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Teach me your لهـــــجة السعودية

plz teach me some basic lahja in saudiarabia arabic.
i think they are some words aren't the same in Fusha.
for instance:
ابغي : i want
شوية: a little
:مرة: alot
what else ........ plz teach me

shokran lakom

For learning: Arabic
Base language: English
Category: Language

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    الحين : now
    ليش؟ : why?
    أبغى أروح.. : I wanna go...
    أهلين و سهلين : (greeting)
    الله يسعدك : May Allah make you happy (u can say it when someone offer u something and u r really happy bout it/usually with close people)
    فين؟ : where?
    ايش؟: what?
    عطني/عطيني الزبدة؟ (literally means "give me the butter!" but it's said when someone's talking & talking & talking about a thing & u just wanna hear/know the point of this conversation & the important thing of this whole conversation) so it's like give me the point!
    كشخة : Fashionable, and its said when something is cool.
    لا يكثر: it's like, "don't say more!" said when someone is talking a lot nonsense & saying something without any knowledge.
    يجَنّنْ: "makes me crazy" (but in a good way) so when something is beautiful u can say that^^
    that's what is in my mind right now^^''

    there's a comedy Saudi YouTube show that talks in a Saudi accent & it has eng subs as well. I think it'd be so helpful for u. it's called "لا يكثر" ^^ here is the channel http://www.youtube.com/user/layektharshow?feature=watch

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