Egyptian Arabic for Beginners
A friendly introduction to spoken Egyptian Arabic for absolute beginners.
Created by
Ali Adel Gad
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- Native Egyptian Arabic audio
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About this course
If you only ever learn one Arabic, learn this one.
Arabic is not one language in practice. Every country speaks its own. Egyptian is the one the whole Arab world already understands — so it travels further than any other choice you can make.
people speak Egyptian Arabic every day — and far more understand it, from Casablanca to Baghdad.
Widely understood in
The Arab world grew up on it
Eighty years of Egyptian films, songs and TV went into every Arab home. That is why an Egyptian speaker is understood almost anywhere — and a Moroccan or Iraqi speaker often is not.
The biggest single group of speakers
No other dialect has this many people using it in one place. More speakers means more films, more music, more people to practise with.
People answer you back
Standard Arabic is for newspapers and speeches. Nobody chats in it. Egyptian is the language of the café, the taxi, the family table.
إنت بتتكلم عربي كويس!inta bititkallim ʿarabi kwayyis! — "you speak Arabic well!"It is the faster road
Shorter words, simpler endings, easier sounds. You hold a real conversation months before a classical-Arabic student does.
Ali Adel Gad
Egyptian · Giza · Teaching since 2020
I'm Ali — born and raised in Egypt, and a native teacher of the dialect. I've written three books on learning Arabic; The Most Essential Egyptian Arabic Book has sold over 5,000 copies in print and digital. Six years of teaching, more than 3,000 hours of lessons, and today Speak Arabi runs over 1,000 teaching hours every month. Every one of those hours was with non-native speakers — so I know where people get stuck. Which sounds are hard. Which words the textbooks give you that no Egyptian has ever said out loud. These courses are built around that, and they teach the Arabic people actually speak, not the Arabic of news broadcasts.
- Author of Egyptian Arabic Rules Decoded
- Author of The Most Essential Egyptian Arabic
- Founder, Speak-Arabi & Speak-Saudi academies
- 2,000+ teaching hours delivered every month
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This course includes:
- Native Egyptian Arabic audio
- Access on mobile, tablet & desktop
- Full lifetime access