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| مرحبا انا نورا! |
| (marhaban ana nora!) |
| Hi I'm Nora! |
| Welcome to Arabicpod101.com's Abjadiyyah Made Easy! |
| The fastest, easiest, and most fun way to learn the Arabic alphabet: the [أَبجَدِيَّة] (abjadiyyah). |
| In the last lesson, you reviewed the letters you learned in lessons 12 to 15. Do you remember how to read and write them? Let's move on! |
| In this lesson you'll learn the two remaining vowels in Arabic: و (wāw) and ي (yāʾ). |
| First, let's start with (wāw)و. This letter sounds just like the English "U" in the word "tune." It should be pretty easy to pronounce. It's a circle above the line, connected to a short stroke that extends beneath the line. It kind of looks like a big comma, doesn't it? |
| Let's write the isolated form. |
| Wāw is the last letter in the Arabic alphabet and only has two forms, just like the ا,ر,ز,د,ذ (alif, rāʾ, zayn, dāl, ḏāl). |
| The initial form is like the isolated form, and the medial form is the same as its final form. |
| Here's how to write the final form. |
| Now let's see the next letter, ي (yāʾ). This is the last vowel in the Arabic alphabet. It's pronounced just like the English "I" in the word "tin." Pretty easy, right? |
| You could imagine this letter as a duck with the two dots below as its feet! |
| Here's how to write the isolated version. |
| Let's see the other versions of this letter: |
| Initial: |
| Medial: |
| and Final: |
| Did you notice how it looks so different in the final form? It dips beneath the line in that form. |
| For the initial and medial form, it looks like the ت (tāʾ) but with dots beneath the boat-like character instead of above it. |
| And now, let's see how to write them: |
| That's it for this lesson's letters! Now let's learn a couple of new words together using our newly learned vowels! |
| Our first word is مَشغول (mašġūl) which means "congratulations." Here we have an initial م (mīm) with a fatha on top, connected to a medial ش (šīn), connected to a medial غ (ġayn) then to a final و (wāw). Lastly, the ل (lām) is written in the isolated form because و (wāw) does not have a medial form which connects to the letter after it. |
| Let's write it. |
| Next we have جَميل (ǧamīl) meaning "beautiful." ج (ǧīm) is in the initial form, connected to a medial م (mīm), connected to another medial ي (yāʾ) and then to a final ل (lām). |
| Here's how we write it. |
| Now it's time for Nora's tips. |
| You may think that Arabic is a very alien language compared to others, but that's not actually the case. |
| Arabic is an ancient language, and it's only natural that many other languages have loanwords from it. |
| In fact, many English words have Arabic origins! For example, 'algebra' comes from the Arabic word الجَبر (al-ǧabr). |
| Also 'alchemy' originates from the Arabic word الكيمياء (al-kīmyāʾ), and many more. |
| Okay! We're done with the basic letters! In the next lesson, we'll introduce some new versions of alef. |
| See you in the next Abjadiyyah Made Easy lesson. |
| Take care! Salam! |
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