> explaining that the entire region knows this dialect because Egypt is the TV and movie hub of the Arabic world.

I suspect this is actively changing and in another generation or so won’t be true. All major TV, movies and music production has migrated to the Arab oil states since the late 2000s and accelerated in the 2010s. Today all major media production companies are based in the Gulf states.

You got me started on learning Spanish there. So far so good.

Kind of crazy that it has Swahili but not Portuguese.

Same here. Language Transfer helped me pick up so many languages in a short time easily.

Far better than every other tool I’ve tried from Duolingo, Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone etc.