Egyptian & Iraqi Arabi - More introducing myself... Egyptian مرحبا إزيِك؟ إسمي كيرستن أنا من أمريكا أنا لا أفهم ألعربية أنا أدرس أللغة ألعربية أنا أحب ألسفر تشرفنا مع السلامة ----------------------------- Iraqi مرحبا شلونچ؟ إسمي كيرستن آني من أمريكا آني لا أفهم ألعربية آني أدرس أللغة ألعربية آني أحب ألسفر تشرفنا مغ السلامة I tried to put together a couple more phrases to introduce myself. It was actually pretty difficult trying to find even this stuff, and I have no idea if I'm even close. I gladly welcome any corrections, especially to make the words more specific to Egyptian and/or Iraqi dialect. شكراً جزيلاً

Egyptian & Iraqi Arabic: Independent & Direct Object Pronouns My teacher and I have not covered Independent Pronouns and Direct Object Pronouns yet, but I see that it is written in the lesson plan for Sunday. Without delving into details of how the grammar works, I thought I would do some studying in advance to at least familiarize myself with the vocabulary. As I have done for all new vocabulary, I tried to find و write down the words in both المصرية والعراقية dialects. But apparently the two dialects are extremely similar when it comes to Independent و Direct Object Pronouns! There are of course a couple of minor differences, but they are so small that I think I will still be understood if I learn the words in the following way: (Lucky for me, I really only have to learn واحد set of words for this list!) English -------> العربية (Independent) -----> العربية (Direct Object) I ------------------> ـــني <--------------------------- أنا / آني You (M) ------> ـــَك <--------------------------------- إنتَ You (F) -------> ـــِك / ـــِچ <-------------------------------- إنتي He --------------> ـــه <---------------------------------- هو She -------------> ـــها <--------------------------------- هي We --------------> ـــنا <-------------------------------- إحنا You (plural) -> ـــكم <-------------------------------- إنتو They ------------> ـــهم <------------------------- هُمَ / همّه Of course أنا would be understood in Iraq, but I included آني because my ultimate goal is of course to learn العراقية dialect. Also, maybe because I hear it so often, آني seems more natural to say. :) Perhaps the next biggest difference is the Direct Object Pronoun for إنتي , which is ـــِك in المصرية and ـــِچ in العراقية. To my beginner ear, I like having the large difference between ـــَك and ـــِچ, it is easier than trying to hear or say the difference between ـــَك and ـــِك. But it's a pretty important difference to be aware of, because ـــِچ is further away from Modern Standard Arabic, so less people might be familiar with it. And if I mixed up ـــَك and ـــِك, I would probably raise a few eyebrows. After that, everything is basically the same until we get to هُمَ / همّه, which based on my audio files, seems to be mainly a difference of spelling. And that's my introduction to Egyptian/Iraqi pronouns!

Egyptian & Iraqi Arabic: Introducing Myself I had my first italki lesson this last Sunday. It was really a planning session where the teacher and I discussed some learning goals, looked at lesson plans, etc. My ultimate goal is to learn العربية العراقية, but it's very difficult to find a teacher or learning materials for العراقية dialect. So I will be taking lessons for العربية المصرية, adding العراقية words و phrases to my vocabulary as I find them, و ان شاء الله I will learn العراقية و المصرية dialects at the same time! Quite a task, but I think it might be manageable. I'm a very new beginner to العربية, so these notebook entries will start out with lots of English. For now, here are my vocabulary words to study for this next lesson. My teacher provides me with المصرية words, و أنا add العراقية words as I find them. Egyptian --------------------> Iraqi آني <------------------------------- أنا إنتَ إنتي <------------------------------ إنتِ أهلاً شنو؟ <------------------------------ إيه؟ إسم من منين شلونك؟ <--------------------------- إزيَّك؟ شلونچ؟ <--------------------------- إزيِّك؟ زين <--------------------------- كويِّس زينة <--------------------------- كويِّسة الحمد الله And just for fun, a couple of simple sentences to test out my newly learned Egyptian and Iraqi vocabulary: إهلاً. إسمي كيرستن. أنا أمريكية. إزيَّك؟ أهلاً. إسمي كيرستن. آني امريكية. شلونك؟ .أنا من أمريكا .آني من أمريكا .إزيِّك؟ كويِّسة .شلونچ؟ آني زينة الحمد الله