LESSON 1- الدَّرْسُ الأوَّلُ

Exercise 3

 

  • We have practised reading words and learning phrases and grammar.  However, it is very important to learn how to write Arabic while you are learning the language.   Please read the sentences below and write them down on a piece of paper.  You have already learnt what the sentences below mean in the earlier part of the lesson so try to remember what they mean also.
     

  • In Arabic, more experienced readers do not require the vowel-marks or diacritical marks to read the word.  We have started lesson 1 showing all the vowel-marks, for example  بَيْتٌ (house) where we can see the fatha, sukun and damma.  However, with experience, we know from a combination of the letters used and the context of the sentence what the word actually means.  Below, the words will appear without vowel-marks or diacritical marks (e.g. sukun, fatha, kasra etc).  Hence, the word will be written in Arabic as   بيت.

Please click on the words or pictures to hear speech, i.e. how the words

should be pronounced.