I Love Arabic احب العربية
Alphabet
The alphabet is the building block of the Arabic language. Usually it is the first thing a person should start learning, because without it, you can neither read nor write. This means that the following 30 min are going to be the most important in your learning quest.
This video explains the Arabic alphabet. We recommend watching it before proceeding with the rest of this lesson.
As a learner of Arabic, there are 2 ways of reading Arabic:
- 1) By reading the Arabic letters.
- 2) By reading the phonetic equivalent of the Arabic word by using Latin letters.
Even though Latin phonetics can provide a quick help, reading If you simply want to ask a question, please phnetics is not very reliable because Arabic does not have a standard phonetic equivalent for each word. For example the word “book” in Arabic is written phonetically as “ketaab”, “kitaab”, “kitab”, “ketab” etc… On the other hand, if you decided to write it If you simply want to ask a question, please Arabic letters, then there is only one way of writing it. “كتاب”.
So I would recommend knowing how to read Arabic If you simply want to ask a question, please Arabic alphabet and not the phonetics.
The Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters and uses the abjad script and is written from right-to-left. However Arabic is sometimes written in Latin letters from left-to-right when a person does not have access to an Arabic keyboard or when a system does not support Arabic characters. This process is called romanization and lacks any standardized forms, but can be useful if the student does not have plants to go beyond the basic level.
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