How many people understand Egyptian Arabic?

The Egyptian Arabic dialect is spoken by a total of 68 million people around the world, making it the 26th most-spoken language according to the Ethnologue.

How can I improve my Arabic accent?

5 Ways To Improve Your Arabic Speaking Skills

1. Read out loud. If you’re listening to a lesson and reading along, read out loud.
2. Prepare things to say ahead of time.
3. Use shadowing (repeat the dialogues as you hear them).
4. Review again and again.
5. DON’T BE AFRAID TO MAKE MISTAKES!

Should you learn MSA?

Would it be beneficial? Sure. If you actually learn it, you will know a language and that’s never bad. You will probably find people who say it’s a good idea to start with MSA and other people who will say it’s a waste of time and the dialects are where it’s at.

Should I learn Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)?

Probably one of the most frequent comments I’ve received about learning Arabic, usually from people in Arabic speaking countries that are not Egypt, or from elitist academics, all of whom ignored my travel-in-Egypt focus, has been “You should be learning Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)! It’s much better than a dialect!”

Is it better to learn MSA or a dialect?

It’s much better than a dialect!” Now that I’m actually using what I spent months preparing for, in the country itself, I can confirm that learning a dialect is far superior to learning MSA if you plan to speak the language.

Do most people in Arabic speaking countries not understand Modern Standard Arabic?

Even the locals (a vast majority of them) do not speak it. They do indeed understand it, but you’d have to seriously and unrealistically restrict your interactions if you wanted a reply in MSA. Let me say that again because it bears repeating: Most people in Arabic speaking countries do NOT speak Modern Standard Arabic.

What is the grammar of MSA?

In MSA you add an -u to subjects of sentences, an -i if it’s affected by some prepositions and so on. (Latin also has such grammatical cases, whereas modern Romance languages pretty much never do.) So in MSA you have to constantly think whether a word is the subject, the object, or acted on by a preposition, or you will say it wrong.