Arabic Simpsons: Season 2 Episode 15

Well I haven't done one of these in a while and it's amazing to me how much more I understand than I did only a few months ago. I think a lot of the time your brain just needs time to process the new information that you're giving it. I understood practically everything in this episode and it's really encouraging me to keep studying. Even if you don't think you're learning anything when studying a language, or feel that the language level is too advanced for you, your brain is still filing away the things you're hearing for later!



0:04 تعالو نكمل جدول اعملنا - Come, let's complete our plan (literally schedule of our works)

1:14 و نحمد ربنا على الطاقة النووية إلي ما سببتش ضرر مميت لحد دلوقتي على الاقل ببلدنا - And we praise our Lord for nuclear power that has never caused any deadly damage to this point, at least not in our country.

1:26 بابا, بدر اكل فصولية و انت بتدعي - Dad, Bart ate some beans while you were praying. (Literally, "Bart ate beans AND you were praying".)

1:27 و عرقت إزاي و إحنا مفروض نركز و إحنا بندعي - And how did you know? We're supposed to focus when we're praying. (Again they use "AND we're praying" to mean "while we're praying". This is how you express it even in MSA.)

1:56 ما نطقناش - We didn't utter a word. (This is hard to hear if you aren't used to Egyptian.)

تحب بتفسح العصفورة؟ 2:57 - Want to go out? (Can't really be translated literally. It has nothing to do with a bird.)

3:53 اخ غير شقيق و ضايع؟ ده اكيد فلم هندي - An illegitimate, lost brother? That's gotta be from an Indian movie.

4:13 مش ده برضه ملجأ - Is this still an orphanage? (ملجأ usually means refuge or safe place.)

4:30 هدي نفسك. دول مالهوش بعيد - Calm down. They aren't far.

4:59 دي بنسبة لي مسألة حياة و موت - This is a matter of life and death for me.

5:04 اخوك يمكن يكون في أي حتة, حتى ديترويت - Your brother could be anywhere, even in Detroit.

5:08 يمكن يبقا حتى في المريخ. على شان كده عيزك تضيقلي الإحتمالات ارجوك - And he might even be on Mars! That's why I want you to narrow down the possibilities for me. Please!

5:14 لو سألتني الاخوة الحقيقية ما تلقهاش في واشنطن. بتلاقيها في ديترويت - Well if you ask me you won't find your real brother in Washington. You'll find him in Detroit.

5:18 بتقول لو سألتني - You said "if you ask me".

7:00 إحنا وصلنا خلاص؟ - Are we there yet?

7:01 لسة شوية كمان - We've still got a little longer.

7:09 نرجع؟ بس يا مونا انا عيز اشوف اخوية - Go back? But Marge, I want to see my brother!

7:11 إفهم بقا يا عمرو ده تهديد و خلاص - Listen, Homer. It was only a threat. (In Egyptian they throw the word بقا around a lot. It's basically for emphasis.)

9:26 دي مراتي مونا و ده سعرها - This is my wife Marge and this is her hair.

9:59 اه! شامم ريح الطفل الرضيع - Ah! The smell of a baby. (رضيع means nursing)

10:55 ممكن تكتمو شوية؟ - Could you shut up a bit?

11:11 بص و انا بنط - Watch me jump!

11:14 خلاص! إن شاء الله تغرقو - Enough! I hope you drown!

12:17 ما عندناش احجام كبيرة - We don't have big sizes.

13:33 عيزة اركب سيسي - I want to ride a pony.

13:34 عيز اركب يخت كبير - I want to ride a big yacht.

13:54 اي فيدته ده - What's this for?

15:47 هتقفل السكة دلوقتي و هتتصل بي تاني و تقول عكس الكل إلي سمعت منك - You're going to hang up the phone now and call me again and say the opposite of everything I just heard from you.

16:12 و نظافته الشخصية حاجة فوق الوصف - And his personal hygiene is something indescribable! (in a good way)

17:38 بطريق - penguin

18:22 و اخيرا إتحقق الحلم - And at last the dream has been realized

18:26 نقدم السيارة المصممة للرجل العادي - We present the car designed for the common man

18:38 البشع دي يطلع ثمنه كم؟ - How much is this ugly thing going to cost?

19:11 حاسس بشعور بذنب - I feel guilty

Arabic Simpsons: Season 3 Episode 21

00:00 ممكن تطفي مسيقى الحجرة شوية؟ - Can you turn down the rock music a little?

00:03 ليه؟ مش أحنا برضه في العصر الحجري؟ - Why? Aren't we still in the stone age?

1:38 أنت نسيت اول المبدين من تعليمات بوذا - You forgot the first of the 2 principles of the teachings of Buddah.

2:27 اكبر قطة في الدنيا الواسع - The biggest cat in the wide world.

2:29 مهرج - clown

3:20 التخطيط للإنتقام - planning revenge

6:01 الرجل ده نصاب - That guy is a crook.

7:38 كواليس - curtains

8:29 اكيل - someone who likes to eat a lot

9:39 مسلسل مكايفر هيفتني - I'll miss the McGyver series (literally McGyver will pass me by)

10:06 عبقري - genius

12:44 قررت بطل التدخين - I decided to quit smoking

12:47 ما عدا بعد الاكل و بعد مكايفر - Except after eating and after McGyver

13:05 انا حطيت مسدسي فين؟ - Where did I put my pistol?

13:17 هموت من الغيرة - I will die from jealousy.

13:33 دبحة - a slaughter

14:29 الحطب الجاف - the dry firewood

15:09 إسباني معناها هاموتك بسرع - In Spanish it means I will kill you quickly.

15:29 ما تنسيش تموتي - Don't forget to die.

16:20 الضحية الوحيدة هنا هي السياح إللي بتزعجهم في الفندق ده - The only victim here are the tourists that you are annoying in this hotel.

18:05 ليه الأوضة فرقعت؟ - Why did the room explode?

18:06 هشرحلك انا دي - I will explain this to you.

18:34 ده ضحك علينا كلنا - He fooled all of us (ضحك على means to fool or trick)

Arabic Simpsons: Season 3 Episode 17

00:09 على مهلك الاحسن تتخانق (ala mahlak alahsan tatkhani2): Slow down or you'll choke (على مهلك means "slowly")

00:44 عندي سلاح سري جداً (andi silaah sirri gidan): I have a very secret weapon

1:10 ما لهاش زي (ma lahaash zay): there's nothing like it

1:39 إبتديت أصنع أعظم مضرب في العالم (ibtadayt asna3 a3zam madrab fi al3aalam): I began to make the greatest bat in the world

2:01 قشطة (ishta): literally means "cream", but here it means something like "cool"

3:12 و أنا مضربي من نفس المحل برضه (wa ana madrabi min nefs almahal bardu): and my bat is from the same store too

4:48 الفريق بتاعي أنا هيقسر فريقك أنت زي عنقود العنب (alfaree2 bitaa3ee ana hayu2sur faree2ak enta zay 3an2ood al 3inab): My team will crush your team like a cluster of grapes

4:59 مليون لحلوح ما يلحلحوش الرهان (milyoon lahlooh ma ylahlahoosh al rahaan): A million guinea isn't good enough for the wager? (Ok, this one will take some explaining. لحلوح is another name for the Egyptian guinea. To لحلح something means to make it active or in effect. So, literally it says "A million guinea doesn't make the wager?".)

5:04 ما كنتش مركز معاك. أنا فاكرك هتبدأ بمبلغ اقل (ma kuntish murakkiz maayak. ana faakarak hatabda bi mablag a2a2l): I wasn't focusing with you. I thought you would start with a smaller amount.

6:42 يتفرج على 3 تلفزيونات دول سوى (yatfarrag ala thalath telivizionaat dol sawa): and watch those 3 TVs at the same time (دول means "those" and سوى means "together")

6:49 عرض مغري عشانك (ard mughree ashaanak): a tempting offer for you

7:54 بتلعب وينج يمين (bitalab wing yeemeen): do you play right wing (I'm guessing they mean right field. They don't play a whole lot of baseball in the middle east lol)

9:48 مستحيل ما حدش يقدر يبذل أكثر من مية في المية. بالمنطق أكثر من كده ما ينفعش (mustaheel ma hadish yi2dar yibzil akthar min mia fi al mia. bil muntiq akthar min kida ma yanfash): Impossible. No one can exert more than 100% effort. Logically more than that doesn't work. (بذل جهود means to exert effort. The hypnotist said "your effort will be 110%". ما ينفعش means "it's no use" or "it's no benefit")

9:56 همسكها (hamsikha): I'll catch it

10:37 إخترني (ikhtarnee): choose me

11:21 دلوقت قبل ما نعرف تشكيل الفريق احب اقول لإلي اساميهم مش في القائمة انهم خيبوا املي فيهم (dilwa2ti abl ma narif tashkeel al faree2 aheb a2ool li illi asaameehum mish fi al qayma annahum khayboo amali fihum): Now, before we know the formation of the team, I want to say to those whose names aren't on the list that they have disappointed me. (literally "they have dashed my hope in them")

11:28 في حاجة نقصاهم إسمها الحماس (fi haga na2saahum ismaha al hamaas): There's something they lack. It's called zeal.

12:23 طلع الرخصة بالراحة (tala3 al rukhsa bi al raaha): get out your license, slowly

12:49 حاول ترفع ايدك (hawil tarfa3 iydak): Try to raise your hand.

13:37 ما تخافيش خالص هانقذ قطتك (ma tkhafeesh kaalis hanqiz utatik): Don't be scared a bit! I'll save your cat.

16:18 إستنى أنت (istana enta): wait

16:19 الرجل إلي بيلعب في مكانك موجود (al ragal ili biyal3ab fi makanak mawgood): The man that plays your position is here.

16:23 دكة (dikka): bench

16:31 برا (barra): out

16:41 دول لاعيبة محترفين (dol laa3eeba muhtarifeen): those are professional players

16:43 متعودين على الكلام ده (muta3awwideen 3ala al kalaam da): they're used to that (kind of) talk

16:44 مش بيأثر فيهم أبداً (mish bi yua2thar fee hum abadan): it won't affect them at all

16:50 معايا سوداني (ma3aaya sudani): I've got peanuts (فول سوداني is the long way to say it. Literally Sudanese bean.)

17:00 دليك لي مخي (daleek lee mukhee): massage my brain for me

17:20 قولولي لمل بابا كون ترتفع معنوياته (ooloolee limma baba koon tartafa3 ma3naweeaatu): tell me when dad is in better spirits

17:26 هنقولك (han2oolik): we'll tell you

18:11 كسكتة (kaskita): cap

Arabic Simpsons: Season 3 Episode 16

00:04 انت قلت عايز تعيش في عالم ما فيه زنك (enta 2ulta 3aayiz ta3eesh fi 3aalam ma fiu zinc): You said you wanted to live in a world without zinc.

00:36 إرجعلي (irga3lee): return to me

1:06 ممكن نتكلم عن النحاس (mumkin natkallim 3an al nu7aas): Maybe we can talk about copper

1:19 خربش (kharbish): scratch

1:28 برضه ما كسبناش (bardu ma kasibnaash): I still haven't won.

2:14 بالي طويل قوي (baali 6aweel 2awee): I'm very patient (literally "my mind is very long)

3:29 متطوع (muta6awi3): volunteer

3:41 ما تتحركش احسن تتعور (ma tat7arraksh a7san tat3wwar): Don't move unless you want to lose an eye. (the root عور means to lose an eye. أعور means cyclops)

5:49 لو كنت بمكاني و أنا مكانك هترجعلي اليويو (lo kunta bi makaani wa ana makaanak kataragga3li al yoyo): If you were in my place and I was in your place would you give me back the yo-yo?

6:11 بس كنت متوقعة شكلك يطلع زي الصورة (bess kuntu mutawaqqa3a sheklak ya6la3 zay al soora): I was just expecting you to look like the picture (literally يطلع زي الصورة here can mean "to turn out like the picture")

6:28 البلاعة (al ballaa3a): the drain/sink (It can mean both. The root بلع means to swallow, so literally it is "the swallower")

7:27 الكلاب بتحب بتقعد برا (al kilaab bit7eb bita23ad barra): Dogs like it outside (literally "dogs like to sit outside")

8:42 مش عايز خضار مزفت (mish 3aayiz khudaar muzaffit): I don't want any shitty vegetables (زفت literally means asphalt, but it is also used as a curse word. You can say صباح الزفت instead of صباح الخير when you're having a bad morning.)

9:15 شتيمة (shateema): curse word (also means insult)

10:42 قلبي وقف لما شفت صورتك (albi wi2if limma shufti soortik): My heart stopped when I saw your picture.

11:02 الفقراء المساكين (al fu2araa al masaakeen): the poor poor people (the first poor is like pitiful)

11:50 شنبك (shanabak): your moustache

13:33 برطمان (bar6amaan): a jar

14:48 حاسس اني مسؤول عن إلة حصل (Hasis anni mas2ool 3an illa Hasal): I feel that I'm responsible for what happened

15:14 الكلب هيدخل فيها إزاي يعني (al kelb hayidkhul fiha izzay ya3ni): How is the dog going to enter?

16:34 عصير (aseer): juice (they changed all the beer to juice when they translated it lol)

17:20 جواب وداع (gawaab widaa3): a farewell response

17:44 ما يفرقش معاها شكله خالص (ma yafri2sh m3aha sheklu khalis): It makes no difference to her at all what he looks like

17:46 حتى لو تمساح اكل وشه (Hata lo timsaaH akal wishu): even if a gator ate his face

18:20 مع حب إلة هيدوم عبر العصور (ma3 Hob ila hayadoom 3abr al 3asoor): with a love that will last throughout the ages

Arabic Simpsons: Season 3 Episode 9

00:38 شاهد قبر (shahid 2abr): tomb stone

00:50 الحل الوحيد اننا نرميها في الزبالة (al 7al al wa7eed annana narmeeha fi al zibaala): The only solution is that we throw it in the garbage

00:56 هيتهيألك انه مات إمبارح (hayatheya2lek anu maat imbaari7): It will seem to you that he died yesterday

1:09 شنيور (shinyoor): a drill

1:10 تلاقيه في الجراج (tila2ee fi al garage): find it in the garage

2:27 إنتهاء الصلاحية (intihaa2 a9alaa7eeya): expiration date

2:43 الكوافير (kawaafayr): hairdresser

2:53 إيه أسرع و أرخص و أسهل طريقة لانبسط فيها (eih asra3 wa arkha9 wa ashal 6aree2a linbasa6 fi ha): What's the fastest and cheapest and easiest way for you to be happy?

3:41 كل حاجة هتمشي زي الفل (kuli 7aaga hatimshee zay al ful): Everything is going to be great ("zay al ful" literally means "like the jasmine flower")

4:17 تحب بتأجر الشريط ده (t7eb bita2gar al sharee6 da): Do you want to rent that tape?

4:20 ليه؟ خلاص شفت احلى جز (shuft a7la guz): Why? I already saw the best part.

5:08 قفزاته رشيقة لكن قوية كالمحارب (qafazaatu rasheeqa laakin qaweeya kal mu7aarib): His jumps are elegant but he is strong like a warrior (lol)

6:48 و اصلع كمان (wa a9la3 kamaan): and bald too!

8:57 هأشترك وياك (hashtirik wayaak): I will participate with you

9:06 رف البهارات (raf al bahaaraat): spice rack

9:09 و عش البغبغان (wa 3ish al baghbaghaan): and a bird house ("3ish" means "nest" and "baghbaghaan" means parrots, but they showed a picture of a bird house so that how I translated it) Here's a Haifa Wehbe song called انا عندي بغبغان.

9:12 و المراجيح (wa al maraagee7): and the swingset

9:17 إيه صوت ده (eih 9oot da): What's the sound?

12:44 جبس (gibs): Literally "gypsum", but here it means "a cast"

13:06 زي ما انت شايف قدامك (zay ma enta shaayif 2addamak): like you see in front of you

15:11 بابا مش هتيجي (baba mish hateegee): Dad, you're not going to come?

15:18 انا سقعتلك البرنيطة في الثلاجة (ana sa2a3tilak al burnay6a fi al thallaga): I got your hat cold for you in the fridge.

18:43 أنت سواق جامد (enta sawwa2 gaamid): You are an amazing driver

I hope these episodes are helping. They are sure helping me. When I have to listen to a phrase several times to know exactly what they're saying it definitely sharpens my ear.

Arabic Simpsons: Season 3 Episode 5

1:35 ما عزمتنيش (ma 3azimtineesh): you didn't invite me

5:11 ما فيش بدلة لنائب المدير (ma feesh badla li na2ib al mudeer): there's no suit for the assistant manager

5:47 مين كان يصدق ان المفاعلات معقدة للدرجة دي (meen kaan yusadi2 an al mufa3ilaat mu3a2ada lildaraga dee): who would have thought that reactors were so complicated

6:50 إكتمي (iktimee): shut up (fem.)

8:24 هاشوفك مرة ثانية (hashoofak mara thanya): Will I see you again?

8:25 طبعاً في الكارثة الجاية (Tab3an fi al karitha al gaaya): Sure, during the next crisis

9:31 تأثيرك سيء عليَ (tatheerak sayi2 3alaya): you're a bad influence on me

9:56 أنت انقذت حياتنا (enta an2azta 7ayatna): you saved our lives

10:19 فخذة ضان (fa7'dha daan): a thigh of sheep

10:35 هنعلقك على حائط الشرف (han3alla2ak 3ala 7a2iT asharaf): we will hang you on the wall of honor

13:01 أرجوك ما تكراهنيش (argook ma tikrahneesh): please don't hate me

13:15 مش هيعرف مين عمل كده (mish haya3raf meen 3amal kida): he won't know who did that

13:38 كلهم فقدوا حماسهم للشغل (kuluhum fa2adoo 7amasahum lilshu3'al): all of them have lost their zeal for the work

14:24 كسبت الجائزة الثانية في مسابقة الجمال (kasibt al ga2iza al thania fi musaaba2at al gamaal: I won second prize in a beauty contest

15:00 بتهيألي (bithaya2lee): it seems to me

15:18 أكلي زفت (aklee zift): eat shit (imperative form when said to a female)

16:04 كنت عارفة ان المنطق هترجع لعقلها (kunt 3aarifa an al mun6i2 hatarga3 li 3a2la): I knew that she'd come to her senses (literally that the logic would return to her)

17:54 منع سطوة على البنك بغير ما يقصد (man3a sa6wa 3ala al bank bi 3'eyr ma yu2sud): He prevented a bank robbery unintentionally

Arabic Simpsons: Season 3 Episode 1

I figured I could add a list of some of the words/phrases that are said in the episode. I don't understand every word in the episode, but I do get a lot of it.

0:05 بدر إصحى (badr iSHa): badr, wake up!

0:11 جرا ايه (garaa eih): What happened?

0:12 بابا جرا له حاجة (baba garaa loo Haga): Did something happen to dad?

0:13 كويس جداً (kwayis giddan): very good

0:20 هيبقى عندي ثمن سنين (hayib'a andee thaman sneen): I will be 8 years old

0:49 خد بالك من اختك بطة (khud baalak min ukhtak baTTa): Look after your sister baTTa

1:31 مين سرق قميسي (meen sara' 'ameesy): Who stole my shirt?

1:36 بمبي (bambi): pink

2:47 بمبي مسخسخ (bambi msakhsakh): light pink (msakhsakh also means "fainting")

3:52 إمليلي الإستمارة دي (imleelee al istimaara dee): Fill out this form for me

4:12 قطة ('uTa): cat

5:38 بص عندنا طريقة سهلة قوي (bos andana Taree'a sahla 'awee): look, we have a very easy way

6:39 زود الضغط على مشط الرجلة (zawwid aDaghT ala mishT al rigla): increase the preasure on the instep of your foot

6:49 عشان لمست (ashan lamast): because I wore

6:55 ترتر (tirtir): glitter

8:37 بجد (bi gad): for real

10:37 أرجوكم تعبرو عن مشاعركم بحرية (argookum taabaru an mashairkum bi Hurria): I want you all to express your feelings freely

18:11 يا ريت تعجبك الهدية (ya rait tagibik al hidaya): I hope you like the gift (يا ريت means "I hope" or "I wish")

19:35 كل الناس ضحكت في وشي (kul a nass DaHket fi wishi): All the people laughed in my face

Arabic Simpsons: Season 3 Episode 24

Here's an episode of The Simpsons in Egyptian Arabic. It's pretty hard to understand even if you know MSA to a decent degree, but I still believe that authentic language exposure is good for you. It gets you used to listening to the real language at full speed. There are also people who claim that they've learned a language entirely from watching a lot of TV in that language. I don't know if they're exaggerating or not, but I figure it's worth a try and at the very least it won't make your language ability worse.

I've got 16 episodes on my computer that I'm going to try to upload. I signed up to take the Egyptian DLPT on Feb 4 so I figure these will help my brain get used to the way the Egyptian dialect is spoken and maybe I'll get that 2 that I need to get some extra money every month. Enjoy the episode.