الراجل بيشتغل في البنك.

A common everyday pronunciation is:

er-ragel biyishtaghal fil-bank

A few helpful notes:

• الراجل is usually pronounced er-ragel, not al-ragel
• في البنك often sounds like fil-bank in connected speech
• Different textbooks may write the sounds differently in Latin letters, but this is the basic idea

Yes. In Egyptian Arabic, راجل is the normal everyday word for man or guy, and it corresponds to MSA رجل.

A learner may notice that:

• MSA: رجل
• Egyptian: راجل

The vowels are different, and the Egyptian form is the one you will normally hear in speech. Depending on context, راجل can also sometimes mean husband or even a real man.

Because in Egyptian Arabic, the letter ج is usually pronounced as a hard g sound, like the g in go.

So:

• راجل sounds like ragel
• not like rajel

This is one of the most noticeable differences between Egyptian Arabic and some other varieties of Arabic.

This is because of sun letters and moon letters.

• ر is a sun letter
• ب is a moon letter

With a sun letter, the l sound in ال is not pronounced, and the next consonant is doubled:

• الراجل → pronounced roughly er-ragel

With a moon letter, the l sound stays:

• البنك → pronounced el-bank

So the spelling keeps ال in both words, but the pronunciation changes.

Here, بيشتغل means works or is employed.

The base verb is اشتغل, which is a very common Egyptian verb for to work.

It can also mean other things in different contexts, such as:

• to function
• to operate
• to start working

But in this sentence, the meaning is clearly about a person having a job.

In Egyptian Arabic, بـ is a very common marker for the normal present tense.

So:

• بيشتغل = he works

This often gives a sense of:

• habitual action
• regular action
• general present

So the sentence is naturally understood as something like the man working there as a job, not just a one-time event.

Usually, بيشتغل means works in the general sense: it describes someone's job or regular activity.

So in this sentence, it most naturally suggests:

• he works at the bank
• he is employed there

It can sometimes refer to something happening now if the context makes that clear, but by itself it often sounds more like a general present than an immediate right now progressive.

في literally means in, but in everyday Arabic it is also commonly used where English would say at.

So:

• في البنك can mean in the bank
• and in this kind of sentence it is naturally understood as at the bank

This is very normal Arabic usage for places of work.

Because the noun is definite here: the bank.

Arabic adds the definite article directly to the noun, even if the noun is borrowed from another language.

So:

• بنك = a bank
• البنك = the bank

Since bank is a loanword in Arabic, it still behaves like a regular Arabic noun when it comes to the definite article.

Because in fast natural speech, في plus الـ often gets compressed.

So:

• في البنك
• is often pronounced something like fil-bank

This is very common in spoken Egyptian Arabic. The words are still separate in writing, but in speech they flow together.

Yes, absolutely. That is also very natural Egyptian Arabic.

• الراجل بيشتغل في البنك
• الراجل شغال في البنك

Both can be used to talk about the man's work. The version with شغال is extremely common in everyday speech and often sounds very natural for talking about someone's job or employment.

So if you hear either one, that is normal.