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KarenFaucheux saysFri 1st Apr 11@09:10 pmInteresting, and welcome on board! :-)
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I found this lesson very stimulating. I've noticed that Egyptians often use "da" in the sense of "it". For instance, they'll say things like "da kaan mujarrad (pronounced muGarrad) iqtiraah" (= it was only a suggestion). Where does the pronoun "da" come from, and would it be used in the Gaza Strip (qita' ghazza), in Libya or in northern Sudan?
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An excellent first lesson. Alf mabruk!
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hada?
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I like your new hosts' voices, Ehab, it's a very good idea to get more diverse samples of native Arabic speakers. Especially, since one of the biggest challenges for us foreigners learning Arabic is that you have such a wide divergence of accents/dialects. It's like if you were a foreigner who learned all your English as Cockney for many years, and then all of a sudden you had a chance to visit Alabama... and I think that understates the problem when it comes to Arabic, doesn't it?
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Thank you very much for adding the Egyptian dialect. We would love to see more Egyptian lessons.
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Thanks so much for giving us lessons in Egyptian dialect! Will there eventually be as many Egyptian lessons as Levantine lessons on the site?
All the best
Lower Intermediate - Egyptian: The nearest bookshop
April 1st, 2011 | 1 comment |
In our first of a series of Egyptian podcasts, our new female hosts talk about how to get directions to a bookshop in one of the downtown markets of Egypt. The Egyptian dialect should be quite easy to learn once you know MSA; you just need to know the differences in pronunciation.
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