The Little Prince
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Today's episode is another collaboration, and this time I was delighted to team up with Hector Fahmy, a fellow "Masri" enthusiast who runs the العالم بالمصري Facebook page, which aims to bring the world to the Egyptian reader (so you could say, the reverse of the direction Bilmasri operates in!) by translating a variety of content -texts, music etc.- into Masri. Hector is in the process of translating a number of literary works as well, and he has already published a Masri version of Le Petit Prince/ The Little Prince - الأمير الصغير, and so of course I jumped at the opportunity to have a Bilmasri episode featuring an extract from this delightful little book. Hector kindly agreed to cooperate and has provided his reading of the small chapters 2 and 3 (with me imposing myself on the role of the little prince! :) ) A Kindle version of الأمير الصغيّر will be available very soon so watch this space! In the overview below, I put the Masri version alongside the English translation. Obviously, Hector translated from the French original, but it made more sense to use the English version here instead. After the reading, I say a little something about the words highlighted in yellow below. I hope you enjoy the episode! As usual, feedback, comments and questions are very welcome. Download here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1obj0vu_NxQEX6eKMxkdkaaTUqlcil5TL/view
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