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1111 Colloquial Arabic of Egypt 4211 THE COLLOQUIAL SERIES Series adviser: Gary King The following languages are available in the Colloquial Series: Afrikaans French Portuguese of Brazil Albanian German Romanian Amharic Greek Russian *Arabic (Levantine) *Gujarati Scottish Gaelic Arabic of Egypt Hebrew Serbian *Arabic of the Gulf Hindi Slovak and Saudi Arabia Hungarian Slovene *Basque Icelandic *Somali Breton Indonesian Spanish *Bulgarian Italian Spanish of Latin America Cambodian Japanese Swahili Cantonese Korean Swedish Catalan Latvian Tamil Chinese Lithuanian Thai Croatian Malay Turkish Czech Mongolian Ukrainian Danish Norwegian *Urdu Dutch *Panjabi Vietnamese English Persian Welsh Estonian Polish Finnish Portuguese COLLOQUIAL CD-ROMs Multimedia Language Courses Chinese French Portuguese Spanish Accompanying cassette(s) and CDs are available for all the above titles (cassettes only for the titles marked with *). They can be ordered through your bookseller, or send payment with order to Routledge Ltd, ITPS, Cheriton House, North Way, Andover, Hants SP10 5BE, or to Routledge Inc, 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA. COLLOQUIAL 2s Series The Next Step in Language Learning Dutch French Italian Russian Spanish Spanish of Latin America 1111 Colloquial Arabic of Egypt The Complete Course for Beginners Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar First edition by Russell McGuirk Published 1986 by Routledge New edition published 2004 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon,OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 711 Third Avenue,New York,NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2004 Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar Typeset in Times by g-and-w PUBLISHING,Oxfordshire,UK All rights reserved.No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical,or other means,now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording,or in any information storage or retrieval system,without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Wightwick,Jane. Colloquial Arabic of Egypt:the complete course for beginners/Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar.– 2nd ed. p.cm. (Colloquial series) 1.Arabic language – Textbooks for foreign speakers – English. I.Gaafar,Mahmoud.II.Title.III.Series. PJ6307.W52 2003 492.7’82421 – dc21 ISBN13:978–0–415–27689– 4 (book) ISBN13: 978–0–415–28694–7 (CD) ISBN13: 978–0–415–42698–5 (pack) 1111 For Zeinah 4211 Contents 1111 Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 Arabic sounds and alphabet 3 1 áhlan wa sáhlan! 8 Hello and welcome! 2 9ílti 19 My family 3 tíshrab shay? 32 Would you like tea? 4 fíihaa takíif? 46 Does it have air conditioning? 5 eh kamáan? 56 Anything else? 6 shákluh eh? 72 What does he look like? 7 kída áHsan 83 That’s better 8 muráaga9a 97 Review 9 Hayáati 102 My life 4211 viii 10 b-aHíbb Sayd is-sámak 120 I like fishing 11 9ála Tuul! 132 Straight on! 12 inbasáTt fi faránsa? 144 Did you enjoy yourself in France? 13 min zamáan 157 A long time ago 14 máT9am in-niil 171 The Nile Restaurant Structure summary 185 Arabic script supplement (dialogues in Arabic script) 209 Key to exercises 234 English–Arabic glossary 257 Arabic–English glossary 280 Acknowledgements 1111 We would like to acknowledge the various reviewers of the manuscript for this course, particularly Dr Waheed Samy of Michigan University for his useful suggestions on the romanization. We appreciated also the support we received from the Routledge team, particularly Sophie Oliver, James Folan and Della Tsiftsopoulou,and the Colloquial series editor,Gary King. Our final thanks go to our families in England and Egypt for helping us with the photographs – and acting as models in some of them – and to Charles and Maha for the pictures of their elegant villa in Ein Sukhna. 4211 Introduction 1111 The Arabic language Arabic is often thought of as having separate ‘spoken’ and ‘written’ forms.The ‘spoken’ being the various dialects of the 20 or so Arabic- speaking countries, and the ‘written’ being the Standard Arabic taught in schools and understood by all educated Arabs. It is true that most conversations take place in the colloquial language and most written material is in Standard Arabic. But the factor determining which is used is more to do with the formality of the situation than how the communication is delivered.A mother might dash off a quick note to her kids in colloquial.On the other hand, a high-level television political debate would probably be conducted in Standard Arabic – although a soap opera would be in colloquial. Communication between different Arab nationalities tends to include at least elements of Standard Arabic where dialects might be mutually incomprehensible. Egyptian colloquial is perhaps the most vibrant and universally understood of the many spoken dialects of Arabic. Egypt is the centre of popular Arab culture, exporting its films, soap operas, popular programmes, songs and advertisements to fill the mushrooming airtime of the Arabic TV channels. The differences between the colloquial and the Standard become less the more elevated the subject matter. Even at the basic level, it tends to be vocabulary that is most affected.The structure of the language remains largely recognizable. So, whichever way you approach the language – from an initial study of the colloquial or of Standard Arabic,you will find it a good basis for expanding your knowledge to other areas. 4211

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