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!sت gnipyt m'I
I started my Arabic class on Tuesday and tonight's homework is to practice writing the alphabet, copying each letter over and over again for two lines. For the life of me I cannot write ت without making it look like I'm drawing lines and lines of happy faces. It's the "teh" sound! And it's happy teh see you! Teh heh heh!
srah - Wednesday, 23 August 2006 - 6:42 PM
Tags: arabic, in arabic, language
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srah - August 23, 2006 - 11:15 PM - ℓ
I like ش because it's all complicated, ك because where the heck did that squiggle come from (it's nothing like any of the other letters - it's like an S riding on a sled) and ي because it reminds me of TROGDOR. I'm only two days in so I haven't managed to memorize much yet but I like looking at the pretty alphabet!
Allison - August 23, 2006 - 11:22 PM - ℓ
Cool. Arabic is on my list of languages I'd like to learn &/or become more fluent in, including Japanese, French, and Spanish. (Or maybe I'll replace Japanese with Chinese.) Teh?
srah - August 23, 2006 - 11:26 PM - ℓ
I haven't learned the names for the letters - just the sounds they make. We're starting with consonants and the heavy vowels or strong vowels or long vowels or whatever they're called. The first one we learned was ا. Is that Alef? It doesn't have a squiggle yet, but I understand that once we put it into words, it may change shape altogether. Eep!
So cool! Let me know if you want a conversation partner! :)
I remember being a kid and thinking that teh looked pretty happy. I'm not sure if you've gotten to geem yet but we tell my niece Sara that it has the dot on its belly (so she can tell it apart from kha and hha).