2. By Noha Andrios

3. Lesson 1 objectives In this lesson you will get to learn  How to read  And speak Dialog no.1 “meeting some one for the first time”. The dialog is in modern standard Arabic.

4. History Dialog No. 1 Home page Characters

5. History  There are two type of Arabic  Classical (the one used in old literature)  Modern (the one used today and which we are going to learn in this lesson).  It comes from Sam ( son of Noah) and from his descendents Ishmael (all are considered profits to Arabs due to their religious book Quran).  Arab believe that Ishmael is the one who improved the classical Arabic.  All types of Arabic start from right to left

6. Characters  There are 29 characters in Arabic In this lesson we will learn 17 of them in order to speak the dialog no. 1 1- Al-Hamza ( ء ) sounds /a/ as in am. 2- Alif ( ا ) sounds short and long /a/ depending on the word. As in Arc and application. Alif also drags other characters in sound. For example, when it comes with b makes it sound /ba/. 3- Baa ( ب ) sounds b as in book

7. Characters 4 - Jeem ( ج ) sounds /J/ as in jet. 5 - Haa ( ح ) doesn’t exist in English. In such case the best way to learn is to listen carefully and repeat over and over. 6 - Raa ( ر ) sounds /r/ as in red but rolled. 7- Seen ( س ) sounds /s/ as in sword. 8 - Sheen ( ش ) sounds /sh/ as in shepered

8. Characters 9 – Faa ( ف ) sounds /f/ as in fire. 10- Qaaf ( ق ) it doesn’t exist in English. It comes out from closing the throat. 11- Kaaf ( ك ) sounds /k/ as in ark. 12- Laam ( ل ) always sounds light /l/ as in lamb. 13- Meem ( م ) sounds /m/ as in man.

9. Characters 14- Noon ( ن ) sounds /n/ as in night. 15- waaw ( و ) sounds /w/ as in weight. 16- yaa ( ي ) sounds /y/ as in yard. 17- Taa ( ت ) sounds /t/ as in tea.

10. Dialog No. 1 Meeting someone for the first time  Hello my name is John - مرحبا انا اسمي جون  Hello I am Tina - مرحبا انا تينا  Honored to meet you Tina - تشرفت بلقائكي تينا  The honor is mine John - الشرف لي جون

11. Ready for a quick quiz? YesNo

12. Q1- How many characters are there in Arabic language? - 21 - 26 - 28 - 29

13. Q2- How is the character R ( ر ) pronounced? - Unrolled - Rolled - By using lips - By using throat

14. Q3- The character ( ق ) is pronounced by using your - Tongue - Throat - Teeth - Lips

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18. Congratulation! That was correct! Ready for question 2 ? Yes No

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