Very nice. Thank you for sharing

Here's a youtube channel that has some lyrics written down in the description: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYmjRHj3JhpWvrBjClZLnDw

This was very nice and helpful

الف شكر. جزاك الله خيرا

In general, I'd say that songs and movies are the most effective way to learn languages because of the way they provide sufficent repetion without driving you crazy, or making you fall asleep.

I have been looking for a book that has something more interesting as examples than the usual dialogues which can be rather mind-numbing at times. I have not found one yet. That is why I use the animation movie Kung Fu Panda as my learning resource. It is in Fusha Arabic and the movie actually gets better the more I watch it.

About learning Fusha first, I completely agree that it's where one should start learning Arabic, but I believe the reason why so many foreigners who study Arabic say they are interested in learning dialects is that it gets annoying, after years of study, to not be able to understand anything when actual Arabs speak it. Furthermore, it is easy enough to learn Fusha from books (they exist in abundance) but learning dialects requires immersion in the target region, or a very patient and serious teacher. More and more emphasis is therefore been given to dialects and it is possible to find some books with CD's or DVD's that concentrate on the different dialects, but I have yet to find a good book that covers everything one needs to know in oreder to understand native speakers.

The problem with using songs and movies to produce more interesting learning materials is of course intellectual property rights, and publishing houses are required to produce their own content instead of using popular culture and art that students might find more interesting.

If anybody actually reads this far and wants to be Kung Fu Panda partners, just let me know and we'll find a way to not infringe too much on Disney's copyrights. I have the movie in Arabic, English, French, and Finnish (and we might be able to share audio only on youtube etc.)

I know that translation isn't easy, and poetry is especially tricky, BUT if anyone here has the time to  give a LITERAL WORD-FOR-WORD translation, I believe it would beneficial to those of us trying to learn the language. I can do this by myself with a dictionary but it will take much longer.

Anyway, thanks for sharing. I did understand something and I liked it very much.

All the Disney movies that came out before Frozen are all dubbed in the Egyptian dialect. For me, cartoons in general have been much more helpful than movies. You can download a torrent by the name Arabic Disney for a pack. Also check out youtube for clips from Disney movies in Arabic with English subtitles.