This easy-to-use beginner?s level guide to Egyptian Colloquial Arabic (ECA) grammar is theideal supplement for students of ECA as a foreign language. Keda Mazbuut is divided intotwenty-five lessons, each devoted to a key grammatical rule, with examples to illustrate usagefollowed by a variety of exercises.Drawing on twenty-five years of experience as a full-time teacher of Arabic, Mona Hassan hasorganized the lesson topics to gradually progress in difficulty, from basic nominal sentences tomore complex grammatical structures such as the imperative and conditional sentences.All rules are explained in straightforward English, while words and phrases are provided inboth Arabic script and transcribed Arabic, accompanied by audio files to facilitate students?ECA pronunciation. With its clear, user-friendly structure, Keda Mazbuut is designed toencourage students to work through grammatical rules at home, allowing them to devote moreclass time to the speaking activities that reinforce those rules.

Biografía del autor



Mona Kamel Hassan is currently a senior Arabic language instructor in the Department of Arabic Language Instruction (ALI) at the AUC, where she has taught Arabic as a Foreign Language (AFL) since 1994. She has been teaching AFL since 1990. She is co-author of Roving Eye: Head to Toe in Egyptian Arabic Expressions (2014).