Arabic Alphabet + Confusing Sounds + Song

[RSbasics]

well it's not hard .. people in middle east study that at first grade in school

[theonesource1]

Sound quality Low but useful none the less.

[anaallison]

very good job...very helpful... shukran

[waterskippers]

Very good video but the sound volume is way too low for the talking part.

[unclejohnthezef]

in song lyrics, they use numbers like nassam 3alayna el-hawa

men mafra2 el-wadi

can someone please tell me what english words sound like the symbols 2, 3, 5, 7, 9 in arabic transliteration?

[anaallison]

@unclejohnthezef

all i can tell you is 2 is alif letter3 ayn letter 5 is the kh letter 7 is the ha letter and i dont think there is a nine....hope this is what you if not let me know..you can either send me a message or write it here

[unclejohnthezef]

@anaallison thanks so much: your language is beautiful!

[187klrysinmalteasers]

Thanks for this, very useful. I'm having Arabic lessons, and if I like miss out one letter in the alphabet i lose it and can't do the whole thing which is really annoying. But th, the one that looks like a b with a dot on top, we don't say that, we say zoh. Where are you from? Our teacher comes from Lebanon, maybe that's why. . .

[vaguelyhumanoid]

@187klrysinmalteasers

Some dialects pronounce it as "thaa", others as "zaa".

[Maryammmm]

Jazak Allah. I'm a native english speaker and I also speak french, so i'm okay with using the "throaty r" sounds, but i'm not very comfortable with using "rolled r" in normal sentences. :)

[lailashreen]

thank goodness that i found this vidoe

[SaraxBella]

Thanks you so much!! This is the best video I have found for the alphabet

[ginabrowse]

This is really helpful. I find the d, D, DH, t, T, TH really hard to master. I can't roll my Rs either so it's pretty tough for me. This helps quite a bit though.

[pinkpumpkinn]

why are d and t hard..?

[IceinDark]

Lol nice Accent, this is nearly arabic,, I am arabic talker also, because I am egyptian

anyway keep it up man, good to make people know our language!!

[Elizabeth072707]

this is great, ty!

[africabatic2]

Almost a french accent. tjis would be very helpful for someone who is lelarnin from morocco

[ulverup]

north african accent

[Failed0Attempts]

Thank you, this is very helpful!

[tacofina]

I have to say something here. Whoever recorded the video did a great job, however he has a strong accent that is somewhat far from the standard Arabic pronunciation. It's clearly he is from morocco or north Africa. Your ta', jeem and dal are pronounced with noticeable affrication (just like the american T, J and D). Your Tha' is almost like a fa'. Your fat-ha and even your ghin sound like a french A and R, respectively. The song has much better pronunciation.

[lil0monster]

Oh, if only I had known about this video when I first started learning Arabic!!

This really does help though, repetition is the mother of learning...I'll just keep clicking play...

[musekluvr3]

This is very happy! Kareema from Hawaii

[mustafagtgt]

Hmmm maybe the strong pronunciations from the throat such as the 'full mouth' letters...sound similar to the Russian letters....but the others are different:)

[LuseYourName]

the best video for learning the alphabet! thanks :)

[80Rockerz]

wow very helpful

[nlitement]

Ayin's really weird.

And cheesemonkey, lol, Russian is my native language and I don't think you've gotten too far yet. Do you know the tens of different ways you form future tenses and around 5-7 different moods with arbitrary prefixes (vy/za/po/na/oba + sral, for example), imperfects and perfects in both the future and the past, animate/inanimate accusative in the male gender, distinct plurals for 1/2/3 objects (2 dnja), for others (6 dnej) and another plural form for uncounted amounts (dni).

[nlitement]

And I haven't even started yet, lol. But I'm glad you don't find it hard.. I wouldn't know how it's like to learn Russian from scratch, perhaps it's easy to you, who knows, but even I get confused sometimes-

[nlitement]

*Err.. I meant distinct plurals for 2/3/4 objects obviously, also, the word "year" depends on how many years you're talking about, one year is "odin god", two three four or any number whose pronunciation ends in two/three/four is "dva/tri/chetyre goda", the word for the rest changes completely to "ljet".

[makady]

oh, very dificult, my head will exploit!!!

XD

[1Yaron]

There is a little mistake in this tutorial, Arabic lacks the "O" vowel, instead Arabic uses "U"/"OO", kinda misleading, you might want to fix that...

[xpsal]

How do you say it's misleading when you don't have an alternative? U/OO is that what you suggest? what's wrong with O? I think that's just pointless criticism, thanks for the video!!!

[1Yaron]

That's not pointless at all, you understand the language and you probably can tell the difference but those who can't understand Arabic may think this is the correct form of pronunciation, I wasn't attacking at all... I'm simply making this issue more clear...

[Maryammmm]

So is it like, there's no "oh", it's more "oo" as in.. "too" and not as in "joe"?

[spongebobfan24]

thanks this really helps.

what is being said at the end of the song after the letters?

[toxicangel2006]

they are singing all the arabic word, that s all?be carful on this vedeo he did not mention the the sound of letters are dirent to spell for instane the word" B" in arabic pronouced "ba'on" .

[ptmona]

they say hazi horofol heja'a which means: these are the letters of Alphabet :)

[papasitoman]

I was going to comment that your letters are backwards until.... LOL. Great video! Thanks!

[JasmineAbdelfattah]

This is gr8 video to show to my class cuz they have hard time to learn this and maybe this will help

[g00dguys]

is the person who made this vid go to egypt where I am? (im american)

[khalid622]

great video!

thanks!

[littlesbiggies]

ELLE EST TRES BIEN

[skylamp44]

i m beginging to learn arabic, i find this very helpful.

[cheesemonkey421]

I take russian in school, its a lot easier than people think. But arabic isn't even indo-european....but I want to learn it. It'll be challenging but cool. Also, it is a major language, but very different than English. I can't wait to start learning.

[LeMegasandwich]

Thank you, your site I use often, it is great

[BritishSteel87]

Impressive, priceless, this is soooooo helpful

[theesnowman]

hearing the differences is really helpful as I am starting to learn Arabic. Thank you for these videos I cant wait for more of them.

[technicalectasy]

thank you very much!

[ithinkyourcraziertha]

thankyou for helping me learn Arabic

it is a blessing from god

[MarinkaFarouk]

Very helpful!Thank you

[lotfi2000]

INCREDIBLE VIDEO...YOU ARE GREAT !!!

[didetbrown]

this has been very helpful, also the video with the phrases and your webpage speak7 شكن جزيلا

[KatariinaNV]

Ohhh thank you for this video :). I decided that I'd like to learn some Arabic to understand music that I listen/dance to better.

This is VERY helpful. The alphabet song is really cool too :D!

[hibatchi]

I've made some new Iraqi friends and I've been looking all evening for online lessons that suit my learning style; this is the best by far! Thank you.

[nuapurista]

omg that ayn sound is so impossible! someone please help!

[Zaharkina]

thank you , thank you , thank you .

this is priceless.

[in2dirt]

i love this clip

I can feel something like a linguistic pattern.

arabic prononciation sound like Russian

m i right?

[cheesemonkey421]

no, not really. I don't know much about arabic, but I take russian in school.

Actually, french and german probably sound more similar because that have throat sounds. But this doesn't sound like russian. ('cept for rolled Rs) Most westerners, especially on this side of the atlantic (America) don't know much about russian. It's actually pretty easy grammatically (for example, all infinitive forms of verbs (ex: to play, to run) end the same way. So you know it's a verb, so its easy to understand)