Aldrich Matthew. Egyptian Arabic Diaries: Reading and Listening Practice in Authentic Spoken Arabic

Lingualism, 2016. — 148 p.Egyptian Arabic Diaries provides intermediate and advanced learners with authentic materials to practice both reading and listening skills in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA). The twenty texts that appear in this book have been written and recorded by native speakers from around Egypt. Dubbed diary entries, the texts are short personal essays that the contributors have chosen to share with learners of their language.Each diary entry appears in various forms to allow you to study the language from a variety of focal points:
the typed, unvoweled text.
The handwritten text.
The English translation.
A three-column study focus.
The voweled text.
Phonemic transcription.
Word-by-word translation.
Original audio.
Slow audio.