Vocabulary lists are full of nouns. What makes you sound Egyptian is the small stuff between the nouns. Ten of them, with where they go in the sentence.
The fillers
is never mind. It fixes a spilled drink and a missed bus. It has a whole guide of its own in ma3lesh, khalaaS, tamaam.
is come on, let's go. It starts a trip and hurries a child.
- Come on, Karim!
khaaliS is at all. It goes with a negative: mish kwayyis khaaliS is not good at all.
'awi is very, and it goes after the word. 7elw 'awi, ghaali 'awi, badri 'awi.
- Six? That's really early!
ya3ni is I mean, like. Once you notice it you'll hear it every ten seconds.
- I'm from Egypt, I mean, I'm Egyptian.
The connectors
bass is only, or that's it. bass kida is that's all, the line that ends an order.
- The book isn't expensive, only twenty pounds.
Tab is OK then, well. It starts half of all replies. Tab, yalla. OK then, let's go.
ba'a is so, then. It leans on the word before it: yalla ba'a is come on then. It's the strangest of the ten and it has its own guide.
3ashaan is because, or for. 3ashaanak is for you, said to a man.
mafeesh is there isn't. mafeesh mushkila is no problem.
- Is there any bread? No, we're out.
Two at a time
Egyptians stack these. Tab ba'a, yalla ba'a, bass khalaaS. Don't try to learn the combinations. They arrive on their own once the ten are in your ear.