Ahmad Khodary
Ahmad Khodary is an Egyptian Arabic educator and creator of the 60-Day Egyptian Arabic Challenge — a structured program that takes complete beginners to confident A1-level speakers through a research-backed system developed over years of teaching. Ahmad has been teaching Egyptian Arabic since 2017 and is followed by tens of thousands of learners around the world for his practical, culturally grounded approach to speaking real Egyptian Arabic.
Top 10 Imperatives in Spoken Arabic
Welcome! Today, we will learn the most important imperative verbs in Egyptian Arabic. It is imperative that you know all of them! ? The first one is…
Egyptian Arabic as a Written Language
Ahmad tells us about the barriers of diglossia in the Arabic-speaking world and how Egyptian Arabic is gaining ground as a written language.
Egyptian Arabic Reading Practice: Saturated Fats May Affect Concentration
Practice reading Egyptian Arabic.
16 of the Most Common Conjunctions in Egyptian Arabic
Conjunctions are very important. We use them all the time in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. That’s why we will be learning 16 Egyptian Arabic conjunctions today. Conjunctions in Arabic are called…
The Word بِتاع in Egyptian Arabic
Welcome to my lesson on how to use a very important word in Egyptian Colloquial Arabic! First of all, the word بِتاع bitā3 is mainly used as a noun, which means it comes in three forms…
Learn Arabic with Ahmad
Hello, everyone! إزايكو، عاملين إيه؟
My name is Ahmad, from Egypt. I’ve been an online Arabic teacher since 2017. I started out teaching Fus-ha (and I still teach it).
As I was teaching Fus-ha, I was surprised to see that many students were learning it to be able to communicate with locals. The problem is that after a lot of them spend a lot of time, effort, and money learning it, they go to Egypt and they find out that people there are speaking something totally different—Egyptian Arabic.
There are only a few people out there that take Egyptian Arabic seriously and think of it as a language: most people think it’s just a ‘colloquial dialect’.
So even though there are fewer people who are interested in learning Egyptian Arabic than Fus-ha, I felt a responsibility that I should start doing that, and here I am!