Is basic Syrian Arabic the same as basic Egyptian Arabic?

Question

I bought pimsleur basic arabic so I could learn to speak to my Egyptian relatives but on the CDs they make a couple referances to Syria so am I learning Syrian Arabic or just regular Arabic

Answer 1

May be the company or distributing that made the CDs is originally from Syria.

But when teaching Arabic, only classical version is taught.

Dialects are taught by people and / or experience

حظ سعيد ;)

Answer 2

More than likely you're learning Standard Arabic. Most educational CDs come with Egyptian Colloquial Arabic because of Egypt's role in films and news audiences so unless it's obscure it's likely to be made Standard with some Egyptian Colloquial.