Tag Archives: The Egyptian Dialect
Egyptian Proverbs (10) Posted by Fisal on Mar 30, 2016
Arabic proverbs الأمــْــثــَــال الــعــَــرَبــِــيــَّـــة reflect the beauty جــَــمــَــال of the Arabic Language and the wisdom حــِــكــْــمــَــة of the Arabs and their culture. In Egypt, these proverbs are part of everyone’s daily routine. There is no one single situation مــَــوْقــِــف that would not have the perfect proverb tailored for it. Just for the sake of…
How To Learn Egyptian Arabic Posted by Fisal on Feb 24, 2016
Ahlan, Arabic lovers! In some previous posts, we discussed the dialect phenomenon that distinguishes the Arabic language and that may be a source of a continuous pain to most foreigners studying Arabic. Today, we are going to share some advice on how to learn the Egyptian dialect; how to talk like an Egyptian!…
Amr Diab; “With Him” Posted by Fisal on Sep 30, 2015
Ahlan, Arabic fans! Today I am presenting a beautiful song by Amr Diab عــَـــمــْـــرو دِيــَـــاب . The song is entitled “ويــَّــاه /Wayyah/” which translates literally as “With Him”. Surprisingly, slang Arabic can address females in the form of males, so Amr means “With My Love”. Slang or dialectic Arabic is a…
Reading Exercise: Abdel-Rahman Al-Abnudi Posted by Fisal on Apr 23, 2015
اِقــرأ الـقــطـــعــــة الـتــالــيـــة ثــم أجـــب عـــن الأســئــلـــــــة Read the and following passage and then answer the questions: “عــبــد الرحــمــن الأبــنــودى هــو شــاعــر و مــؤلــف أغــانــى مصــرى مــشــهور . كــتــب الأبــنــودى قــصــائــده و أغــانــيــه بــالــلــهــجــة الــمــصــريــة الــعــامــيــة . ولــِــدَ الــشــاعــر فــى قــريــة أبــنــود فــى صــعــيــد مــصــر ، مــحــافــظــة قــنــا ، فى 11 أبــريــل 1938 . كــان…
Egyptian Proverbs (9) Posted by Fisal on Mar 25, 2015
Arabic proverbs الأمــْــثــَــال الــعــَــرَبــِــيــَّـــة reflect the beauty جــَــمــَــال of the Arabic Language and the wisdom حــِــكــْــمــَــة of the Arabs and their culture. In Egypt, these proverbs are part of everyone’s daily routine. There is no one single situation مــَــوْقــِــف that would not have the perfect proverb tailored for it. Just for the sake of…
Egyptian Proverbs (7) Posted by Fisal on Feb 10, 2013
Arabic proverbs الأمــثـــال الــعــربــيــــة reflect the beauty جــمـــال of the Arabic Language and the wisdom حــكــمــة of the Arabs الــعــرب and their culture الــثــقـــافـــة . In Egypt, these proverbs are part of everyone’s daily routine. There is no one single situation مــوقــف that would not have the perfect proverb tailored for it. Just for…
Egyptian Proverbs (5) Posted by Fisal on May 19, 2012
Arabic proverbs reflect the beauty of the Arabic Language and the wisdom of the Arabs and their culture. In Egypt, these proverbs are part of everyone’s daily routine. There is no one single situation that would not have the perfect proverb tailored for it. Just for the sake of fun, I am going to…