Bilmasri [in Egyptian Arabic]

What it actually is

Nesrin Amin took news stories and fiction in Modern Standard Arabic, adapted them into Egyptian, read the Egyptian version slowly and then spent the second half explaining in English exactly which sounds, endings and words had changed. Nothing else answers the question an MSA-trained learner actually has when they arrive in Cairo. It stopped publishing in 2022 and bilmasri.com is now offline, so this is an archive: the episodes still stream, the blog transcripts no longer resolve.

What it covers

• Listening
• Grammar
• Vocabulary

How it teaches

• Comprehensible Input — Acquire a language by understanding lots of messages slightly above your level, rather than by studying rules.

Listed for

• Arabic

Official links

• Listen Notes ↗

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