Just an addendum to my last post...

I didn’t even have ayna and bejaanab right. To all of you who study MSA and who feel pretty comfortable with your conversation skills; it is with a big heaping dose of shadenfreude that I tell you...you know nothing. Colloquial Arabic here in Jerusalem is nothing like the Arabic I learned in DC. Nothing. Does anyone know which regional dialect is closest to fussha Arabic? Wherever it is, that must be where all the newscasters come from. What a blessed country it must be for it to have all that media talent.