اختي بتتعلم سباحة في نادي قريب من البيت.

In Egyptian Arabic, informal writing often drops hamzas that would normally appear in Standard Arabic. So اختي is a very normal way to write أختي.

It means my sister, and in Egyptian it is commonly pronounced something like okhti.

A quick breakdown:

• أخت / اخت = sister
• -ي = my

So اختي literally means sister-my.

The ending -ي is the possessive suffix meaning my.

So:

• أخت / اخت = sister
• أختي / اختي = my sister

Arabic often shows possession by attaching a suffix directly to the noun, instead of using a separate word like my.

بتتعلم means she learns or she is learning, depending on context.

It breaks down roughly like this:

• بـ = present/habitual marker in Egyptian Arabic
• تـ = marks a she subject here
• تعلّم = the verb stem related to learn

So بتتعلم is the Egyptian Arabic present-tense form for she learns / she is learning.

You may also see it written as بتتعلّم with a shadda or with slightly different spelling, but the meaning is the same.

It can mean either one.

In Egyptian Arabic, the present form often covers both:

• she learns
• she is learning

The exact meaning depends on context.

So in a sentence like this, it could mean:

• she is currently learning swimming
• she learns swimming as an activity these days

Arabic does not always separate these two ideas as strictly as English does.

Because in Arabic, in sentences like this, you usually do not need a separate present-tense to be.

English says:

• My sister is learning...

Egyptian Arabic simply uses the present verb:

• اختي بتتعلم...

That already includes the idea of a present action, so no separate is is needed.

سباحة is a noun meaning swimming.

After بتتعلم (is learning / learns), Arabic often uses a verbal noun or activity noun:

• بتتعلم سباحة = she is learning swimming
• more naturally in English: she is learning to swim / learning swimming

This is very normal in Arabic. English often prefers to swim, but Arabic commonly uses the activity itself as a noun.

Because it is being used as a general skill or activity: swimming, not the swimming.

So:

• سباحة = swimming, as an activity/skill
• السباحة = the swimming

After a verb like learn, the indefinite form is very natural when talking about learning a skill in general.

في نادي means in/at a club or at some club, so it is indefinite.

في النادي would mean in/at the club, referring to a specific club already known from context.

So the sentence is talking about a nearby club, not necessarily one already identified by both speaker and listener.

قريب من البيت means near the house/home.

Here is the breakdown:

• قريب = near, close
• من = from
• البيت = the house / the home

Literally, it is something like close from the house, but the natural English meaning is near the house or near home.

This whole phrase describes نادي:

• نادي قريب من البيت = a club near the house/home

The word بيت literally means house, but in many contexts it also means home.

So:

• من البيت can mean from the house
• but very often the natural English translation is from home or near home

This is extremely common. Arabic often uses the house where English would simply say home.

Because it describes نادي, and نادي is a masculine singular noun.

In Arabic, adjectives usually match the noun they describe in gender and number.

So:

• نادي = masculine singular
• قريب = masculine singular

If the noun were feminine, the adjective would usually change too.

Yes, this word order is very natural in Egyptian Arabic.

The sentence starts with the subject:

• اختي بتتعلم... = My sister is learning...

This subject-first order is extremely common in spoken Egyptian Arabic.

A verb-first order is also possible in Arabic more generally, but in everyday Egyptian, starting with the subject often sounds very natural and conversational.