Arabic Reading and Writing Lesson 1 the Arabic Alphabet and Vowel Sounds

assalam alaikum my dear Arabic Learners welcome to the first lesson of my Arabic reading and writing course before we start I'll give you simple yet profound piece of advice let go of the pressure trying to memorize meanings right now this course is designed to build solid foundation in recognizing Arabic letters understanding their visual representation and grasping the sounds they produce so as we start urge you to focus only of the visual forms of these letters and the sounds they carry you ready let's Dive Right In let's start with the short vowels in Arabic the short vowels are not written as individual letters they're actually marks placed on or below letters these marks are called harat one more timeat harat in Arabic literally means movements they give some sort of movements to letters let's look at the first one is little Dash or line placed above letter it gives sound this is fat where do we place it above letter correct above letters what sound does it make makes the sound let's try it with this first letter this is repeat after me with on top reads it's very easy let's take another letter this is let's put on top of it what do we get yes nah say it out loud na okay so we got ba na ba na dma is the short vowel that makes the sound let's take the letter and put dma on top what sound do get read with me bu how about this one do you recognize this letter with dma on top of it it becomes no no correct now let's read together what's this bu Bo no no no no there's actually football player named Bono he's the goalkeeper of the Moroccan football team hi Bono okay moving on KAS is little Dash placed below letters Kasra Kasra it gives the sound okay so let's see the letter with Kasra below it it becomes correct now with Kasra ni ni great effort so far now let's look at the letter this is the letter let's put on top of it what do we get sa correct let's put dma on top of it dma gives the sound what do we get so correct so now with Kasra with Kasra makes the sound yes great job so we've learned fat makes the sound it's placed above letter the ma is little curve that is placed above letter it gives the sound and Kasra is the little Dash below letter it gives the sound now let's look at sukkun suun indicates the absence of vowel sound it's little circle that we place above letter sukun sukun literally in Arabic means silence or no movement it's stop with suon how about with suon let's try it with with suon great job now let's look at this little Mark above letters it's called sh sh it's for stress when you put sh on top of letter it indicates the doubling of the letter sound for instance let's take the letter with it becomes if we add sh sh on it it becomes it's like we stress it we double the sound okay how about with is if we add sh we double the sound it becomes so now will give you the sound and you tell me what's the name of the short vowel the har that makes the sound ready okay what's the har the short vowel that makes the sound what about dma correct dma we place dma above letters now what's the name of the short vowel that makes the sound correct CRA what do we call this little circle above letter it's called Su it literally means silence or no movement it indicates the absence of vowel sound so what is the name of the mark that we use to double the letter sound or to stress it it's sh sh repeat after me sh good job now let's learn the different letters and learn how to read them with those different harat with those different short vowels this is the letter repeat after me with fat on top reads with dama bu repeat after me Bo with CRA withon this is the letter repeat after me with with to to with casra withon again to bu this is the letter with with dma come on repeat after me out loud with Kasra key key with suon this is the letter repeat after me with ra with with casra with suon Co Key this is read with me RA do you recognize this letter yes let's review this letter to do you recognize this one we've got Co Key very nice how about this one it's come on Read With Me now the letter we've got ma mo Mi this one is the letter with how do we read it La good with now with Kasra how do we read it withon very good remember this letter it's ma mo me Co ke to ba bu remember this one LA Le now let's read together out loud ra ra la la good job now let's try all these letters with dma let's go from the top bu Bo to to Mo great job everyone now let's review all the letters with Kasra ke ke me me Le Lee now with sukon we've got great job everyone recommend that you watch this video many times until you memorize all the letters that we have learned so far don't get overwhelmed inshallah we're going to do it one step at time and promise you inshallah you will be great at reading and writing in Arabic that was all for me today happy learning everyone asalam alaykum