The Biggest Differences Between ARABIC and ENGLISH letters sounds numbers and more

In this video, we're going to learn the biggest differences between Arabic and English with special focus on Levventine Arabic. guarantee you this will be fascinating whether you're learning Arabic or you're just curious. So, let's begin. Number one, direction of writing. English is written left to right while Arabic is written right to left. And this is not just about the direction of writing, it also affects layouts. So, for instance, in English, we're used to opening book this way. In Arabic, it would seem backwards because we would open the book this way. Even some apps change their layout for Arabic. Number two, in Arabic, letters connect but not all of them. Arabic is written in connected cursive style, but not all letters connect to the following letter. For example, dra and don't connect to the letter that comes after them. So, word might have breaks in it, which is totally normal in Arabic. For instance, the word bread is all connected. However, the word for rice ro is all disconnected. Number three, letter shapes change with position in Arabic. In Arabic, letter can have up to four different shapes depending on its position in the word. In English, the letter always looks like the letter with the exception of lowercase and capital, but we'll get to that later. But in Arabic, the letter or can have four different shapes depending on its position in the word. So for instance, if appears at the beginning of word, it will look like this. It will look like this in the middle, this at the end, and this if it's isolated. Number four, there are unique sounds in both languages. People often think that Arabic is the only one that has unique sounds, but English also has sounds that Arabic doesn't have. So let's start off with Arabic. Here are some of the sounds that Arabic has that English doesn't. First off, we have or which is letter formed deep in the throat. Then we have its counterpart or which is similar to the in French or is deeper sound. Is also very deep throat letter. Then we have Ha which is kind of like an but is also pronounced deeper in the throat. Then we have series of emphatic consonants that are pronounced with tension in the tongue. These are and We also have letter called hems, which is glottle stop. And you can actually kind of find this in English, but it's not letter in English. It's kind of like the sound in the middle of in English or also how some people in English drop te's. So instead of saying eat, they might say eat. And it's kind of that ending gaule stop that makes the hems sound in Arabic. Conversely, English has some sounds that Arabic does not. One of the most commonly known ones is There is no in Arabic. There's only sound. There's also no in Arabic. So sometimes that might be replaced with an sound. There's also no sound in Arabic when we're talking about MSA. However, there is sound in Egyptian Arabic and it's what sets it quite apart from the other dialects. There's no NG sound like at the end of sing, so in Arabic. There's also no sound like at the end of box in Arabic. Although, will say if you put the letter and scene together, it kind of sounds like an in Arabic. So, it's pretty similar. Do you want sciencebacked method to learn Levventine Arabic or any new language? Then use my link to get 7-day free trial of Pimpsler, the app and website that gets you speaking naturally through real life conversation practice without having to study or memorize. You can learn on the go in just 30 minutes day. Using my link, you can get 7-day free trial and start learning Levventine Arabic, or as call on Pimpsler, Eastern Arabic. I'll have the link here and in the description box. They also offer MSA and Egyptian Arabic. If you end up using it, comment down below to tell us about your experience. And now let's get back to the differences between Arabic and English. Number five, diiocritics. Arabic uses diiocritics or haret to indicate short vowels and pronunciation cues. These small marks can change the meaning of word even if the letters are the same. And in some cases, it's the only difference between the masculine and feminine version of word. So watch out for that. So for instance to say how are you to male you would say where there is fat on the but for female you would say where there is kas on the and that's the only difference number six phonetic nature. Modern standard Arabic is almost entirely phonetic. Once you learn the sounds you can pronounce any word as it's written. English by contrast is full of irregularities. Just think about the words phone and through. They're not pronounced as they're written. Now, even though Levventine Arabic doesn't have full standard writing, it still follows somewhat predictable sound patterns. So, although some things are not pronounced as they are written, there's still some predictability in that. For instance, written the might change to in speech. For instance, the word for ice is written as but it's pronounced as tel. The word for lot is spelled as but it's pronounced as. There's also the letter which is changed to hea sound or glottle stop in speech in some Leventine dialects. Not all of them though. For instance, the word for heart is written as but it's pronounced as el. Number seven, gendered nouns. Arabic nouns are either masculine or feminine and yes even inanimate objects which is not true for English. So things like bread and table will have gender in Arabic. Often feminine nouns are marked by ora at the end of word in Arabic. But not all feminine nouns have that ending. Verbs, adjectives, and even numbers have to agree in gender in Arabic. If that wasn't complicated enough, there's unique feature in Arabic grammar where non-human plurals will use singular feminine grammar. For instance, to say the cars are fast in Arabic, we would say instead of saying where is the feminine plural version. So, we're always going to use the feminine singular version for non-human plurals. All right, guys. We're getting there. We're at number eight. There's difference between number order in Arabic and in English specifically with the ones in 10 place. So in English we say 22 where we have the 10's place that comes first and then the ones place. But in Arabic it's reversed. We say two and 20. In Arabic it's so the ones place comes before the 10's place. And this is only in speech, not in writing. So this continues up until 99. But once we get to 100, the logic partially reverts back to the English logic. So 122 in Arabic would be 100 and 2 and 20 or so. The hundred's place is in the correct order, but still the ones and 10's place is switched. All right. And our last one is number nine. And this is going to be quick one. There are no capital letters in Arabic. So there's one less thing to worry about. And those are some of the biggest differences between Arabic and English. hope this video was interesting and you learned lot. If you're new, don't forget to subscribe. teach Levventine Arabic on my channel. If you like the video, give it thumbs up and comment down below your thoughts. And I'll see you in the next video. salam.