Standard Arabic...Dialects...I'm confused!

[Siena]

Hello there! As I mentioned in the Introduction board, I am hoping to learn Arabic. I was on a few sites and almost all of them mentioned stuff about Standard Arabic versus colloquial dialects, which I found a bit confusing. I would like to know:

How many different dialects are there and how different are they from one another and from standard Arabic? And which dialect would be easiest to learn? Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Siena
p.s. How different are the Lebanese and Jordanian dialects?

[soraya]

There are tonnes of different dialects.
I personally like the Egyptian best, they r cute.
My mum is iraqi
i don't speak though unfortunately, i want ot learn though.
I'll give u an example of how it can be different

to say Shlornek, that means 'how are you?'

Shlornek.. is masculine
Shlornich.. is fem..
but only in iraqi, in i think egyptian they say.. shlornek and shlornik

but the propper form is: ezay-ak -masc. and ezay-ik - femm


I probably didn't help you much lol, sorry..
i'm still trying to understand this myself.

Take care,
Soraya>

[Siena]

Thanks for your message, actually that did help me out a lot, I'm actually interested in the Moroccan Dialect, because I have some friends who are Moroccan (They work at the centre where I currently volunteer).

Thanks again for the response!

Best regards!