Egyptian Arabic Basics

There is one advice that can be given to those wishing to learn Arabic. Actually, this advice is essential to avoid spending much effort, time and money to learn something unnecessarily. The advice is to simply determine what you need the Arabic for.  If you want to learn reading, writing  books and formal materials in Arabic, You should learn Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). However, If you need to learn Arabic to communicate with people, learn one of the spoken dialects. Egyptian Arabic is one of the major Arabic dialects to be studied for many reasons. Egypt is the largest Arabic-speaking country in terms of population, and is also one of the largest touristic destinations. Also. there is a wealth of Egyptian media and culture to enjoy as you start to understand the language.

This online book “Egyptian Arabic Basics”, gives you the starting point to learn the language. You first begin with the vocabulary, learning nouns, adjectives, pronouns among other language elements. With the Champolu approach, you start to learn how to put these elements together. You get to see how easy and logical things are. You begin to understand the patterns and the big picture of the language. All this is happening while giving minimal instructions to memorize words and rules and learn things by heart. Just follow the flow of the book, and work through the examples and exercises, and things will start to come naturally to you.

Since language is primarily spoken, this book includes an interactive version where you can actually listen to the audio of each example in the book.

In addition, each section has practice exercises, both testing your knowledge of how to generate new sentences in Egyptian Arabic, and also how to understand new sentences.

Topics covered in the book:

Nouns
– Definite and Indefinite Nouns
– Noun Gender (Male – Female)
– Plurals
Pronouns
– Personal Pronouns
Adjectives
– Adjectives with Nouns
– Adjectives with pronouns
– Colors
Numbers
– Basic Counting
– Counting Things
Demonstratives
Possessives
Genitive Expressions
Prepositions
Existentials
Verb “to be”
Verb “to have”
Negation
– Negating verb “to be”
– Negating verb “to have”
– Negating “there is”
Coordination
– Coordination with “and”
– Coordination with “or”
– Coordination with “but”

This book comes with a money-back guarantee: if you don’t find the book useful for your needs, let us know within a week of the purchase and you will get a full refund.