How to correctly pronounce the Arabic Alphabet by a native speaker

[PennyLester]

Thank you so much. This video has helped me a lot. I'm studying Arabic and was struggling with the pronunciation of the letters you mentioned. Very helpful.

[DooDy88Denisa]

شكراً ,,

جزاك الله خير ,

[ejerej5]

Wow! "Kh" is also pronounced as the Afrikaans "g"! This is awesome! Arabic should be easy for me!

[11tall66]

how do you pronounce 'jamaal'??

[thelaughingguitar]

D'ad and 'ayn are probably the hardest letters to pronounce in Arabic.

[hikku9013]

Great video and by the way you look so cute!

[mikesherwood74]

Thank you!

[MultiLulu1968]

I'm spanish, but I like how you explene the lessons its claire for me. Even do Im not fine in english. Congratulationes.

[spaaceful]

i think the H sound is similar to when your trying to smell your breath 

[Babykittyjade7]

This video helped me alot!!!! thankyou so much!!! ^.^

[razor247ex]

i like the accuracy. thanks!

[art3toxic0]

I knew it wasn't pronounced 'A-Rab'

Thanks for the vid!

[jookieapc]

I thought ظ was pronounced ظا not ظاد. Can it be said both ways?

[bluebell264]

Thank you for this video, I had no idea I was pronouncing the letters so wrong all these years

[Charlenejl]

How do pronounce th word "Arab" I say it goes like this -:-"AIR-RUB" but my sister says it's prnounced like this: "UH--RAWB". Who is correct? Or are we both correct?

[simply0saad]

@Charlenejl I, personally, prefer how your sister pronounces it, "UH--RAWB", because it sound more similar to the Arabic pronunciation of the word :)

[KimmehCharmeleon]

good video! it's so helpful, especially with ain lol.

[Farismm1]

jazak allah 5eer ya Saad, this is a very nice video. I'v never thought that one of my friends from high school would make a channel on youtube.

[amjad163]

You dint mention about saad and seen letters.... :(

[Hopplomakkus]

There's hope in learning Arabic!!!!

[Zoombini1090]

thank you very much. great video.

[Dalab2020]

Very interesting explanation. Thank you

[Shishnut]

Very good video! Finally I understood the Ain sound! Could you make some videos showing some words with Ain and Ghain so that it could be clear how they work on words? Maybe you could do another with emphatic sounds, like the one you suggested (which is great by the way), but with better sound. Thanks again!

[Shishnut]

You really answered all my questions, specially with the Ain sound. Could you make a video with words using that, so that we could see how it sounds with different vowels, etc.? That would be really useful!

[fassuma]

assalamu alaikum wr wb,alhamdulillah it 's a very nice effort n i learnt a lot from ur 3 videos.plz comeup with videos on tajveed n get abundant blessings from allah ta'la.iam eagerly waiting 4 ur videos

[trinakria1282]

Great video! But, can you do a video specifically on how to pronounce ayn and ghayn?

I really think these two, especially ayn, are the hardest to pronounce. I would like you to spend more time pronouncing them and explaining how to pronounce them.

I've also noticed in videos they say how to say the letter ayn, but don't show how it's pronounced in different words. Maybe you can come up with some words with ayn and go through their pronunciations as well. It would help!

Thanks!

[Paulwhoisvegan]

My Arabic Professor is sick, she's been out for 4 weeks! Luckily This helps me understand the letters

[tai8806]

This is so helpful. I have recently started to learn arabic and want to major in it, this video has made a big difference in my understanding different pronunciations. I there anyway you can upload a video for the pron. markers like fatah hamza and etc.

[simply0saad]

Thank you.

There is a rather short explanation and pronunciation of marks (short vowels) in my second video.

However, I don't understand what you mean by pronunciation on Hamza, could you explain what you mean?

[provocative09]

shokrein for the video mashallah alhamdulilahh it is very helpful and your teaching style is very precise to english speakers and have made learning arabic much easier for me asalaam alaikum

[simply0saad]

You are most welcome.

[786whoknows]

i liked this

good job =]]

I had to make an account just to comment on it.. why can't they have like a guess comment box

[simply0saad]

Well thank you, I feel flattered about you making an account just to comment :)

[nocturnecminor]

Jazaak'Allaahy Khayraa Br.,

Can you do the letters with the short vowels in shaa Allaah.

[simply0saad]

I will try to but I can't promise it will be any time soon though sorry.

[BarneyGumble8]

You're a legend mate. Your descriptions are very clear.

Thanks.

[simply0saad]

That is very kind of you, I just wanted to help out.

[emoclewotamgine]

Any more info on differentiating between short and long vowels/ when to write out a long vowel? great videos, keep it up

[simply0saad]

How far along are you with Arabic? because there is a system that words follow. ie

فَعَلَ is the most basic verb and it meant he done: so the past of do

so the doer of this action will be:

فَاعِلَ so this is a system that if you know by practice you can tell the difference between long and sort vowels. Although I find it easy to hear so if this doesn't help please tell me.

[sunflowerpotter]

This was so useful - thanks very much :-)

[simply0saad]

Sure thing :)

[HawleriKurd]

I don't know why u name the letters instead of only sounding them? because u should be talking to non Arabic speakers who better to concentrate on only sounding at the first stage..

By the way I don't know why I can't make a differenc form both (ض، ظ )? I know the r 2 different letters but wahtever I do they come out same !

[simply0saad]

I know what you mean but if I only pronounced the sound it would be too short in my opinion to hear the difference.

That is one of the most common problems even among native speakers where I'm from. The only tip I can give you is that with ظ you must stick the end of your tongue and kind of roll it on your top teeth to half way up of your front teeth. With ض however, your tongue must remain in your mouth and the tip would be touching the end of your front teeth. If this doesnt help let me know

[HawleriKurd]

Thank u very much, its a useful tip thou but practising it is a lot harder than pronouncing the English letter {P} by some Arabs....it needs a lot of practising but with an observation of a native speaker. Thanks for ur effort

[simply0saad]

You're welcome.

I think the difficulty for Arabs with P is that they don't realize that they are pronouncing it improperly.

BTW you might find this funny, even though I pronounce P in pepsi for example correctly when I'm speaking English, when speaking Arabic I would still pronounce it bebsi :D

[HawleriKurd]

Oh really? this is strange and I 've just noticed that we do the same in our language too as there r letters like (ث ذ ط ظ ص ض ) we don't have them so even when talking in Arabic most of us can pronoun most of them correctly but we use only {ت ز س} instead when talking in our language & using Arabic words

[simply0saad]

are you Persian by any chance?

[HawleriKurd]

No I am Kurdish from Kurdistan of Iraq, Persians don't speak Arabic although they used some Arabic words but they don't know they r Arabic

[1mdog1]

cool thanks

[simply0saad]

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