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I found a really funny book called "Making Out in Arabic" (I don't have that kind of aganda, I just bought it for the laugh value, I swear!) It looks like MSA with Egyptian pronunciation.
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Isn't that what we learn anyway? I can't say my name, hello, goodbye, please, thank you or anything useful but I can say "I love you", "darling", "my love", "you are my life"...
My Arabic is like my Maori, only not as good - I can't speak it and know no grammar whatsoever, but I recognise quite a few words or phrases when I hear them now. I'd really like to learn a little. The alphabet puts me off enormously, because when it comes to learning languages I really seem to need to be able to visualise the word and also hear it, to be able to know how to say it, if that makes sense. (Too much audio-lingual French and Latin, I suspect.)