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How to write & read arabic alphabet

teacher avatar Issam Khemiri, Youtuber, Entrepreneur

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Intro

      0:40

    • 2.

      Class project

      0:24

    • 3.

      Listenning and understanding

      1:47

    • 4.

      Alif,baa,taa,thaa

      3:41

    • 5.

      Jeem,7aa,kha

      1:35

    • 6.

      Daal,dhaal,raa,zaa

      1:57

    • 7.

      Seen,cheen,saad,dhad,Taa,dhaa

      3:32

    • 8.

      3ayn,ghayn 2

      3:28

    • 9.

      Meem,noon,ha,waw,ya

      2:39

    • 10.

      position letters

      8:47

    • 11.

      Connectiong letters

      2:45

    • 12.

      VOWELS arabic

      3:26

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Welcome to our comprehensive course on mastering the Arabic alphabet! In this engaging five-part series, we will take you on an exciting journey to learn the Arabic alphabet from the ground up.

Part 1: Listening & Understanding We begin by immersing you in the beautiful sounds of Arabic. Through interactive exercises and immersive experiences, you will grasp the pronunciation and nuances of each letter, building a strong foundation for your language journey.

Part 2: Writing & Reading Unlock the art of writing and reading Arabic as we guide you step-by-step through the intricacies of each letter. From pen strokes to proper formation, you'll gain confidence in expressing yourself in this exquisite script.

Part 3: Position of Letters Discover the significance of letter placement within words. Learn how to identify letters at the beginning, middle, and end of words, enriching your understanding of Arabic text and enhancing your language comprehension.

Part 4: Connecting Letters Master the art of seamless letter connections, a vital aspect of Arabic writing. Our expert guidance will help you achieve fluidity in writing and reading, making your language expression even more captivating.

Part 5: Short & Long Vowels Delve into the world of vowels and uncover the distinction between short and long vowel sounds. Develop a keen ear for pronunciation and elevate your language skills to convey emotion and meaning accurately.

Whether you are a complete beginner or seeking to refine your Arabic language proficiency, this course offers a well-rounded and accessible approach to learning the Arabic alphabet. By the end, you will feel empowered to read, write, and connect with the beauty of this ancient script, opening doors to new opportunities and cultural connections. Join us on this enriching journey into the heart of the Arabic language!

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1. Intro : As Saleema honeycomb and Amazon hay France. My name is Sam. I'm a YouTuber and I'm native Arabic speaker. In this class, I'm going to teach you the Arabic alphabet from the scratch. And over the next lessons, I teach you everything you know about writing in Arabic alphabet in five-part listening and understanding how to write and read it, how to position letters, how to connecting them, and understanding the Arabic long and short voids. In the end of this class, you'll be able to write all the Arabic alphabet like any Arabic. And we start with the next lesson in the class project. See you there. 2. Class project: Welcome to the class. In this little lesson, I'm going to tell you about the class project. That one is pretty simple. By the end of the class, I want you to write all the Arabic alphabet and to record simple video that you read all the Arabic alphabet that you writed and uploaded them in the section class project. Then you'll be able to give other people feedback for what they did. So I hope you enjoy the class. 3. Listenning and understanding: Other big language, like any language, has four skills. Listening, we call it St. Matthew speaking, we call it KLM, reading, we call it Tara writing, we call it Kitab in Charlotte. In this lesson, we are gonna start with listening and understanding. Say for example, me I ASAM is me ASAM, my name Iis ASAM. And it's me a SAM. My name is Anna Min tunas. And Min Tunis from Tunisia. From Tunisia. Anna Min Tunis from Tunisia, Tunisia, Tunisia, Tunisia. Tunisia. Then after that we have some greeting. If somebody did something good, we say shook Quran means, thank you. I've won the response of sugar and ease Alpha-1, Alpha-1 show Quran 1.5. Also we say Sabah, whole high-yield boot morning. I said again, Sabah. Hello. The response for Seba haha eats easy. Sabah. Sabah, Honduras. It's MSSA or MSSA or good evening myself, Ohio. But we heard the greeting valid for anytime a seller more alaykum response for Salim Ali co wireless Como Salim. This about the listening. If we know this one, it's fine in Arabic language, like any language who start with listening and understanding. Then in the next lesson we go to something else, reading and writing with the reading I take you to read and write in the same time. 4. Alif,baa,taa,thaa: The Arabic alphabet contain 28 letters and the ear bronchus. Don't worry about what you see. It's not hard, like it looks now. Just stick with me. And in some short next lessons, you will see how easy it now I have some really good news for you. First, the Arabic as Leslie phonetic, that means the words are pronounced it exactly as they are written. Secondly, most letters have counterparts in English. Now we are going to learn about the first letter, which is LF. Lf. Lf is similar to the a sound in English. I'm going to write one more time. You can see how I'm tracing it. Lf. Lf. Lf. You start from top and go down, that's your LF. Next we have three letters after the LF. The reason be these three, they are the same shape and the shape is like a boat. So we're gonna to agree to call them both familiar. Next thing, whatever you are going to write from now on in Arabic, it has to start from this direction. And you go on across the page. I start from here, then I go tries it and then just curve it at the end. This, the second and the third. Now in Arabic, when you have the same shape, may be repeated twice or three times as in this one. We use those to differentiate between them. So some of them have one dot. Sam may have to, Sam may have 33 is the maximum dots in Arabic alphabet, savvy on top, some will be on below. Let's have a look. The first one in the boats family, which you have now the picture of them in your mind. So we put one dot here, which is below, one dot below. This is bad, bad, bad, bad. That's similar to the sound big in English. So think of both family and think of dog below one dot, iz, bad, bad. Now let's put two dots here above the second boat. Two dots, these little ease. And it's the letter T in English. We have one below, bad to above there. Let's put three dots here and say, fair, fair, fair, fair. In English, you will refer to this as th, just like in the word think or thought. Fair, fair. The boats familiar. One dot below is bad. Dots above. Is there? Three dots above? Is fair. If I test you now and I say, Oh, right there for me, all you have to remember is the shape and try to remember the dots related to tab. So you will remember that you have the boats family and you have two dots above that's there. What if I say write better for me? It's the same boat for meeting. You are right the shape and you put one dot below, fair right, the same shape and then put three dots above. So elif, bear. And fair, well done. You know how to write it and you know how to read it. Well done, good. 5. Jeem,7aa,kha: So the next family also, there are three in the family as well. Let's write them here. Some familiar look at the way I'm reading the line. In this case, I write line and then add like a capital C and capital C, lyme and capital C, I want you to write them in one goal. So when you are written they in the next makes sure you have a smooth written. Let's do something to differentiate between ten. The first one, we add dot below and we say Gim. You can refer to it as J or G in English, Gim, Gim me, Gim, Zhe. The second, we don't add any dot and we say, I'm going to put a mark here because here is no equivalent sound. Do it in English. I'm going to write it again. I start from here, then I go down and I put curve hat. The third we add dot above and we say, I will do refer to it as capital Th. We don't have it in English. Here is no equivalent sound to it. Same shape. Now, seven liters is gone. See you in the next lesson. 6. Daal,dhaal,raa,zaa: The next few letters now, there are only two in the family. We started at one in the family. The second we have a three in the facility. The third we have a three in the familiar and now we have two in the family. This is sitting pretty in the line. In this case, when you have two in the family, one of them has to have a dot. Number one have no dot that Dan, Dan, and that's similar to D. The second one has one dot above and that the veil. So the first one, then the second one with one dot is then I'm going to refer to it as Th, because we don't have an equivalent sound to it in English. And it's like the word this or that. This is the same sound of van. Then. Now note how the tank is flat and it's outing little bit with no presser. Del Val. The next family also has only two letters. The first is rah, rah, rah, rah, like air in English. And you start from the lion and you curve it when you go down, Let's write it again. Rah, rah, rah, rah. Don't have dot. The second has dot z, where z. And you can refer to it as z, z in English, Let's write it again. Z, z, Z. 7. Seen,cheen,saad,dhad,Taa,dhaa: The next familiar also has only two letters. Then it's like number three looking up and we've paid the first one. No dot is seen. Scene, scene. And that's similar to S in English. The second litter has three dots, is Xin, Xin. And the referred to it as capital ASH, like in the word shape. Del z, scene, she leave bad, fair. Gim. Del z. Seen Xin. Next formula also two in the family. Now you're going to see my hand movement is going to be clockwise. You go this direction. So you start like this, you completed and then do your tail one more time. The second in the family, clockwise and do detail. You can see before the tail, you have this angle here, this little corner here from their star detail. Now the first one, no dot is sad, sad. Referred to it as a big capital S, but there is no equivalent sound to it in English, It's a deeper sound. If you say, see, this one is SAR. The second 11 dot is VOD. We don't have an agreement on sound to it in English, It's also deeper. We're going to refer to it as DH. That in Arabic is no in any language else. That's why they call it the Arabic language, the language of that Lua to the next family also there are two letters. The bit, the base of this next family is the same base of this one. And he don't have dot. Let's see what's happening clockwise. That's the base, but instead, we have lion coming from top-down. This letter is tar, tar, and he don't have dot. I refer to it as capital T is a deeper sound. We have in the boat family. This is deeper. It's from here to there is no equivalent sound to it in English. The next one has the same shape like you see. And then down and this one has dot, and it's var, var, I'm going to refer to it as capital T and H var, var. There is no equivalent sound to it in English. But if you remember that this is deeper sound, var, var. Here you can see the base of VAD is the same. The difference is in the tail and the lion top down. So when you have this base, you can form four letters. 8. 3ayn,ghayn 2: The next family also are two letters. It's like three upside down and we will write like this. The first one, no dot, the second 11 dot. The first is I. I, I. We don't have an agreement on sound to it in English, but I'm going to refer to it. Apostrophe with a, the second litter is the vein. Vein. There is no equivalent sound to it in English, I'm going to refer to it as GH, rain, the next family. Very easy. This 11 dot. That's fair, fair. It's like if in English, the second letters slightly deeper than the fair. So you have two dots on top of it. And that's car. Car. I'm going to refer to it as a goo. We don't have an equivalent sound to it in English. When you say, it's like mouth open. Fair car. Next letter is lonely. We write like this. We have a straight line down, stretch, spread it and girls slightly and put this shape inside it. That's is care. Gef. Always look at the movement of your mouth. Care, care. And that's similar to key in English and recurring, write it like this. Gif. The two are correct. Let's repeat from the beginning. Bat. Fair. Gim Zehr seen She sawed var. Var. Fair. Cough. The next little, Only one as well. And it's very simple to write it and to pronounce it. Let's have a look. Straight line going through the line of paper and Guttenberg again and stop. That's lamb referred to it as l in English. Let's repeat from the beginning. I live bear fair Gim Zehr scene. She saw the fair lead. 9. Meem,noon,ha,waw,ya: The next letter, which is meme, meme, meme. I want you to pay attention for the way I'm going to draw it. You'd go up to the right clockwise, slightly around and the buck and drop. The last movement is this drop, except that you are starting from the top, you are going to draw the head first one more time. You go around clockwise and drop. And that's your meme, meme. And that's similar to m sound in English. Meme. Next is noon, noon, noon one also in the family, and we write it like this. This letter has one dot and that's similar to n sound in English. Now is hair, it's a combination of del, and then you go inside. That's your head. I'm going to do it again. We don't have similar sound to it in English. The next letter is wow, it like the ROM and disease. But with a head on top, you're going clockwise and just drop it. We refer to it by capital W in English. And the last letter in alphabet, easier yet, Let's write it down. That's yet simple shape with two dots below. Now together Let's reading alphabet from the beginning. I live. Bad. Fair scene. She saw fair enough. Lamb. Meme, meme, meme noon. Noon. Had wow. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. This is the alphabet. How to write it and read it. See you in the next lesson. 10. position letters: Welcome back. Now we're going to get introduce it to the letter's position. When you write Arabic, you will not write, for example, the letters just like that. But Arabic letters, they do get connected to each other and they will just like something like that. I'm going to show you how each one of the Arabic alphabet gets a different shape in three different positions. I'm going to do the isolated forum, initial form, medial forearm, and final form. This is the isolated form of LF and I'm going to mark certain alphabets and I'll show you why I'm doing that. Lf When you write it at the beginning, it's the state as it in the middle. It connected to any letter before it, but nothing after it. That's why a mucky net, when you connect the left to the words or the letters, connect it to the letter before, but to nothing after it. The final forum also takes the same shape. So you connect it before, but you do not connect it after it. We have bear when you start to, if you delete the final curve of the letter Y because it needs to be connected to other letters. And you put the dot, write it underneath in the middle because it connects to before and after. So you keep that line here. You put this little tooth, as I call them, straight it again, and you put the dot right in the mid-70s. The final form, you take the line to get connected to anything before it. But at the end it keeps the isolated fall. As soon as you know how the bed is written, it's easier for you to know they're unfair because they all take the same shape except the placement of the dots or the number of the dots is different. You start the same way as bear, but you put two dots on top in the middle at the end. Fare three dots in the middle at the end. Then we have gene. I'm going to write the Gim half and cow, because all of the three, they have the same shape except the number of dots or the placement of the dots. So Gim, look how I'm starting it from here to here. And instead of carbonate down, I keep it straight because I need to connect it in the middle. I put the connecting line before it. Then I write my Gim with the little longer line after for connecting it to next letter. And it's similar with same way in the middle. And the end. Here is another litter, same system like LF, which is the dead. And I market again. So they'll at the beginning, just the same way, nothing gets added to it. And in the middle forum, you connect it to before, but do nothing after. Then the final forum, just like that. Then we have the same way. Then. They'll there. Then RA and Z, they function the system like lf. You start your word with the same shape in isolated farm. In the middle, it connected with this small line before these is raw. And then the same way. At the end, it goes same way. Ra z. Then seen is related forum. When you write it at the beginning, just to write the two teeth and keep the lane street because it use it to connect it to any later after it. And you have got in the middle, you start with the connecting line, and you end with the connecting line. The final photo, you start with the connecting line. And then you just ended with IT-related forum of the scene. And the she takes the same path, Xin, Xin and chain. Then you got sad, sad in the middle started with the connecting line and write the letter like this and add the connecting line after it. Then in the end of the word connecting line before and write these related shape of salt. The same thing goes with four, also the same in the beginning. In the middle, we add the connecting line before and after the letter. And in the end, we add connecting line before the insulated forum of the letter Tau. We go to the width the same way. In this letter, you have to be a little careful with the Hein. I see how it is at the isolated farm. When you start the world with this letter, you just dip the half circle and keep the connecting line after it in the middle for he changed Gilbert, start with connecting line before and draw an upside down triangle. You'll see the final forum. It's the same upside down triangle and then going down like this. Now we have God going to Chaim, it takes the same shape. You start with it this way. If the middle like this, and in the end like this, then we have fair. When you write it in the first of the world, don't curve it, keep it straight. In the middle. You just add the connecting line before and you write it again, keep it straight. Nbn, add connecting line plus the letter in the user rated form. Same thing with cough, beginning of the world, in the middle, in the end. Then we have GIF. This is an interesting one because it changes when you put an isolated for, it's like that. When you start, you do like this and you do like that in the middle, you write it this way. Again. You can write, let them there and you add this line on top. Of course, we add the connecting line before the letter and after it. In the end. You can either write it like that. You can curve this, or you write it like the isolated form. We have five more letters to go. Let me show you. We have got good. Then. When you start with lamb, any word you write it like this. In the middle, like this. At the end, we add the connecting line plus four. And then meme is related photo. When you write it at the beginning, just to write it this circle and the connecting line after it. In the middle, you start with the connecting line and your amine like this and ended with the connecting line. The fight and form new start with the connecting line. And then you just end it. We've isolated forum of the meme. Then we've got noon, noon. It takes the same shape as the fair. You start with it this way and put the dots above it in the middle at connecting line before and write it like this. At the end. We write it like this. And then we have, well, while it like the LF, it gets connected to anything before it. So when you start, you don't connected to nothing. The middle, it goes connected to anything before some of this at the end. Then we have got VA If the same as bare. Fair noon. So you start this way. You're right here in the middle, at the end, at the isolated later to the connecting line. 11. Connectiong letters: In this lesson, we'll going to know how to connect the letters. So I'm going to put isolated letters and then we're going to see how we connect them. We're gonna start with the bar plus f plus lambda plus bed. First we have to know the farm that I'm going to write it. Since it occurs at the beginning, it's gonad to take the initial form. The initial forum of tau will be this. Then we have LF. Lf, as we said earlier, it's one of the letters that do attach to other letters before it, but not after. So we will just attach it to the top. Whatever we are going to write after LF will be take the initial form. Now we have Len, it's not going to be attached to the LF and it gets automatically her initial form like this. Then we're going to write the final form of bare. This word is liberty. Liberty means student. Let's take another world I live, plus scene plus the plus LF plus then elif occurs at the beginning with the initial form. And we do not connected to any letter afterwards. So we are just going to bring this scene over here in the initial form. Then we have debt, the ethics also the medial forum. Then we have LF. It takes the medial forearm, then takes his initial form because elif is the president letter to him and elif don't accept any attachment after it done. This word is a step, or step means teacher. Teacher. One more word, I plus, plus, plus, plus. There is in the beginning and it's thick hair initial form plus RA is in the middle and it takes her middle form like this, takes the initial forum because I don't accept any attachment after it takes the middle forum. And there is in the final of this world and take his final forum like this. This word is Arabi. Arabi means Arabic. We need to practice then to 20 watts every day for master this part of this class, let's move to the next part of Arabic volumes. 12. VOWELS arabic: Now we are going to get introduce it to the voice in Arabic. So we have two short vowels and long voids. The short voids we call them hurricanes, Coursera, long voids, we call them hurricanes. We're gonna to start with hurricane Coursera. We have four main short boils. We have fatale. It is little dash on top of the letter and make sound. I can pick any letter I want. For example, bear, and I would write it like that. And then put just Fatah on top of it and will sound as bad. Bear, bear. The second one would be them. And it's a small world on top of the letter and the mammoths oo sound. So if I'm going to write bear and then I will put the camera on top of it. That will sound as boo, boo, boo. And we have Coursera. Coursera goes underneath the letter and it makes the e sound. If I put bear and add Coursera underneath it, it will be sound as b. B, b. We have bear Bu be. The other one is Tikkun. And so Kuhn is a circle on top of the letter and it makes a pause. I will refer to it as the English FA, which is a pause in English phonetic. If I put bear and I put so Kuhn on top of it, and it is a pause a bit. But let's look at words. They has short voice. Bait. Bait means house. See how I put the short vowels on top of the letter. If I take another one, cut means male cut. Let's take another one. Column. Carla. The short vowels tell me the pronounciation of Arabic words. Now let's get to the long voids. So I'm going to write hurricane Coahuila. There are three main long boils. We have else-if, and dwell. These three long vowels are not consonants. They are just long voice because none of them can take any short volume what gets pronounced? It is the sound that occurs before it. So let's look at this example. We take the bait again. If I want to write bear and I want to add a leaf to it, it is bare. It makes a longer sound. And I take bear again, and I add yet to it. It makes b. B. If I take B again and I put wow to it, it makes, Bu, elif makes, makes. And while mix. You can take any letter. And if you add long voyage to it, it makes that little longer sound. Always the letter that appears before LF, it has fatale. The letter that occures always before. Yeah, it has Coursera. The letter that occurs before. Wow, it always has done.