you must learn (fosha) to understand any text in arabic then,you can learn other arabic accent. listen to any thing in arabic (drama,songs.....)it will be helpful to you.

The Egyptian accent is not easy than other arabic accent. It is more correct to say: the Egyptian accent were very known causes of films and series, and because that egypt is geographically in the center of Arab countries. There are accents easier and Nearest to true Arabic, as in some cities in Saudi Arabia and Maghreb countries. For example in Algeria from « Constantine » passing westward. and also cities in the south you will find that their accent is exactly the true Arabic, except adding the letter "ش" which reads "che" (and this in the form negation or interrogation)

if you want to read books, listen to media, talk to all Arabs then you should study real Arabic (Fusha),

the(Fosha) is the key to know the culture of the Arab world,you need to learn it and then learn one of the Arabic dialects(Egyptian dialect)for example.

first off ,yes it`s easier and in my opinion it`s one of the easiest languages ever !!! ,its vocabulary is easier to pronounce or memorize and its grammar is also easy unlike the "fosha " (and i think you know how hard is the grammar of fosha ) second ,no one really speak the fosha in real life ,so it`s only used in books .....and so on third ,the Egyptian dialect is the mother tongue of 80 millions and finally ,it`s understood all over the middle east and north Africa and all people from Arab-countries can easily understand and speak it