Harakaat الحركات العربية

The position of the Fatha is above the letter, it means the letters has an ( AA ) sound.

كَلت انهَاردة رز وفراخ - Kalt Enharda roz we ferakh - today I ate rice and chekin.
الجَو انهَاردَة حلو أوي - eggaw enharda helw awi - The weather today is lovely.
عَايزَة أشرَب قهوَة من فضلَك - `aiza ashrab `ahwa mn fadlak - I want to drink coffee please.
أنا عَايشَة في القَاهرَة - Ana `aysha felqahera - I live in Cairo.

The position of the Kasra is Under the letter, it means the letters has an ( EE) sound.

أنا بشتغل مدرِسة ألمانِي - Ana bashtaghal Modareset Almany - I work as a German teacher.
مِش بحِب أتفرج عالتِليفزيون كِتير - Mish baheb atfarag `attelefezion keteer - I don`t like watching TV alot.
صباح الخِير يا أمانِي - Sabah el kheer ya Amany - Good morning Amany.
أشوفِك بكرا إِن شاء الله - Ashofek Bokra Insha` allah - See you tomorrow (God`s willing).

The position of the Damma is above the letter, it means the letters has an ( OO) sound.

أنا بحب أكُل تٌفاح - Ana baheb `akol toffah - I like to eat apple.
الولد عندُه عربية لعبة - El walad `ando `arabeya le`ba - The boy has a toy car.
عندي شُغل بُكرا - `ande shoghl bokra - I have work tomorrow.
شعري لونُه بُني - Sha`ry lono bonne - My hair color is brown.

The posision of the shadda is above the letter, it means that we must stress on the letter, and the letter is repeated but in Arabic we don`t write two same letters behind each others in one word so we merge the two letters and put the shadda above it instead.
The sound of the letter depends on which Haraka comes with the Shadda.

بلعب كورة سلَّة - Bal`ab koret salla - I play basketball.
شغل النٌّور لو سمحت - Shaghal ennor law samaht - Turn the lights on please.
الشَّنطة الحمرا دي بتاعتي - Eshanta el hamra de bta`ty - This red bag is mine.
إقري من الكِّتاب - E`re mn ekketab - Read from the book.

The tanween comes in the 3 positions, we pronounce the regular sounds of Fatha, kasra and damma, but we add the sound ( N ) to it.
And it appears as two fatha or two damma above the letter or two kasra under the letter.
we don`t use ( Tanween ) very much in Egyptian dialect.

شكراً - Shokran - Thank you.
عفواً - `afwan - You are welcome.
فعلاً - Fe`lan - Indeed.
مثلاً - Masalan - For example.
جداً - Geddan - Very much.
أبداً - Abadan - Never

Sokoon mean that the letter is consonant, in Arabic the word never starts with a consonant letter.
We refer to it by a little circle above the letter ( ْ ).

خُدْ الكِتاب معاك - Khod ekketab ma`ak - Take the book with you.
عَنْدَك قَهْوة لو سَمَحْتْ؟ - `andak `ahwa law samaht? - do you hane coffe please?
معايا ألْف جِنيْه - Ma`aya `alf genee - I have a 1000 pounds.