بعد الشغل بدي اكل غدا مع صديقي.

A rough pronunciation is:

baʿd ish-shughul biddi aakol ghada maʿ sadiiʔi

A few notes:

• بعد = baʿd
• الشغل often sounds like ish-shughul or ish-shoghol, depending on region
• بدي = biddi = I want
• اكل here is understood as aakol / ākol
• غدا here is ghada = lunch
• صديقي is often pronounced sadiiʔi in many urban Levantine accents, because ق often becomes a glottal stop

You may also hear slightly different pronunciations depending on whether the speaker is Syrian, Lebanese, Jordanian, or Palestinian.

بدي means I want in Levantine Arabic.

It is one of the most common colloquial ways to express wanting:

• بدي آكل = I want to eat
• بدي روح = I want to go
• بدي شوف = I want to see

This is colloquial Levantine. In Modern Standard Arabic, you would more likely see:

• أريد أن آكل = I want to eat

So بدي is very natural in everyday speech.

In casual Arabic writing, especially online or in text messages, people often write colloquial words in a simplified way and leave out some spelling details.

So اكل here is meant as آكل / أاكل in pronunciation, meaning I eat / I will eat / I want to eat depending on context.

After بدي, it clearly means:

• بدي آكل = I want to eat

If you only saw أكل by itself in a more formal context, it could also mean he ate, so context matters a lot. In this sentence, the meaning is clear because of بدي before it.

Because Levantine Arabic does not usually need a separate word like English to in this structure.

You simply say:

• بدي آكل = I want eat literally, but naturally I want to eat
• بدي نام = I want to sleep
• بدي ادرس = I want to study

In Modern Standard Arabic, you often use أن:

• أريد أن آكل

But in everyday Levantine, أن is normally not used here.

Here it means lunch.

That can confuse learners because in Modern Standard Arabic:

• غدًا usually means tomorrow

But in Levantine everyday usage, غدا can represent the colloquial word for lunch, coming from غداء.

Context makes it clear here:

• بدي اكل غدا = I want to eat lunch

Also, in Levantine, people usually say بكرا for tomorrow, not غدًا. So in real conversation, غدا in this sentence is naturally understood as lunch.

الشغل is the everyday colloquial word for work in Levantine Arabic.

So:

• بعد الشغل = after work

By contrast, العمل sounds more formal or more like Modern Standard Arabic.

A learner should get used to this contrast:

• شغل = everyday spoken Levantine
• عمل = more formal / standard

Also, بعد الشغل is an idiomatic phrase. Even though it literally looks like after the work, it just means after work.

Because بدي already tells you the subject is I.

So:

• بدي = I want
• بدك = you want
• بده = he wants
• بدها = she wants

That means you do not need to add أنا unless you want emphasis.

For example:

• بعد الشغل بدي اكل غدا = After work I want to eat lunch
• أنا بعد الشغل بدي اكل غدا = I, after work, want to eat lunch
  This sounds more emphatic.

صديقي means my friend.

It is made of:

• صديق = friend
• -ي = my

So:

• صديقي = my friend
• صديقك = your friend
• صديقه = his friend

In many Levantine accents, the ق in صديق is not pronounced like a strong q sound. It is often pronounced as a glottal stop, so صديقي may sound like sadiiʔi.

Also, while صديقي is correct and understandable, in casual speech many people might also say:

• صاحبي
• رفيقي

depending on region and style.

Because meal words often appear without the definite article, just like in English.

Compare:

• I eat lunch
• not usually I eat the lunch unless you mean a specific lunch

So in Arabic:

• آكل غدا = eat lunch
• آكل العشا / آكل عشا can vary by dialect and style, but the bare noun is very common with meals

If you say الغدا, it can sound more specific:

• بدي آكل الغدا = I want to eat the lunch
  meaning a particular lunch, not just lunch in general.

It is understandable and acceptable, but many Levantine speakers would say something even more natural:

• بعد الشغل بدي أتغدّى مع صديقي

Here, أتغدّى means to have lunch or to eat lunch.

So:

• بدي اكل غدا = I want to eat lunch
• بدي أتغدّى = I want to have lunch

The second one often sounds more idiomatic in spoken Arabic.

Because Arabic often puts time expressions at the beginning very naturally.

So:

• بعد الشغل بدي اكل غدا مع صديقي = After work, I want to eat lunch with my friend

This is normal and natural. Arabic word order is flexible, and putting after work first sets the scene right away.

You could also move things around, but the original order sounds completely fine in everyday speech.