Conversational Arabic Quick and Easy: Egyptian Dialect, Spoken Egyptian Arabic, Colloquial Arabic of Egypt

Of several Egyptian Arabic books I have, this is the easiest level for beginers. Each page has a short vocabulary list, followed by several sentences, and usually followed by important grammatical insights. All Arabic is accompanied by Romanized transliteration. There is a very good amount of material, and not overwhelming. After learning at least about 90 percent of this book then you can go on to something like Kalaam Kull Yoom situational Egyptian Arabic. After you get a good handle on that there is Egyptian Arabic Easy Short Stories with English Translationa. To avoid getting lost or being overwhelmed it is important to start with a beginner friendly level. Nitzany's Conversational Arabic Quick and Easy meets that need.

It’s great to start with but I felt like a lot of the phrases I wouldn’t typically use.

If you want to learn Egyptian Arabic then I would recommend Yatir Nitzany's book. I have some limited experience with this dialect and this book is helping me with fundamentals and learning more.

The media could not be loaded. Has a lot of sayings that you would use in everyday conversations. It's mainly for teaching yourself how to put words into a proper sentence. Sadly for me though, its not the type of book i was looking for. I wanted a book that broke down exactly how to say each word. Like, if the word is "zayek" (how are you/whats-up), i would have liked the word to be written 2 ways. For example: Zayek, pronounced (zay-yehk). Habibi, pronounced (hah-bee-bee).

What prompted me to purchase this book was the fact that this entire book was in English transliteration (Latin letters) since taking on the pain staking task of learning to read Arabic isn't on my agenda at the moment. It was an amazing book, very informative, and interesting. Shukran

I feel that I nee to be honest over here.I was a little disappointed buying this book. It doesn not actually have the Arabic letters. it only has the phonetic translation. I think the preview of the book should show the actual pages of the book....not just the introduction and table of contents. It

With this book I managed to expand my knowledge of the Egyptian dialect. I definitely recommend this. I love how easy it is to learn with this method.

Nitzany's process seemed a lot like the way I learn languages so I was interested to see it formalized.Firstly, I have to say I am going to continue with his series, but...I was disappointed by some things.I chose a language I had some knowledge of as my test language. Arabic. So lesson 1 had 26 words to memorize. Ok, did that. Example: this is=dafor you=leek. So when one of the exercise sentences to construct from memorized vocabulary was 'This is for you'. I said 'da leek'.. the printed answer is 'da ashanak'. Ashanakwas not one of the 26 words, no explanation.I noticed other 'not in 26' words but they were new nouns. Ok with that.Of the 350 to be memorized words. I only had issue with one. Diamond. Not a word I would have thought essential at this point of study. Made me wonder if all 27 languages have the same 350 essential words. Also might have organised the lesson block of words differently. So. If i needed the language tomorrow I'd make my own selections.So basically an editor would be a good idea. But overall, I'm impressed and have already ordered a language I do not know.Good job.

A great beginners book and something specifically for the Egyptian dialect is rare but you won't be as fluent as claimed by the end of the book even with memorising everything.

An interesting concept that Yatir has applied to any language. A small number of high-frequency words that you can mix and match to be able to express your needs and thoughts. All present tense. Allows you to communicate with others at a basic level. Good concept. Difficult to stick with if you're more "organizational" in your thought/learning process.

This book is transliterated which makes it easier for me to learn from. The conversations are on various topics with vocabulary translated into English on each page. At the back is a very useful section showing the most common verbs in the present tense. There are no grammar explanations as explained in the product description but as I am not a complete beginner, I didn't find this a problem.

Disappointing and carelessly written. In many places it gives the impression that it is the draft of the real book. The accompanying audio MP3 that can be downloaded is comical with a robot reading the words. While I can understand the usefulness of synthesised speech, I think it is totally inadequate for conveying the correct pronunciation (especially if the machine is poorly constructed).