This 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.
