured you guys are the best teachers to know!

شكرا
تومز

Oh and any idea how to shrink images? I want to add my picture, but i can't reduce any of pictures to 20k. thanks
tomes

Salam;
Just quick question, is there any difference in saying ta7meel and tanzeel? or they exactly the same?
Thanx

Ahlan tomest05;
I don’t blame you for the confusion, when this song same on, I remember myself asking the question: what does (tamally ma3aak) mean?!
I asked some Egyptian friends and they told me that (tamally) is a very colloquial word in Egypt that means (I’m always).
Therefore, it has nothing to do with the classical Arabic and we can’t split it to tamma ly ma3aak as you described.
By the way, these kinds of songs are always colloquial and sometimes Arabs find it hard to understand .
About your image, if you have Photoshop, just reduce the quality of the image when you save it. Also you can open the image in Paint (PC) or in iPhoto (Mac) and try to save it as JPG, this format normally gives small sizes. If you couldn’t manage to do any of the previous ways, just e-mail us the image and we’ll sort out for you.
Ta7eyyaty
Ehab

Ahlan ArabicBoy;
The word ta7meel comes from the root 7amala which means (to carry up), while the word tanzeel comes from the root nazala which means to get down.
So, ta7meel means to carry something from lower place to a higher place, while tanzeel is to take something down from high to low places, therefore, the best way to translate "download" is (tanzeel), however, in the internet, the word that is commonly used for download is ta7meel, which is not very accurate, but still can be accepted since the meaning behind it is known.
The word ta7meel is used to describe uploading things, therefore, the most accurate translation for the word ta7meel is upload, and tanzeel is download.
Hope that clarifies it.
salaam

Ehab,

Thanks very much for your help! Hehehe, Arabic is such a rich language it amazes me that fluent Arabic speakers from different countries still have to consort with each other over meanings! I was listening to a Moroccan سلسلة (sitcom?), and I heard the word 3fek (please) for the first time. Wow, that is completely different from "min fadlak" or "raj3an". I find that the most wonderful thing about Arabic though you can always learn more and new things even if you have learned for many years! Also thanks for using both words for download! I have seen both on Arabic music sites!

الحمد الله
تومز
P.S. I will try to fix my picture soon.