First Lesson - Arabic Alphabet

The Arabic alphabet  or Arabic Abjad is the Arabic script as it is codified for writing the Arabic language, It is written from right to left, in a connected cursive style, giving each letter a different form given its position in the word. and includes 28 letters.

There are three shapes of letters in Arabic Alphabet  initial , medial and final , and there is another shape of letters called the isolated  (  shown in image above ) . 

And at a first we will learn the isolated form because it is the most foundational and the general form of letters . 

watch this video to learn  the  Arabic Alphabet and how it is pronounce .

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The challenges and difficulties of learning Arabic

 Learning Arabic , however, is often a challenge . Most of the people when see the Arabic script will conclude how difficult it is. It's, however, certainly not complicated and may be very easily realized by a  few months involving steady exercise and practice . The actual pronunciation can be more of a problem, The Arabic language  getting a number of sounds which are certainly not seen in most of other languages and may be challenging to be able to produce and  make a distinction between , These types of sounds are usually very best realized by imitating any native speaker .

Another problem involving finding out Arabic can be that it's consequently totally different from English and other languages  , Like a Semitic Language , Arabic grammar and morphology is very distinct from what you are usually employed to. Verb tenses function in a different way, the word order get differs from the others .

The greatest challenge in learning Arabic is language diglossia ,  Arab nations  have two languages with big differences between them , The first Modern  Standard Arabic , a common language  to all Arabs  which is the formal literary language that is a modern adaptation of the Classical Arabic of the Kora'an ( The holly book of Islam ) . This language is used in newspapers, news broadcasts, formal speeches , not spoken by Arabs in their daily lives .

The second is  modern language , and this language is spoken by Arabs and do not write them and called the Vernaculars. They differ from one country to another and these various dialects are  the native tongues of Arab people and for example the people of Iraq finding difficulty to understand people of Algeria  ,  here is the main problem of foreign people who want to learn Arabic , he must be studying Modern  Standard Arabic  and at the same time the Vernacular language of Arabian country who lives or study in to communicates with peoples in his daily life .

Another challenge is the writing , the Arab characters having  more than one form of writing: in the first of word and in the middle and in the most recent (can be either connected or separate) and from write to left .

Learning Arabic is a challenge in levels but for  those who wish to learn Arabic as a career asset, Arabic is a skill that is in demand by many companies and in specific professions. If you have the patience and  obligation to gain proficiency, it will be well worth the effort.

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