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Bus Wahid here means just one.Is the word 'Bus' meaning the same as in 'Hindi' i.e just,enough,only.?

Yep it means - just, only etc. the guys mention that during the lesson.

Great lesson gents. I find all your lessons useful, no matter what the level. Even in beginners lessons like this one you have dialect words a student at higher levels in Arabic might not have encountered yet. Shukran jaziilan for all your work.

you are right Abid the same word "bus" is used in Hindi as well as Urdu

Im very interested to learn more and apperciate that, these people have taken the time out to help people like us learn the beautiful language

I'm a beginner and I've just signed in. I don't understand what they were discussing about. :

Basically in the lesson dialogue, the one person asks the other how many eggs he'd like for breakfast, and the other person answers "Bus Wa7ed" (بس واحد) which means "just one". The word "bus" or بس in Arabic means "just" or "only".
The guys above are dicussing the fact that in Hindi/Urdu the same word for "just/only" is used as in Arabic.
Hope you know what's going on now

it's very good dialog for practice arabic speaking!

Thank you guys so much. I hope you keep it up, it's very helpful.

Thank you for another great lesson. I find it very useful when you include colloquial expressions from different dialects in the dialogues.

How would tub3'a change if the speaker was speaking to a woman? How would you change it to mean "I want"?

Thank you for all of your hard work on these lessons.

Thanks Onazif.

To say tub3'a if you're speaking to a woman you simply change the end sound so it's pronounced tub3'i

And to say I want you say Ab3’a

Keep it up

thank you... what a helpful lesson...

9aba7 al7'ayr everyone.
I usually come here early in the morning.it's the best time to study because my head is clearer.And I am not bothered by anyone.^^

Shukran for this simple but really useful lesson.I just wanted to say,after listening this lesson,I began to feel the difference between'7'and 'H'sound without thinking.And other unfamiliar sounds began to dawn on me too.I'm just happy.

All the scripts are excellent and I love listening podcasts I've gone through before again.Every time I do that,I find something new that is sheer joy of learning.

Salam. I am still rather confused about be2af6ur. If af6ar means I have breakfast what does the BA in the beginning of be2af6ur mean?

@djstorm1987, The letter ب is often joined to the beginning of the verb in colloquial to make it present progressive (i.e. it is happening now and has not completed yet).

Examples,

آكل - I eat
بآكل - I'm eating

أمشي - I walk
بأمشي - I'm walking

تبغى (Tabgah) sounds like an invitation to somebody to join us in our lunch.. Is it so? Can it be used in a different context?
Thanks again for your lessons, sometimes funny, always useful!

Zarqali, the literal meaning for (tabgha) is (you want). So when the person said (tabgha) he means (would you like some) so it is actually an invitation to try something.

Googling around I've just found that there is a Tabgha in Israel, where according to the Bible Jesus was able to feed a multitude with just some bread and fish. Actually there is a food shop run by a charity in my town called Tabgha. Perhaps what puzzled me about this word was the coincidence...
Thank you Ehab!