Hi TigerB, I did a TAFE course which was pretty much an adult education recreational type course. But really I learned just as much from a couple of travel phrase books, and checking with Arabic speakers as to pronunciation (which in my case was always shocking anyway).
From the phrase books I learnt all the numbers which was useful and simple words like please, thank you, left, right etc.
The best phrase I learnt that was not in the phrase book was told to me by a friend who had been to Cairo before. Not sure of the proper romanised spelling but it sounds like: ma-fish-wa-loose and means "there is no more money left" very useful in the markets
