Gulf Arabic on LingQ

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I would also recommend the language learning section of al-Jazeerah the news network here: اللغة الإنجليزية | تعلم العربية as well as this fantastic language learning blog: http://www.thearabicstudent.com/. With al-Jazeera you can find articles some even with a video and transcript, and the language learner blog posts video clips with a few MSA as well as various dialects and includes a transcript with explanations.

It may be less of a problem if your goal is just reading, but I have found that it is very difficult to read comfortably without a fair bit of exposure to the pronunciation. This is a combination of getting used to the new script, the fact that they don’t write short vowels, and that they have 9 new sounds for an English speaker to get used to. Therefore it is a big help when you can read along with the audio from a native speaker. Hope that helps and good luck with your language learning!

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Benjamin, thank you for your good general advice and for those two links. In my particular case my formal training in Arabic was primarily audio-lingual and it is my reading and vocab that are weak. Plus my reading interests aren’t those found on general sites. So I am interested in the possibility of reading MSA within LingQ using texts I supply.

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Thank you for this. The variety of dialects (along with Steve not having done it yet, not a lot on LingQ, etc.) is contributing to my delay on learning this awesome language. Knowing that I could do MSA first, and then decide a dialect if I want is very helpful.