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