الشغل سهل.

A very common Levantine-style pronunciation is ish-sheghel sahel.

A few notes:

• الش at the start is usually pronounced ish-sh or esh-sh
• شغل is often heard as sheghel in Levantine
• سهل is often heard as sahel in everyday speech

So a rough stress pattern is:

• ish-SHE-ghel SA-hel

You may hear small regional differences, but that pronunciation will sound recognizably Levantine.

Because Arabic normally leaves out the present-tense to be in sentences like this.

So:

• الشغل سهل = The work is easy

There is no separate word for is in the present tense here.

This kind of sentence is called a nominal sentence. In Levantine and in Standard Arabic, this is completely normal.

Compare:

• الشغل سهل = The work is easy
• الشغل كان سهل = The work was easy

In the past, you do use a verb like كان.

Because ش is a sun letter.

When ال comes before a sun letter, the l sound of ال assimilates to the next consonant. So ال + شغل is not pronounced al-shughl. Instead, it becomes something like:

• ash-shughl in more formal/Standard-style pronunciation
• ish-sheghel or esh-sheghel in Levantine-style pronunciation

Important: the spelling usually stays الشغل, even though the pronunciation changes.

Because سهل here is the predicate, not an adjective directly attached to the noun.

In الشغل سهل, the structure is:

• الشغل = the topic / subject
• سهل = the description / predicate

So it means:

• The work is easy

But if you said:

• الشغل السهل

that would mean:

• the easy work

So this is an important difference:

• الشغل سهل = The work is easy
• الشغل السهل = the easy work

It can mean several related things, depending on context:

• work
• the work
• the job
• sometimes even business or what someone is working on

In Arabic, especially in everyday speech, ال is often used where English might use no article at all.

So الشغل سهل could mean:

• The work is easy
• Work is easy

The exact meaning depends on the situation.

Because الشغل is treated as masculine singular, so the predicate matches it.

That gives you:

• الشغل سهل

If the noun were feminine, you would usually use سهلة instead. For example:

• الشغلة سهلة = The task/thing is easy

So this sentence is also useful for showing agreement:

• masculine singular → سهل
• feminine singular → سهلة

It is very natural in Levantine, and it will also be understood by Arabic speakers more generally.

However, الشغل feels more colloquial/everyday than the more formal Standard Arabic word:

• العمل = a more formal word for work
• الشغل = a very common everyday word in Levantine

So:

• الشغل سهل sounds natural and colloquial
• العمل سهل sounds more formal / Standard Arabic

In Levantine, two very common ways are:

• الشغل مش سهل
• الشغل مو سهل

Both mean:

• The work is not easy

Which one you hear more depends on the region:

• مش is very common in Palestinian/Jordanian and also widely understood
• مو is very common in Syrian/Lebanese speech

Notice that there is still no present-tense is.

That is a very common learner question. In normal Arabic writing, short vowels are usually not written, especially in everyday text and dialect writing.

So الشغل سهل does not show every vowel sound on the page. Native speakers know how to read it from:

• context
• experience
• dialect knowledge

For learners, pronunciation usually comes from:

• listening to native speakers
• dictionaries
• transliteration
• vowelled examples when available

This is why the same written word can be pronounced somewhat differently in different varieties of Arabic.