Lower Intermediate - Welcome to Egypt

Great idea to do the lesson once in standard Arabic and once in colloquial! Its really useful to hear how a conversation would change going from standard to colloquial. Please consider doing this in more lessons and with other dialects as well.

Keep up the great work!

Omar

i join the comment of onazif - question : why is the passport not an idhafa ? and if it is would it be :
جواز السفر
the safar being in nom.defined and safar in gen.defined ?

how can i get the second part (shift key) of the keybord - when i punch the shiftkey the second keyboard does appear but it disappears as soon as i want to use it - it does not stay - thanks

You can say جواز السفر as the word السفر is defined with ال.. Also you can define the noun سفر by adding tanween at the end, so it becomes جواز سفرٍ .. Nouns are defined either using ال or the tanween.
Regarding to the keyboard,, when you put the mouse over the shift key, you could see the other options of the keys, but you still need to press it (shift) to make it stay, so you can move the mouse to the keys.

Hi guys. Just wanted to encourage you to do a lesson on Mahmoud Darwish. جواز السفر is a good one, but there are many others as well. The great thing is that so many of his poems have been made into beautiful songs by Marcel Khalife, including this one. In fact, thanks to Arabic Pod lessons I can now understand a lot more of the songs when I listen to them, and I am even beginning to read Darwish in Arabic! This gift of song and poetry is very dear to me and I cannot tell you how grateful I am to Arabicpod for this.

thanks a lot for this one....this answers a lot of questions....when i was in dubai i used to always wonder why the "g" was substituted in arabic with a "ج",because it sounded really weird when we read it...especially many products available in the market which were written in english as well as arabic...also english is written at times as "injalizia"..if this is the egyptian way of pronouncing "ج" why is it used all throughout the arab world...

Although well known from Egyptian movies, I found that the 'g' pronunciation of 'ج' was much less common in Upper Egypt (Luxor, Aswan and the South). This standard pronunciation was confirmed when I asked local people about this although they used local dialect words.