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Learning Arabic

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Erin Grimm

Here’s a great video on reading and writing Arabic letters that I discovered. What I like about it is it identifies patterns of pronunciation based on marks that embellish a given letter. It also talks about typing and writing by hand (demonstrated by the “drawing” function in Microsoft Word. A student helps model the pronunciation exercises. According to some sources I have read it only takes 30 minutes to learn Arabic alphabet. However, the way the letters look changes based on context.

Here’s the second part of the video:

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Palestinian theologian Dr. Yousef Kamal AlKhouri, academic dean of Bethlehem Bible College, wrote about this project:

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