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.