Kalaam Kull Yoom 1: Situational Egyptian Arabic is designed to help elementary and intermediate learners succeed at critical moments during everyday communicative tasks.
By studying the dialogues, learning new vocabulary and key expressions, and listening to the accompanying audio, you will soon find yourself able to express yourself with confidence and understand people in Egypt with fewer misunderstandings..
Synonyms, alternative expressions, and supplementary vocabulary are provided to help you form your own sentences to express yourself and to be prepared for the variety of possible things you may hear Egyptians say to you.
The purpose of the dialogues is to teach you different words and phrases that you can use and that you may hear.
Of course, you\'re not going to go out into the real world and have conversations with people that follow the dialogues line by line.
Use the Table of Contents at the front of the book (also located on the back cover of the paperback edition, for your convenience) to find the topic that interests you for your immediate or future communicative goals.
This is not a coursebook with chapters that build on each other and need to be studied in order.
How do you say "not too short"? What\'s the word for "sideburns"? How do I make small talk with my barber? (I knew that Egyptian barbers were chatty ) It was a lot of research to accomplish a simple task I\'d taken for granted back home.
I would bring lists to my teacher.
But how? I found myself flipping through various course books and pocket dictionaries looking for words and phrases to use with the barber.
Understandably, I wanted to prepare before I tried to tackle specific communicative challenges-such as getting my hair cut.
I was always worried that my awkward exchanges with locals made me come across as rude because I didn\'t know the right things to say at the right times.
But I would so often find myself in situations unable to express my thoughts and needs and struggling to understand what people were saying to me. or so I thought.
I knew "lots of words"...
I could conjugate verbs and form basic sentences.
I had a pretty good grasp on colloquial Arabic grammar.
This is the book I wish I had when I first went to live in Egypt.
Free audio download available at www.
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Lists of key vocabulary and expressions.
Hundreds of language and culture notes.
Arabic script with phonemic transcription and English translations. (See the Table of Contents for the full list of chapters.) Each chapter includes several mini-dialogues and an extended dialogue in authentic, everyday Egyptian Arabic.
The 16 chapters focus on everyday situations such as transportation, eating out, socializing, health.
This is the first of two books in a series.
Kalaam Kull Yoom 1: Situational Egyptian Arabic is designed to help elementary and intermediate learners succeed at critical moments during everyday communicative tasks
