Lower Intermediate - Egyptian: The nearest bookshop

Interesting, and welcome on board! :-)

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?

An excellent first lesson. Alf mabruk!

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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?

Thank you very much for adding the Egyptian dialect. We would love to see more Egyptian lessons.

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