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Hi,
I plan to seek work in Dubai in the secont half of next year once I have completed some project managment and database management courses.
In the meantime I have decided to learn Arabic to the best of my ability and was wondering if there was a particular local dialect peculiar to Dubai or would I be best learning Modern Standard Arabic?
I have seen Eastern Arabic advertised as part of the Pimsleur programme and would like to know if this is the same as Modern Standard Arabic ?
Many thanks in Advance
Tim

eastern arabic? i know arabic and iv never heard of that lol

just stick to the standard arabic. standard arabic is whats spoken in dubai

hello kurdish,
I saw this advertised on Amazon


I shall follow your advise and stick with standard Arabic. Maybe after a few months I will be able to speak to my Morrocan barber here in the UK and ask him how I want my hair cutting!

I strongly recommend you below Arabic learing materials. You will enjoy them:

http://www.ask-ali.com/arabicphrases.asp?myStyle=Arabic

http://www.ask-ali.com/main.asp?myStyle=Arabic&pageID=461

http://www.ask-ali.com/eName2aName.asp

http://www.ask-ali.com/namemeaning.asp

They are entertaining also

many thanks. I shall work my way through these sites after work tonight.

Thanks mahmoodb. I'm gona have a good look through that site too.

Cheers!

[quote="timm"]hello kurdish,
I saw this advertised on Amazon


I shall follow your advise and stick with standard Arabic. Maybe after a few months I will be able to speak to my Morrocan barber here in the UK and ask him how I want my hair cutting!

Hey Timm,

Uhhmm Moroccan Barber is not arabic, it's Barber maybe your friend understands arabic too

Sorry,
A barber is a man who cuts hair and the man who cuts my hair is Morrocan. I wasn't refering to the Barbar people who live in Morroco.

apologies for the confusion.

Sorry about misunderstanding timm ... lol