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Hmm, sounds like the situation with English - some speak Cockney, some speak Geordie, some speak Scouse, etc. but everybody understands 'BBC English'. So why does every Arabic textbook in the world...

How different are the dialects from the Standard Arabic? If one learns STA, would one still be able to understand people in, say, Egypt or Saudi Arabia reasonably well? So how does one learn to speak...