Speak Like a Local:
Master Colloquial Arabic with Confidence!

Note that:

All the descriptions for Egyptian Arabic Dialect levels apply to all of the other Colloquial Arabic dialects
(Sudanese, Levantine, Iraqi, Gulf, Tunisian )

colloquial arabic

Do you want to speak Arabic like a native? Whether you’re traveling, living in an Arab country, or engaging with Arab communities abroad, speaking the local dialect makes all the difference. Our Colloquial Arabic course is designed to help you gain the practical, real-world communication skills you need for day-to-day life across the Arab world and understand the Arabic varieties.

In this dynamic and interactive program, we go beyond textbooks and focus on the real language people use every day — from street conversations and family chats to cultural expressions and regional slang. It’s the perfect course for anyone who wants to connect more deeply with Arabic speakers.

Why Learn Colloquial Arabic?

While Modern Standard Arabic is used in media, education, and formal writing, colloquial Arabic language dialects are what you’ll hear in homes, marketplaces, cafés, and taxis throughout the Arab countries. Mastering any of them allows you to break language barriers, make local friends, and experience culture on a personal level.

This course focuses on the most widely understood Arabic varieties, starting with Egyptian colloquial Arabic — a fun, lively, and widely recognized dialect thanks to Egypt’s influential film and media industry, to other different Arabic language dialects -read this article for more about these dialects-. If you’re looking for conversational Egyptian Arabic or want to explore different Arabic dialects, you’re in the right place.

What Makes This Course Unique?

Our course is tailored and taught by professional native Arabic teachers like Mrs. Samia Louis -the author of “Kallimni Arabi” series- for learners who want a fast, practical path to fluency. We emphasize authentic dialogues, cultural context, and natural expression. Whether you want to learn conversational colloquial Arabic for travel, study, or work, this course equips you with the tools to navigate real-life interactions.

In addition, we’ve built the course to support your journey step by step — from basic Arabic words and phrases to more advanced daily communication.

Explore the Rich World of Arabic Language Dialects

Arabic language dialects vary from region to region, and each one carries its own charm and history. This course introduces you to essential features of colloquial Arabic dialects like Egyptian dialect, Levantine, Gulf Arabic, Sudanese and others. However, we primarily focus on the easy Egyptian Arabic that opens doors in multiple regions.

Our program blends listening, speaking, and cultural training to ensure you’re not just memorizing — you’re truly communicating. By the end of your course, you’ll feel confident in daily Arabic conversation and everyday interactions. Let’s explore how each phase builds your skills and confidence.

Beginner

30 – 40 class hours online 

Course Materials: 

  • Kallimni Arabi bishweesh – Published Book  1 –  Modules (1 – 10) 
  • Listening materials: AUC Press
  • The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab. 
  • Extra authentic materials. 

Arabic Lessons for Beginners Outcomes:

Oral Skills: 

After doing these Arabic lessons for beginners and by the end of this course you will be able to: 

  • Greet others and introduce one-self. 
  • Ask who people are, and where they are from. 
  • Ask for classroom objects and common office objects. 
  • Ask about personal objects. 
  • Exchange information about personal information: address, telephone numbers. 
  • Ask about and tell the time. 
  • Shop for food and groceries and deal with prices and money. 
  • Ask about place of some objects. 
  • Get and give directions about addresses and places. 
  • Ask about facilities and services in a hotel. 
  • Exchange information about different habits and daily routine actions and activities. 
  • Exchange information about jobs and working places. 
  • Offer food and help guests. 
  • Give excuses. 
  • Get services: in the restaurant, order food, taxis and train reservations. 
  • Read and write simple phrases while learning Arabic for beginners.

Grammar:

By the end of this Egyptian Arabic lessons for beginners course you will: 

  • Recognize and pronounce sun and moon letters.  
  • Use pronominal suffixes (subject pronouns and attached pronouns).  
  • Use interrogation to ask people about themselves, objects, places, time and prices. 
  • Use demonstrative to identify objects. 
  • Use prepositions to identify objects’ places.  
  • Use verb conjugation for daily routine verbs with first, second and third persons. 
  • Use nominal sentences and the negation of nominal sentences in Egyptian Arabic dialect.

30 – 40 class hours online 

Course Materials:

  • Kallimni Arabi – Published Book  2 –  Modules (1 – 5) 
  • Listening materials: AUC Press
  • The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”. 
  • Extra authentic materials. 

Arabic Lessons for Beginners Outcomes:

Oral Skills:

After doing these Arabic lessons for beginners and by the end of this course you will be able to: 

  • Exchange information about nationalities and city of origin. 
  • Read maps to specify country locations. 
  • Ask about telephone numbers, addresses, age, family income and salaries. 
  • Introduce one’s job; ask about occupations and places of work. 
  • Ask about family members and their jobs. 
  • Ask about places and directions in detail. 
  • Express distance and duration. 
  • Ask about detailed address and get to know the area around. 
  • Talk about daily and weekend routine and habits. 
  • Order drinks in the coffee shop. 
  • Shop for clothes and use money language. 
  • Talk about future plans. 
  • Exchange information about apartments and rooms.  

Grammar:

By the end of this Egyptian Arabic for beginners course you will: 

  • Use different articles with singular, dual and plural nouns in Egyptian Arabic dialect.
  • Use pronominal suffixes and possessive pronouns to identify objects and family members.  
  • Use attached pronouns with prepositions.   
  • Use singular, dual, plural nouns and articles. 
  • Use possessive articles. 
  • Use verb conjugation for daily routine verbs with all the persons. 
  • Use basic imperatives and pronominal suffixes for ordering and giving instructions. 
  • Use active participle and subjunctive (عايز + فعل مضارع) for future planning (affirmative and negative). 
Elementary

30 – 40 class hours online 

Course Materials:

  • Kallimni Arabi – Published Book 2 —  Modules (6-10) 
  • Listening materials: AUC Press
  • The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”. 
  • Extra authentic materials. 

Learning Outcomes:

Oral Skills:

After finishing these Arabic lessons for beginners, elementary students and by the end of this course you will be able to: 

  • Talk about the weather and seasons of the year.  
  • Make suggestions or plans, offers and invitation. 
  • Talk about hobbies.
  • Talk about the frequency of doing things. 
  • Describe people and their physical appearance. 
  • Make requests and give instructions in Egyptian Arabic dialect. 
  • Warn, give advice and remind. 
  • Speak about future plan. 
  • Exchange information about past events and past situations.  

Grammar:

By the end of this Egyptian Arabic for beginners  course you will: 

  • Use (ياللا / تيجي + فعل مضارع) to propose projects and plans. 
  • Use auxiliary verbs + subjunctive to express like and dislike things    (بيحب + فعل مضارع). 
  • Use imperfect verbs (habits) and adverbs of time and frequency to express how often you do things (دايما – غالبا – أحيانا – خالص ……).  
  • Use “should and ought to” + subjunctive (affirmative and negative) to express necessities and obligations (لازم / المفروض + فعل مضارع). 
  • Use imperative verb form to give orders to employee, taxi drivers, workers …..etc. 
  • Use “Can and Able and know” + subjunctive to talk about activities and hobbies (يقدر / يعرف + فعل مضارع).  
  • Use future tense to express future plans. 
  • Use past tense to express past events and situations. 

 30 – 40 class hours online 

Course Materials:

  • Kallimni Arabi Aktar- Published Book3, Modules 1 – 4  
  • Listening materials: AUC Press
  • The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”. 
  • Extra authentic materials. 

Learning Outcomes:

Oral Skills: 

After finishing these Arabic lessons for beginners, elementary students and by the end of this course you will be able to: 

  • Exchange information about biographies.  
  • Exchange information about past personal experiences. 
  • Initiate a conversation with a new friend. 
  • Describe scenes, cities & places. 
  • Compare between different work places, living places.
  • Compare between different occasions.
  • Exchange information about habits in the past (used to do..).

Grammar: 

By the end of this  Egyptian Arabic for beginners course you will: 

  • Use connectors to produce compound sentences. 
  • Use the past tense- conjugated with all pronouns in expressing past events. 
  • Use active participles to describe status. 
  • Use possessive forms. 
  • Use adverbs of place. 
  • Use Noun- Adjective agreement correctly. 
  • Use comparatives & superlatives. 
  • Use Nominal sentences in the past. 
  • Use past continuous tense.

 30 – 40 class hours online 

Course Materials 

  • Kallimni Arabi Aktar- Published Book3 —  Modules (5-8) 
  •  Listening materials: AUC Press
  • The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”. 
  • Extra authentic materials. 

Learning Outcomes:

Oral Skills:

After finishing these Arabic lessons for beginners, elementary students and by the end of this course you will be able to: 

  • Talk about changes between past and present in cities, lifestyle, habits and traditions.  
  • Offer, accept, turn down, or postpone invitations. 
  • Report what people said. 
  • Ask for help with specific tasks.
  • Exchange news and stories.
  • Make complaints and apologies.
  • Identify problems and suggest solutions.
  • Exchange information about accomplishments.

Grammar:

By the end of this Egyptian Arabic for beginners course you will: 

  • Use Nominal and verbal sentences to compare between past and present.
  • Use reported speech.
  • Use multiple attached pronouns (ساعدني – صلح لي– صلحهالي).
  • Use active participle to express future (رايح – مسافر – راجع). 
  • Use (ما)  in different function eg. negation, affirmation, and prohibition. 
  • Use (لسه) by meaning of “ Still” and “Not yet” to talk about accomplishment, events and recent past in Egyptian Arabic dialect.
Intermediate Arabic

30 – 40 class hours online 

Course Materials: 

  • Kallimni Arabi Mazboot- Published Book 4 —  Modules (1 -4)  
  • Listening materials: AUC Press
  • The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”. 
  • Extra authentic materials. 

Learning Outcomes:

Oral Skills: 

by the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect  course you will be able to: 

  • Describe customs and festivals in different countries. 
  • Talk about hobbies and activities during vacations. 
  • Express positive and negative opinions. 
  • Describe emotions. 
  • Narrate folktales. 
  • Give reasons and justifications. 
  • Ask and talk about personal experience. 
  • Talk about history and historical events. 
  • Talk about future plans and make hypotheses.
  • Talk about hopes and wishes using idiomatic expressions نفسي أحضر الحفلة دي، ياريتني اقدر اروح معاكم .  

Grammar:

By the end of this  Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will: 

  • Use Masdar to express preference in different situations باحب الصيد؛ بيعجبني الخروج بدري،  
  • Use conjunctions and connectors to: describe a sequence of events, narrate stories, express cause and effect or express time periods.  
  • Use appropriate tense shifting when talking about personal experiences and narrating events كنت متأكد إنه غالي بس قلت لنفسي هاركب برضه عشان صاحبي هيكون سبقني.
  • Use conditional sentences to express probabilities in the future. 

 

30 – 40 class hours online 

Course Materials:

  • Kallimni Arabi Mazboot- Published Book 4- Modules (5-8) 
  • Listening materials: AUC Press
  • The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”. 
  • Extra authentic materials. 

Learning Outcomes:

Oral Skills:

by the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will be able to: 

  • Narrate Personal incidents and experiences. 
  • Express opinions for different experiences. 
  • Express regrets about past events using idiomatic expressions (ياريتني ماكنت سمعت كلامك).
  • Give advices and suggestions. 
  • Ask and talk about past events that still taking place or actions happening in the present and continue in the future. 
  • Talk about jobs, the skills and the personal characteristic suitable to them. 
  • Express opinions about different work life experiences.  

Grammar:

By the end of Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will: 

  • Use past perfect to express relations between events on the timeline على بال مراتي مابتاخد دش باكون حضرت الفطار.
  • Use connectors e.g. (while / until / as soon as / instead of) to express relations between events on the timeline لغاية ماييجي القطر باكون شربت فنجان القهوة بتاعي.
  • Use different tenses to express relations between events on the timeline  وانا سايق العربية العجلة نامت.
  • Use conditionals (لو) to express regret in the past. 
  • Use auxiliary verbs such as (بقى / فاضل) to talk about time frames and (ناوي) to express future plans فاضل لي شهرين واخلّص.
Upper-Intermediate

30 – 40 class hours online 

Course Materials:

  • Kallimni Arabi fi Kull Haaga- Published Book 5 – Modules (5 and 6) 
  • Listening materials: AUC Press
  • The teacher may use materials from other books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”. 
  • Extra authentic materials. 

Learning Outcomes:

Oral Skills: 

By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will be able to: 

  • Use idiomatic expressions to narrate stories (folklore or from real life) with tone. 
  • Report news events. 
  • Use appropriate register for reporting news and narrating stories. 
  • Discuss social issues of adolescents in different countries. 
  • Present social issues using language of statistics. 
  • Justify decisions based on pros and cons. 

Grammar: 

By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will: 

  • Use auxiliary verbs such as: (راح / قام / قعد / فضل + فعل مضارع من غير بـ )   ) and ( من غير بـ عمّال+ فعل مضارع ). 
  • Use the past perfect and negation of past perfect tenses in narration such as: ( كان بقى/ ماكنش بقالي).
  • Use the language of comparisons  لكن – في حين – بالمقارنة بـ – إنما – في حين – بخلاف – بالنسبة لـ.
  • Revise different tenses.

 

 30 – 40 class hours online 

Course Materials:

  • Kallimni Arabi fi Kull Haaga- Published Book 5 –  Modules ( 7 and 8 ) 
  • Authentic materials (Talk Shows and movies) 
  • Listening materials: AUC Press
  • The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”. 
  • Extra authentic materials. 

Learning Outcomes:

Oral Skills: 

By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will be able to: 

  • Describe personalities, personal traits and their effect on relationships. 
  • Describe and discuss families with regard to size, parent’s relations, values and rules. 
  • Talk about appropriate and inappropriate behaviors in different cultures. 
  • Demonstrate understanding of metaphors taken from common Egyptian proverbs. 
  • Presents and gives supported opinions about problems. 
  • Analyze reasons and extend statements to include further details. 
  • Discuss social issues of young people such as early marriage and divorce. 
  • Describe the changes and devolvement of own character. 
  • Discuss issues related to homesickness. 
  • Discuss issues related to Egyptian traditions.  
  • Understand extended conversations of multiple participants on abstract topics as talk shows. 
  • Understand the plot of Arabic films and identify relations between characters. 

Grammar: 

By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will: 

  • Use adjectival phrases to describe personal characteristics. 
  • Use auxiliary words e.g. (مسيره يوصل / زمانه وصل + different tenses). 
  • Use passive voice in present simple and continuous tenses to discuss issues. 
  • Use connectors to extend statements and include further details. 
  • Use reported speech in different tenses.  

30 – 40 class hours online 

Course Materials:

  • Kallimni Arabi fi Kull Haaga- Published Book 5 –  Modules (3 and 4 ) 
  • Authentic materials ( Talk Show and movies) 
  • Listening materials: AUC Press
  • The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”. 
  • Extra authentic materials.  

Learning Outcomes:

Oral Skills:

By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will be able to: 

  • Talk about travel and tourism. 
  • Discuss about different aspects of culture shock. 
  • Talk about common challenges in everyday life. 
  • Discuss issues and give supported opinions. 
  • Discuss complaints and analyze the reasons. 

Grammar:

By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will: 

  • Use the perfect continuous tense. 
  • Use future continuous and perfect tenses هيكون لسّه + اسم فاعل / بـ + فعل مضارع 
  • Use connectors expressing exceptions and conditionals such as: إلا – ماعدا – غير – إلا إذا – حتّى إذا –  حتّى لو – حتّى و لو. 
  • Use connectors and modals with compound tenses such as: على الرغم من – بالرغم من – مع إن – برغم – رغم إن – رغم.
  • Use modals for advice  مش كان أحسن تعمل كذا؟.  

 

30 – 40 class hours online 

Course Materials:

  • Kallimni Arabi fi Kull Haaga- Published Book 5 –  Modules (1, 2 ) 
  • Authentic materials (newspapers, TV shows and movies, and audiovisuals) 
  • Listening materials: AUC Press
  • The teacher may use materials from other Arabic books: “Um El-Dunya”, “Kalam Gameel; and “Al-Kitab”. 
  • Extra authentic materials.  

Learning Outcomes:

Oral Skills:

By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will be able to: 

  • Discuss current issues of economy. 
  • Discuss issues of homeless children 
  • Discuss issues of sexual harassment. 
  • Present analysis of issues and support opinions. 
  • Compare traditions and customs in the Egyptian society to own culture. 
  • Talk about educational systems and innovations. 
  • Discuss issues of violence in the society. 

Grammar: 

By the end of this Egyptian Arabic dialect course you will: 

  • Use passive voice in describing status and developments الامتحان اتلغى ولازم يتعدل. 
  • Use verb (يبقى) as an auxiliary verb or as filler. 
  • Use connectors to extend statements and include further details. 

30 – 40 class hours online

Course Materials:

  • Authentic materials (TV shows and movies).

Advanced Online Arabic Lessons Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this  advanced Arabic course, you will be able to:

  • Understand the plot of Arabic movies and TV series that deal with topics of your interest.
  • Reflect on the story-line, character, and moral of movies and TV series.
  • Identify common expressions and idioms used in movies and TV shows that are used in certain registers in spoken Arabic.
  • Identify subtle cultural behaviors of characters and demonstrate an understanding of their significance.
  • Recognize the synonyms of lexicons and expressions of previously learned language items. 
  • Read stories, reports and articles written in Modern Standard Arabic and reflect on them in spoken dialect.

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