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الدرس عظيم. إن شاء الله درس لهجة الشام كمان في المستقبل؟.

I find the use of the شين as 'what' interesting because you see it in different forms in different dialects.

Examples:
شلونك
ش (what) لون (color) ك (your) = What (is) your color?

(Syrian) شو بدك
شو (what) بد (want) ك (you) = What (do) you want?

شكو ماكو؟

من العظيم اني استمع هذا الدرس
اتمنى اني انصحكم درس اكثر بعد.
انشاءالله
Wow, you guys did a great rendition. Definitely sounded like the real thing! Haider did a great job! And you both sounded like my co-workers! Haha! I'm hoping maybe to try to talk to my Lebanese friend and help put together a "Shamsi" dialogue as Azeem suggests! You guys really do an amazing job, bravo!

مع تحياتي

تومز

This lesson is useful - and yes, I support a lesson in Shami Arabic, possibly involving a similar situation or similar expressions so that those of us who do not have much contact with 'Ammiah can get a taste of the kind of variants that are available out there.

In case Beginner students are reading these comments and don't understand, الشام ash sham (fazurin called it Shami) is the dialect name for Damascus and Syria. We are asking for a lesson using the Syrian (ash shami) dialect.

I think its the easiest of the dialects to understand.

Hi, i really enjoy all of your lessons and i especially like this one, that focuses on the dialect in iraq.
I was wondering, though, if you could possibly do a lesson on Libyan dialect. I know its probably not well known, but it would really help me learn because my Dad is from Libya, and my mum is english, and i have taught myself arabic basically, but it would be nice to learn some extra Libyan dialect.
I hope you can help!
Thankyou Arabic Pod

Inshallah we will do Nadine. We'll put the Libyan dialect on our lessons schedule and record one when the material is ready. Initially we would need a Libyan guest, so if you know someone please don't hesitate contacting us

Regarding the Sham dialect, if you search for (wake up) in our lessons page you'll find a lesson titled (Wake up) which was entirely in Sham dialect. however, we'll cover more about dialects in the future which will include more of the sham dialect, just keep it up with ArabicPod to see the difference.

I'll have to check that one out. I don't think I've listened to it.

For Syrian Arabic, you can learn a lot at:

http://syrianarabic.com/

Salam Aleikum Mohamen and Ehab!
Thank you greatly for your lessons. I discovered it arabicpod and found it perfect for those who want to learn from the beginning and improve as well their knowledge.
Thank you very much!
Allah maakum!!!
P.S. I think covering dialects is very important cuz I faced this problem when I studied Arabic at the University and then when I spoke to the native speakers they usually smiled and joked me that its too much standard and nobody uses it in the real life.
So thank you very very much for your wonderful lessons!
Ma salam!