Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: decent basic intro

this audio-only course is geared towards people who are not so comfortable learning languages and want to master the real basics of a language in a setting that's reminiscent of having your own personal tutor. if this is you, then this is definitely the course for you. this course walks you through the essentials -- "how are you", "do you understand arabic", etc., nice and slow, with lots of repetition and little extraneous grammar explanations and so on. this course follows the method pimsleur is known for, gradually building up new knowledge in the process of repeating the old knowledge.on the other hand, if you are more comfortable with languages, like to go at your own pace and/or want explanations of how the language works, you will be very frustrated by the endless repetition. go pick up "teach yourself gulf arabic" instead. [unfortunately, not egyptian dialect. i haven't yet found a good egyptian arabic book.]