Lesson Two

[Abuz Zubair]

Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim<o></o>
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In this lesson, we will learn how to join letters together.<o></o>
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The following table shows how to join each Arabic letter to another<o></o>
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Starting from the right, the table shows: <o></o>
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1) the original shape of the letter on its own, followed by;<o></o>
2) the shape it takes when it joins a letter to its left only, i.e. the letter itself being the first letter of the word, joining the second letter;<o></o>
3) then the shape it takes when joined from both ends, i.e. the letter occurring in the middle of a word;<o></o>
4) then the shape it takes when joined only from its right, i.e. the letter occurring at the end of a word<o></o>
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ا -××× - ××× - ـا<o></o>
ب – بـ - ـبـ - ـب<o></o>
ت – تـ - ـتـ - ـت<o></o>
ث – ثـ - ـثـ - ـث<o></o>
ج – جـ - ـجـ - ـج<o></o>
ح – حـ - ـحـ - ـخ<o></o>
خ – خـ - ـخـ - ـخ<o></o>
د - ×××- ×××× - ـد<o></o>
ذ - ×××- ×××× - ـذ<o></o>
ر - ×××-×××× - ـر<o></o>
ز - ×××-×××× - ـز<o></o>
س – سـ - ـسـ - ـس<o></o>
ش – شـ - ـشـ - ـش<o></o>
ص – صـ - ـصـ - ـص<o></o>
ض – ضـ - ـضـ - ـض<o></o>
ط – طـ - ـطـ - ـط<o></o>
ظ – ظـ - ـظـ - ـظ<o></o>
ع – عـ - ـعـ - ـع<o></o>
غ – غـ - ـغـ - ـغ<o></o>
ف – فـ - ـفـ - ـف<o></o>
ق – قـ - ـقـ - ـق<o></o>
ل – لـ - ـلـ - ـل<o></o>
م – مـ - ـمـ - ـم<o></o>
ن – نـ - ـنـ - ـن<o></o>
ه – هـ - ـهـ - ـه<o></o>
و - ×××-×××× - ـو<o></o>
ي – يـ - ـيـ - ـي<o></o>
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</o> If you notice, all of the Arabic letters successfully join other letters except six:<o></o>
ا -××× - ××× - ـا<o></o>
د - ×××- ×××× - ـد<o></o>
ذ - ×××- ×××× - ـذ<o></o>
ر - ×××-×××× - ـر<o></o>
ز - ×××-×××× - ـز<o></o>
و - ×××-×××× - ـو<o></o>
These letters are called disjoint-letters.<o></o>
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The way to remember these letters is that they are all of the same shape, i.e.:<o></o>
د<o></o>
…except, of course, Alif.<o></o>
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The only way of learning this, as is the case with other things in any language, is practice.<o></o>
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You are expected to practice joining letters once a day, even if it be for 5-10 minutes.<o></o>
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On the internet, though, as part of our practice, please write up to ten words that you know in Arabic!<o></o>

[Umm Ahmed]

Wa alaykum as salaam

Jazak Allah Khairan

احمد aHmed
باذنجان badhinjan -eggplant
جمل Jamal - camel
شمس shams - sun
عبدالله Aabdullah
نافوره nafoorah -fountain

قاموس Qamoos- dictionary

خور khor - creek

صندوق Sandooq -box

ليمون leymon -lemon

[Abuz Zubair]

This is excellent, I think we should all share whatever words we know with each other, for that will certain increase our vocab as we go along...

wasalam

[ibn 'abd al-jabbaar]

السلام عليكم

these are ten words i know (ar: هذه عشرة كلمات الّتي أعرفها - is that right? can i say 'alamu instead?)

غير - other than
أصفر - yellow
خبر - report
مثل - similar to
درس - lesson
جديد - new
غريب - strange
أمس - yesterday
غداً - tomorrow
قديم - old

[Umm-Layth]

1. مسلم - Muslim
2. جد - jaddu
3. أرنب - arnab
4. جلباب - jilbaab
5. خطأ - khata'
6. طعام -ta`am
7. قرأن -Qur'aan
8. حب - hubb
9. شجرة - shajarah
10. خبز - khubz

[Umm Ahmed]

جدار=jdar wall

سقف= saqaf ceiling

سياره= sayarah

محفظه= miHfDhah wallet

جدول=jidwal timetable or stream

ستاره=sitara curtains


أصابع= aahsabaah fingers

I am getting the hang of the writing the arabic, but the translit is the most difficult part for me . alhamduhlilah and inshaAllah I will improve.

[Umm Ahmed]

Can we move on then to the next part InshaAllaah.

[Skillganon]

These are not words, I Just installed arabic support on Win98 (phew) اصغ هس فاث صقهفهىل سخ سةشمم, why is the writing so small?