Which Arabic?
Most courses and online resources (including retail giants like Rosetta Stone) are designed to teach you Modern Standard Arabic, a literary language that no person anywhere on the planet speaks as a first, native language.
Hi! How are you?
أهلا! ازيك؟
Which resources?
Good quality resources for spoken Arabic can be very difficult or even impossible to find. This makes learning Arabic much more challenging to learn than it should be and it causes many learners to give up.