Learning Arabic.

@Lore2009 (7378)
United States
January 12, 2011 9:20pm CST
I went to the library and collected a few books and cds on learning Arabic. When I got home, I noticed that I got the Egyptian Arabic cd. I know that in different regions Arabic is different from each other, but I wondered if anyone knows which is understandable by all Arabic speakers? Which is the standard one?
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@hushi22 (4928)
13 Jan 11
learning arabic? i think that is pretty tough. i tried to learn it but there's just no way for me to understand it. hehehe.
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
16 Jan 11
I'm pretty excited about it.. I think I'll do good.
@singup (666)
• Malaysia
13 Jan 11
Lore2009 egyption arabic is good to learn for this reason" most of arabic musican , movies ,songs are made by egyption sling which mean this slang is most famouse all arabic world but for begginers i think you should learn arabic "fasha" i mean orginal arabic which grammaticly more than egyption slang. by the way i was waiting for a message from you LOre2009 to learn you arabic by i didn't recive it yet :) have a nice day
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
16 Jan 11
You mean like the original formal Arabic is what you recommend me learning first? Yeah, I haven't sent you a message yet, since I'm barely learning the alphabet. But I did listen to the CD and I've learn: ingilisi, aarabi, ameriki, swaya, aana, inti, inta, etc.
• United States
13 Jan 11
I am also attempting to learn arabic so good luck to you as well! From what I understand classical/formal arabic is understandable in all arabic speaking countries however very few actually speak that way. It really all depends what you're using your arabic for, but egyptian arabic is pretty well understood and a lot of music comes from there. If you were to speak to someone with egyptian arabic with someone from Jordan that person will understand you but know that you have an egyptian accent. It is like how american english and british english is about the same except some slang words are used differently. So I would reccomend staying with egyptian arabic to begin with and if you find yourself becoming really great than learn other dialects.
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
16 Jan 11
Thanks for the great tip! Good luck to you too... how long have you been learning Arabic? I just barely started. All the other languages I've learned are written in Roman script so I never had to worry about learning any new writing style so, this will all be a new experience for me and I'm excited about that.