Speak Egyptian Arabic. Not textbook Arabic.
The dialect 100 million people actually use — every word recorded by an Egyptian voice, every verb conjugated, from your first word to a full day in Cairo.
- 1,789 human recordings
- No text-to-speech, ever
- Your first 3 lessons free
If you can’t hear it, you can’t say it
Every word in Mashi carries three lines — English, transliteration, and Arabic script — and a recording of an Egyptian actually saying it. Tap a word.
A whole sentence, the way it is actually said:
I want to order iced tea
ana ayiz atlob shay metaleg
أنا عايز أطلب شاي مثلج
Everyone teaches you Arabic nobody speaks
Modern Standard Arabic (Fus-ha) is the Arabic of newspapers, formal speeches, and nearly every Arabic course ever made. It is nobody’s mother tongue. You can study it for two years, land in Cairo, and not understand the taxi driver.
Egyptian Arabic (Ammiya) is what’s actually spoken — in homes, in cafés, in the films and music that made it the dialect the whole Arab world understands.
Mashi teaches Ammiya.
Only Ammiya.
ماشي
Egyptian for “okay / got it / that works” — one of the most-used words in the country, and the first thing you’ll understand in a real conversation.
Proof of substance, not popularity
Every figure on this page is counted from the app’s own database. We would rather show you the syllabus than a badge.
- 359 nouns
- 355 sentences
- 301 adjectives
- 175 verbs
- 74 themed items
175 verbs. 1,400 conjugated forms.
Every one with audio.
Most apps give you the dictionary form and leave you to guess the rest. Mashi teaches every verb across all eight pronouns — and the tense follows your journey up the river, so you meet one properly before the next.
- Ikont ayizكنت عايز
- you (f)konti ayzaكنتي عايزة
- shekanet ayzaكانت عايزة
+ 5 more pronouns, each with its own recording
Sail the Nile, one lesson at a time
A few quick questions, a free account, and a plan made from your answers.
Tell us why, pick a level
Travel, family, work, films or fun: your reason shapes the app’s wording. Then pick any of the four levels, True Beginner to Advanced. No test. Its first three lessons are free.
Get your plan
Choose your felucca and a daily goal: half a lesson, one, or two. Mashi shows how long your level should take, and My plan keeps count of the lessons left.
Work a lesson
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, sentences, themed sets — each shown as English, transliteration and Arabic, with a tap to hear it. Finish one and the next one opens.
Prove it in a quiz
A quiz at the end of every lesson, built from that lesson’s own words in seven formats — and everything you get wrong is saved for later. Try a real one below.
One river. Every lesson a stop on it.
Inside a level, the lessons sit beside a single continuous Nile — and your own felucca is on the water at the stop you have reached. Finish a lesson and the boat moves. Four levels, ten lessons each, with a quiz milestone at the end of every section.
Reading the river
Inside a level the lessons sit beside one continuous Nile. Your felucca is on the water at the stop you have reached, and it moves when you finish a lesson.
Most apps won’t show you their syllabus. Ours is on one page.
Every lesson ends in a real Cairo conversation
The words you just learned, said the way Egyptians actually say them: two people at a café, a market, a friend’s flat. A native voice on every line, the Arabic laid out right to left the way it is read, the transliteration under it, and English when you want it.
Play all, or line by line
Hear the whole exchange start to finish, or tap any line to hear it again. The line that is playing lights up, so you always know where you are.
Your turn
Pick a speaker and take their part. At each of your lines the app shows the English and waits for you to say it in Masri — then plays the native line so you can compare.
Dialogue practice
Three drills on every conversation: pick the right reply, pick what they meant, and drag the lines back into order. Short, and it is where the words finally stick.
A quiz at the end of every lesson
Seven question formats, built from that lesson’s own words. Answer tiles are Arabic and transliteration, so you are reading the script by the time you have finished Level 1.
Seven formats, not one
Standard and reverse, listen and choose, fill the blank, arrange the sentence, match the pairs, build the word — plus a mid-lesson checkpoint.
Wrong answers come back
Everything you miss is saved to Review Mistakes and resurfaced later, so you drill the words that are actually giving you trouble.
Three levels of check
A checkpoint inside the lesson, a quiz at the end of it, and a section quiz every three or four lessons. The pass mark is 80%.
Your turn. Try a real question.
How do you say food in Egyptian Arabic?
- Tap an answerFour Masri words, each with its transliteration.
- Press Check answerThe gold button at the bottom of the phone.
- See how you didChoose an answer.
How do you say…
Pick the Masri word
The parts you only miss once you’re there
Built for a patchy connection
Your free lessons’ audio is saved on the phone, and Pro can download any level. Progress made offline queues up and syncs when you’re back. Made for the metro and the flight in.
Speak & Translate
Type or say a sentence in English and get Egyptian Arabic back with transliteration — for the moment you’re standing in a shop and stuck. Save any phrase to My words. 15 a day free, 200 a day on Pro.
Review Mistakes
Every wrong answer is kept and resurfaced, so practice is spent on the words giving you trouble instead of the ones you already know.
XP, not gems or coins
A streak, a daily mission, weekly quests, and 29 badges — including Alexandria, Cairo, Giza and Luxor, one for each level you finish.
The Felucca Race
Each week your customised boat races your class — or everyone on your level if you’re solo. Top three promote; small groups never relegate anyone.
A plan that fits your week
Pick Casual, Regular or Serious — half a lesson, one or two a day. My plan shows the lessons left in your level, and your daily reminder says how many.
Word Rush and friends
Sixty seconds, as many words as you can, with a high score to beat; calm mode takes the clock away. Plus flashcards, a daily review, Say it back and dialogue practice, on the words you have learned.
Light or Night Nile
A full dark mode, with a night sky over the river. Choose Light, Dark or Automatic under Settings → Appearance.
Shown around once
The first time you open a screen, a few short tips point out what is on it. Want them again? Settings → Show me around again.
Ask anything. Learn as a family. Talk to your class.
Ask for any word or phrase
Type or say it in English and get Egyptian Arabic back with the transliteration. If the phrase is in our lessons, a teacher recording plays with it. Save anything to My words and it joins your practice.
Mashi Family
One plan gives Pro to up to six people, for far less than six separate plans. Everyone joins with a family code and keeps their own account, progress and streak — and the weekly ranking keeps the whole family sailing.
Class chat, kept safe
Students in a class chat with their teacher and each other. Phone numbers, emails and links are hidden automatically, the teacher can pin, remove or pause posting, and anyone can mute, report or block.
One code. Your whole class on the river.
Share your join code or invite link, approve the students who ask to join, and you have a roster. From there: set homework from any lesson, message the class, and see who is actually practising.
The teacher portal is part of the same app your students already have. And when a student you referred subscribes, you earn 10% of every payment they make — for as long as they stay.
Your first three lessons are free
Pick any level when you start — True Beginner to Advanced — and its first three lessons and their section quiz are yours for good. No card needed.
Free
Free
No card, no trial timer
- The first 3 lessons of the level you pick
- Native audio on every word you reach
- The dialogue in each of those lessons
- Quizzes, 2 practice sessions a day, streaks, badges, the race
- The other 37 lessons
Mashi Pro
Best value
$89.99 / year
Works out to $7.50 a month, billed once a year · or $14.99 a month · US prices · cancel anytime
- Every lesson, all four levels — the whole Nile
- 200 translations a day and offline audio for every level
- An extra month (yearly) or week (monthly) free with a teacher’s code
Prices shown in USD; your store shows your own currency before you confirm. Learning together? Mashi Family gives Pro to up to six people on one plan. Buying for a team, a school or a club? Organization plans.
Your first lessons are free. Sobek is waiting.
Mashi is live for iPhone, iPad and Android. Download it, answer a few quick questions, make a free account, and your first lesson starts straight away.