Here are the first steps for those who don’t know how to start or what to do

1- Listen to Songs and watch some short movies and videos while looking at subtitles

2- learn some basic phrases and questions:

•  ezzayyak(m)? /ezzayyik (f)? (How are you?)
• ana kewayyis, wa enta ezayyak? (I am good and how are you?)
• esmak eh? (m) esmik eh? (f) (what is your name?)
• ana esmy ……… (My name is ……)
• enta 3andak kam sana? (m) / enty 3andik kam sana? (f) (How old are you?)
• ana 3andy …………….. sana (I am ………. years old)
• enta/enty mneen? (Where are you from?)
• ana min ………….. (I am from ……….)
• enta btashta8al eh? (What do you do?)
• ana mudarris (I am a teacher)
• enta safirt abl kda? (Have you travelled before?)
• aywa ana safirt abl kda (Yes, I travelled before)
• la2, ana msafirtsh abl kda (No, I didn’t travel before)
• hewayatak eh? (what are your hobbies?)
• hewayaty el safar wa el 3oom (my hobbies are travelling and swimming)
• ma7attit el otobees feen? (Where is the bus station?)
• emshy 3alatool wa ed5ol yemeen (go straight and take a right)
• aklitak el mufaddala eh? (what’s your favorite food?)
• aklity el mufadala heyya el koshary (my favorite food is koshary)

3- Question words:

• what = eh
• why = leh
• when = emta
• where = feen

4- Numbers (listen to them first) 

5 – Days of the week:

7ad, etneen, talat, arba3, 5amees, gom3a, sabt

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday

6- Pronouns: ana, enta, enty, ento, howwa, heyya, e7na, homma

7- Object Pronouns (me = nee, you (m) = ak …..)

8- Common verbs (eat=akol, drink=ashrab, see=ashoof, play=al3ab, walk=amshy, talk=atkallim)

9-Common Nouns (school=maddrasa, home=beet, friend=saa7ib,building=mabna)

10- family members (father=ab, mother=om, brother=a5, sister=o5t )

11- Country names (England=engiltra, Egypt=masr,  Brazil=el barazeel, Italy=etalya, Japan=elyaban)

12-Possessives 

13-How to form a sentence (Subj – Verb – Obj)

I play football = ana bal3ab koora

Take between 2 to 5 weeks to learn all those basics on your own, to have a good start into Egyptian Arabic or just sign up to my free course and learn about all of this in just about 2 hours.