a good example of why you should learn MSA and not dialects
look at this brother, his language is very beautiful, everyone could understand him, he could speak to everyone, he speaks modern standard arabic, and not dialect
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1101820101
edit: it seems i have started a war with dialect supporters and im losing karma points so i removed all my comments and i will mention points that will reply to all the comments
why learn fusa over dialect?
there are 1.7 billion muslims today who dont speak arabic, and to them if they wish to learn arabic, and surely at one point they all thought of learning arabic, the first reason would be
1- to learn and understand the quran
2- to converse with others
why learning fusha is better than learning a dialect first?
1- with fusha you can converse with all arabs, but with dialect you can only converse with one arab country
2- with fusha you can understand the quran, but with dialects you cant
3- if you completely learn fusha, dialects will come naturally depending on who you mix with, but if you learn dialect, fusha will not come naturally because there is no one to speak fusha with
oh but i dont want to learn arabic just for quran i just want to speak with my family
you are a minority, almost every muslim whoever thought of learning arabic was because to understand the quran, and im speaking to the vast majority and they are numbered 1.7 billion non arab speaking muslims, if you fully learn fusha, and mix with your friends and family you will naturally pick up their dialect
one of my replies which cost me karma
i have no idea how can learning a dialect first help someone understand quran,
but if you pulled it off then good for you
millions of muslims live in the west who dont know arabic, its pointless for them to start with learning a dialect, why even pick a dialect of a country that a western muslim will never visit in his whole life
maybe you will find the 1% of muslims living in the west who are third generation immigrants who want to learn arabic just to talk with their extended family, well, they are 1% and if we stop generalizing, explaining anything becomes 3 times more annoying without someone mentioning a rare scenario that ruins the subject for the normal occurring scenarios
finally
dialect supporters, you are a minority, there are no schools that teach dialects, there are no books that teach dialects, you pushing for learning dialects which strives to divide the islamic world
even arab natives today, non of them went to study other dialects but they can understand what the other dialects are saying, only because of exposure