Kalaam Kull Yoom 1: Situational Egyptian Arabic is designed to help elementary and intermediate learners succeed at critical moments during everyday communicative tasks.
This is the first of two books in a series.
The 16 chapters focus on everyday situations such as transportation, eating out, socializing, health.
(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.
Arabic script with phonemic transcription and English translations.
Hundreds of language and culture notes.
Lists of key vocabulary and expressions.
Free audio download available at www.
Lingualism.
This is the book I wish I had when I first went to live in Egypt.
I had a pretty good grasp on colloquial Arabic grammar.
I could conjugate verbs and form basic sentences.
I knew lots of words.
or so I thought.
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.
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.
Understandably, I wanted to prepare before I tried to tackle specific communicative challenges-such as getting my hair cut.
But how? I found myself flipping through various course books and pocket dictionaries looking for words and phrases to use with the barber.
I would bring lists to my teacher.
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.
This is not a coursebook with chapters that build on each other and need to be studied in order.
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 yo.
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Lingualism Situational egyptian arabic 1: kalaam kull yoom, paperback/alaa abou el nour
