Phrasebook & word of the day

1. Open "Sections" in the top menu and pick "Phrasebook".
2. On a desktop there is a shortcut — a narrow bookmark tab with a book icon on the left edge of the screen. It works from any page.
3. From your account — the "Thematic phrasebook" tile.

1. Pick a topic card — "Taxi & getting around" or "Pharmacy & health", for instance.
2. Inside you get a list of phrases: the Arabic script, the transcription and the translation.
3. Tap the speaker button on the left to hear the whole phrase, not word by word.
4. Scroll to the bottom: under the phrases sit the topic dialogues — short scenes with speakers. Every line has its own audio.
5. Found a phrase you need? Tap "+ Save word" on the right. It turns into "Saved ✓" and the phrase goes to your personal dictionary.

A tip: do not grind the list from top to bottom. Listen to the dialogue first, then come back to the phrases — that way they stick to a situation instead of floating on their own.

Search — type two characters or more: it looks through the Arabic, the transcription and the translation of the topics you have access to.

Vowel marks — the harakat switch. They help at the start; later you are better off without.

Aa / Ab — transcription in Cyrillic or Latin letters. Your choice is remembered and carries over to the video transcript.

We write it the way we teach it in class:

• A CAPITAL letter marks the stressed vowel: izzAyyak.
• A colon means a long sound.
• "aa" stands for ع, the throaty letter.
• An apostrophe in Egyptian replaces ق — people say "'addEh", not "kaddeh".

Phrases are read by the voice you picked in your account ("Playback voice" — female or male). It is the same voice for the whole topic: the "(to a man)" and "(to a woman)" notes are about who you are talking to, not about the speaker. The voice name sits next to the speaker button — tap it and a menu opens: a "Female / Male" switch on top, the voices below (Egyptian has two of each). Choose once and it applies to every phrase, here and elsewhere on the site.

The "+ Save word" button builds your personal dictionary, and it is one dictionary for the whole site: words from videos, from the translator, from books and phrases from here all live together.

1. Open "Word of the day" in the menu (the page itself is called "My day").
2. At the top you see how many words you saved today and how many came before.
3. "Play all" reads the whole list in one queue — handy while you are washing up or walking.
4. The full dictionary lives in your account, in the "My dictionary" section.

If you are signed in, the dictionary syncs: save on your phone, find it on your laptop.

The first three topics are fully open — their cards carry a "Free" badge. You still see the other topics, but locked: the text is not hidden by a trick, it simply is not sent to the page. Full access comes with any paid plan or any purchased course — the "See plans" and "Courses" buttons are right there.

Why can't search find a phrase I definitely saw? It is probably in a locked topic. Search only covers the topics you have access to.

Is everything in Egyptian? Yes, the whole phrasebook is Egyptian for now. For other dialects use the translator — it shows one word across every dialect on the list at once: nineteen of them counting Modern Standard Arabic, from Morocco to the Gulf.

I found a mistake in a translation or in the audio. Write to support. A native speaker is proofreading the phrases, and every report goes to them — that is what the note at the bottom of a topic is about.

What do I do with all the words I have collected? Go to "Trainers" → the "Words" tile (the page inside is called "My words"). The trainer builds questions from your own dictionary; it needs at least four saved words to start.

• Take one topic a week, not all of them. Fifty phrases is a lot.
• Listen out loud and repeat after the voice. A phrase learned in silence never makes it to your mouth.
• Save what you will actually say this week, not everything you see. The dictionary should be about your life.
• Drop by "Word of the day" in the evening — one minute, and the day ends on something you can see.