Learning Arabic

If the point is to speak and understand dialect so that I can actually communicate with people why not just go straight into it?
I am also learning Standard but just reading mostly. desu after learning dialect , the standard doesn't sound that different except for all the diacritics.

كيف تعلمتها وليش؟

Shami is a good choice it's easy on the ear and universally understood, classier than some other choices too.

.بالمدرسة لاني ساكن قريب من ناس عربية و بحب الثقافة

ما شاء الله كويسة عربيتك
انت بمتشغان؟

They speak a weird ugly dialect no one likes or understand anyway.

لا انا بكاليفورنيا. اجى كتير سوريين هون بعد الحرب الاهلية و عشان هيك عندي كتير رفقات سوريين وكمان في مطاعم لبنانية كتير.

that's exactly the reason, you can communicate exclusively with standard arabic with almost every arab speaking person. In fact that's how it happens most of the time between arab speaking natives from far away countries and different dialects, we just switch to standard arabic for words that we know are hard to understand for the other party and its a perfect system for everyone involved. No arab speaking native learns a specific dialect in order to communicate with others, instead we learn standard arabic in school and go on from there. I can guarante you that almost every arab speaking native is able to understand you and communicate with you in standard arabic.
So the advantage lies in the fact that you can target all arabic speaking persons with just one variation of the language instead of increasing your learning time in order to target a specific dialect

تحب الاكل اللبناني؟

>الشامية
based
ليش اخترت هاي اللهجة و مش اللهجة المصرية مثلا

Now I understand your point. You're right but as of now I am only focusing on the dialect of people i interact with daily. Perhaps if I travel to the Arab world I will work on my standard more beforehand.

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if that's the case than I guess you have a reason to learn a specific dialect, however keep this idea in mind in the future

نعم وكمان بحب كنافة نابلسية

ما بحب اللهجة المصرية كتير. اللهجة الشامية حلوة وفي بلدان مختلفين الي يستخدمها كمان .

شكرا للنصيحة يا يستاز

What's the Saudi dialect like?

استاز*

Well best of luck to you user. I'm impressed you could hold a conversation like this and in writing after just 2 years of learning.

likewise your English is native tier.
شكرا للدردش

We have different ones. The east (mine) is similar to the rest of the gulf, hijazi is closer to Egyptian to my ears, and najdi is in my opinion rough and ugly, my personal opinion.

ابداً زرت شي بلد شامي؟
Makes me jealous.

Which dialect is your favorite?

لا لسة تيجي الفرصة بس ان شاء الله رح بزورها بالمستقبل القريب

Maha a cute
youtu.be/QH1tWNAewCE

Out of the Saudi ones? The east but that's my biased opinion.

لسة ما*

كل التوفيق إلك

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تحب تمص زبي؟

انت شاذ و من ناس الشارع يا كلب

Based برغر

تحب تلحس خصياني؟

Why are Arab posters so cute and helpful?