Re: Learning to Speak Arabic

Marc Adler wrote:
> Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
>
> > which evidently you did. so why not learn a colloquial?
>
> As far as I can tell, if you don't live in an Arab country (in which
> case you should learn the local dialect), Egyptian is the best option.
> That's what I'm going to do, once I've gotten enough MSA under my belt.
>
> I just hope there are good textbooks of Egyptian dialect...
>

AFAIK Routledge's Colloquial series has several Arabic colloquials,
both Egyptian and Gulf. There is even a textbook of colloquial Egyptian
Arabic for Finnish speakers, so I am quite positive there must be good
ones for English speakers too.