Egyptian & Iraqi Arabi - More introducing myself... Egyptian مرحبا إزيِك؟ إسمي كيرستن أنا من أمريكا أنا لا أفهم ألعربية أنا أدرس أللغة ألعربية أنا أحب ألسفر تشرفنا مع السلامة ----------------------------- Iraqi مرحبا شلونچ؟ إسمي كيرستن آني من أمريكا آني لا أفهم ألعربية آني أدرس أللغة ألعربية آني أحب ألسفر تشرفنا مغ السلامة I tried to put together a couple more phrases to introduce myself. It was actually pretty difficult trying to find even this stuff, and I have no idea if I'm even close. I gladly welcome any corrections, especially to make the words more specific to Egyptian and/or Iraqi dialect. شكراً جزيلاً

Egyptian & Iraqi Arabic: Independent & Direct Object Pronouns My teacher and I have not covered Independent Pronouns and Direct Object Pronouns yet, but I see that it is written in the lesson plan for Sunday. Without delving into details of how the grammar works, I thought I would do some studying in advance to at least familiarize myself with the vocabulary. As I have done for all new vocabulary, I tried to find و write down the words in both المصرية والعراقية dialects. But apparently the two dialects are extremely similar when it comes to Independent و Direct Object Pronouns! There are of course a couple of minor differences, but they are so small that I think I will still be understood if I learn the words in the following way: (Lucky for me, I really only have to learn واحد set of words for this list!) English -------> العربية (Independent) -----> العربية (Direct Object) I ------------------> ـــني <--------------------------- أنا / آني You (M) ------> ـــَك <--------------------------------- إنتَ You (F) -------> ـــِك / ـــِچ <-------------------------------- إنتي He --------------> ـــه <---------------------------------- هو She -------------> ـــها <--------------------------------- هي We --------------> ـــنا <-------------------------------- إحنا You (plural) -> ـــكم <-------------------------------- إنتو They ------------> ـــهم <------------------------- هُمَ / همّه Of course أنا would be understood in Iraq, but I included آني because my ultimate goal is of course to learn العراقية dialect. Also, maybe because I hear it so often, آني seems more natural to say. :) Perhaps the next biggest difference is the Direct Object Pronoun for إنتي , which is ـــِك in المصرية and ـــِچ in العراقية. To my beginner ear, I like having the large difference between ـــَك and ـــِچ, it is easier than trying to hear or say the difference between ـــَك and ـــِك. But it's a pretty important difference to be aware of, because ـــِچ is further away from Modern Standard Arabic, so less people might be familiar with it. And if I mixed up ـــَك and ـــِك, I would probably raise a few eyebrows. After that, everything is basically the same until we get to هُمَ / همّه, which based on my audio files, seems to be mainly a difference of spelling. And that's my introduction to Egyptian/Iraqi pronouns!