ساكون في ابو ظابي الاسبوع القادم لكن لا اعرف اللهجة الخليجية. I am very familiar with insistence among Arabs that Fusha is the only way to go, but it is very frustrating after learning MSA for 4 years to realize that many radio and TV shows are in what amounts to another language. My experience in Egypt and Morocco and Lebanon is that people become intimidated by Fusha, and among the expat Arabs, they may not even understand it. Films in Arabic are in Egyptian usually, and I have been learning Egyptian for some time now. I also have some experience with Lebanese colloquial. I have noticed that in Guf Arabic, the word for 'now' is الحين, not الان not دالوقت, not هلاأ. or دبا. Are all of these forms known to Arabic speakers?