About the Arabic
Alphabet
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Arabic is read from right
to left
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اللغة
العربية سهلة
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There are 29 letters
in the Arabic alphabet
29
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There is no such thing as capital
letters versus small letters
Basically, there is no such thing as
printing versus hand writing / cursive
So basically, there’s only one way to write Arabic
So basically, there’s only one way to write Arabic
Read the chart of letters below from right to left, top to bottom
You can click on each letter to hear its name
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Basically, all 29 letters
are consonants
Vowels are not part of the alphabet; they will
be discussed later
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Each letter has 4 forms
(which look very similar to each other)
o
when you write the letter
by itself
o
when it comes in the
beginning of a word
o
when it comes in the middle
of a word
o
when it comes at the end of
a word
These forms will be discussed later
The forms you saw in the chart are when the letter is by itself
The forms you saw in the chart are when the letter is by itself
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end
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middle
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beginning
|
by itself
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ـب
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ـبـ
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بـ
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ب
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When we learn the Arabic
alphabet in these lessons, we will talk about the following things:
o
what
is the letter’s name?
o
how
do you pronounce the letter?
o
how
do you write the letter (in all 4 forms)?
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