How are you? Not bad!
In an all-audio audiocourse I am taking, I have come across this conversation: How are you? Not bad. It is translated in a way that sounds more or less like this:
كيف الحال؟ ما شي الحال
ma shil hal is the expression that I can't get and that probably I am writing wrongly, because I cannot find it in my vocabulary. I know that bad is to be translated as سئ but the audio does sound absolutely as a shin. Thus, or I am getting it wrongly, or the course is wrong (not very much likely, though).
ألف شكر لالمساعدتي
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How are you? Not bad!
In an all-audio audiocourse I am taking, I have come across this conversation: How are you? Not bad. It is translated in a way that sounds more or less like this:
كيف الحال؟ ما شي الحال
"Mashi elhal" is the expression that I can't get and that probably I am writing wrongly, because I cannot find it in my vocabulary. I know that bad is to be translated as سئ but the audio does sound absolutely as a shin. Thus, or I am getting it wrongly, or the course is wrong (not very much likely, though).
ألف شكرلمساعدتي
PS: Usually this expression is used in our dialects and this is probably why you can't find it in your vocabulary, but it's not the usual response in MSA to the question "How are you". The meaning of "mashi elhal ماشي الحال" is something like "things are working and going smoothly". And سيء is pronounced like this: sayyeá and as you already said it means bad.
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Yes, thank you!
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Hi Giacomo, You cannot translate certain sentences literally but the meaning is not "Not bad" but more like "va tutto bene".
Ma shi = camminare = andar avanti;
el hal = la situazione = le cose.
I hope I have helped you!
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