Learning Arabic?

I picked up the Arabic version of the Pimsleur Language Learning System, which is the same system that I used to get started learning Mandarin. It worked extremely well, although I must have sounded like a complete fool repeating "would you like to have a cup of tea?" a thousand times to myself.

From what I hear, English is a highly dominant language in Dubai, and even Hindi and Urdu are more commonly spoken there; however, it won't stop me from trying to pick up at least some of the language - to truly understand and appreciate a foreign culture, one must at least make an attempt to talk the talk.