Description
Book SynopsisThis easy-to-use beginner’s level guide to Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA) grammar is the ideal supplement for students of ECA as a foreign language. Keda Mazbuut is divided into twenty-five lessons, each devoted to a key grammatical rule, with examples to illustrate usage followed by a variety of exercises. Drawing on twenty-five years of experience as a full-time teacher of Arabic, Mona Hassan has organized the lesson topics to gradually progress in difficulty, from basic nominal sentences to more complex grammatical structures such as the imperative and conditional sentences. All rules are explained in straightforward English, while words and phrases are provided in both Arabic script and transcribed Arabic, accompanied by audio files to facilitate students’ ECA pronunciation. With its clear, user-friendly structure, Keda Mazbuut is designed to encourage students to work through grammatical rules at home, allowing them to devote more class time to the speaking activities that reinforce those rules.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Cairene Colloquial Arabic Phonetic Symbols
List of Abbreviations
Lesson 1: Singular Nouns, Masculine and Feminine
Lesson 2: The Definite Article
Lesson 3: Personal and Demonstrative Pronouns
Lesson 4: Verb ‘to Be’
Lesson 5: Interrogatives
Lesson 6: Nisba Adjectives
Lesson 7: Possessive Adjectives
Lesson 8: Possessive Nouns
Lesson 9: Prepositions and Adverbs
Lesson 10: Dual and Plural Nouns
Lesson 11: Adjectives, Comparatives, and Superlatives
Lesson 12: Numbers
Lesson 13: Telling the Time
Lesson 14: Conjugation of Past Tense Verbs
Lesson 15: Negation of Past Tense Verbs
Lesson 16: The Relative Pronoun
Lesson 17: The Unmarked Present
Lesson 18: Negation of the Unmarked Present
Lesson 19: Conjugation of Habitual Verbs
Lesson 20: Negation of Habitual Verbs
Lesson 21: Conjugation of Future Tense Verbs, Affirmative and Negative
Lesson 22: Object Pronouns
Lesson 23: The Imperative (Commands)
Lesson 24: Conditional Sentences
Lesson 25: The Active Participle
Appendix: A List of Verbs in the Past Tense and the Unmarked Present
