Introduction to Studying ARABIC

العربية اللغة

a- Arabic is written from right to leftامرحبوسهال اهال

b- The shape of many of its 28 letters change depending on their position within a word and the letters around them; some letters must be connected to other letters, others may stand alone.

c- Arabic vowels are indicated by marks above and below the consonants, in some texts such as newspapers and magazines, these marks are not often used. Parsing system

d-There is no capitalization, i.e. there are no capital letters, such as those used in English, to indicate proper nouns or the beginning of a sentence.

• Arabic pronunciation includes a variety of distinctive guttural sounds that are formed in a different way than most sounds in European languages.

• Hello marhaba

• Good morning sabah elkhair

• Good evening masaa elkhair

• Good night tesbah alkhair

• Goodbye maaslama

• How  are you? keef halek?

• Fine ana bekhair

• Thank you shookran

. Yes naam

• No la

• Please minfadlak

• Excuse esmahlee

• Never mind la yahom

• Where do you live? aiyn taesh?• I live in … ana aesh fi …• What do you do? maa wathefatak?• I’m a student ana taleb• I want ana oreed• I don’t want ana la oreed• I like ana oheb• I don’t like ana la oheb• I have ana endi• I don’t have ana layes endi

Say the words and phrases on the right

• Hello مرحبا• Good morning الخير صباح• Goodbye السالمة مع• How  are you? حالك ؟كيف• Thank you شكرا• Yes نعم• No ال

Some Websites for learning Arabic

http://st-takla.org/Learn_Languages/01_Learn_Arabic-ta3leem-3araby/Learn-Arabic_00-index_El-Fehres.html

http://www.alrashidmall.com/learn-arabic.htm

http://help.berberber.com/learning-arabic/