Speak like an Arab h هـ a ء Sounds lesson 1

so the Arabic letters could be put in different order according to the place of their pronunciation this is where each letter comes from depending on your use of the vocal organs and as said last time in the introduction we are gonna be starting with the sounds produced by the glottis they come in the letters hat and hamsa and these two letters produce the sounds ha and these two letters are very much connected because they are produced in the same place and they are actually two sides of the same coin the hair can be bit challenging for those people whose mother tongue is French since they're not used to it but how is hat actually produced how is produced through letting gush of air through your vocal cords we also call it the vocal folds and it resembles the or the hair in English and as you can see in this chart for the vocal folds you can see when you pronounce the hair sound you will be basically opening your vocal folds and letting the air run through them it is much the same process that you make when you yawn here are some examples for the hair sound he'll occur he'll occur hood hood hood hood hint hint so as we've pointed out the hair is produced by letting the gush of air through the open vocal folds the Hamza on the other side is produced by closing your vocal folds so in sense it's the opposite action of the hair sound the sound is produced by the formed air behind your vocal folds and in order to understand the point here is chart for the vocal folds and and in producing the Hamza or the sound the sound is produced by keeping the air behind the vocal folds which produces the sound here are some examples for the earth sound the Hamza Finnair fin air Thun Thun Samir Samir as you've seen closing the vocal folds is the most important characteristic in pronouncing the hamsa but what happens if the hamsa is followed by hair what's gonna happen is small explosion of air because you have stopping the air and then releasing all of it at once liking the example hell hell you have stopping you have stopping of the air when you're pronouncing the hamsa then you're gonna let all of this at one time when you pronounce the hair sound here are some practice for the hamsa and the hair try to pronounce these words on your own and then compare them to my pronunciation hair ill gaff hey yeah ah-hoo here dab hair so this ladies and gentlemen is the end of this lesson if you liked the video please subscribe like and share the video for other people to learn from it thanks for watching and see you next time