I start learning Arabic

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Hello,

I start learning Arabic from scratch. I start learning the alphabet, and then will start to decifer my first words. It seems quite a difficult start.

I found this website from which I listened to the alphabet:

I used the following lesson to LingQ the letters:

Who else is starting and has some advice to share?

Silvia

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if you need any help i will be happy to help you :slight_smile:

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Well, I run immediately into problems. I open the second lesson:

It adds the short vowel marks to the alphabet, alass, when I open the Alif with the little stripe /Fatħah/ above the letter, I see my LingQ of the plain Alif. The same for the third letter in this lesson. However, for the second letter, I could create a new LingQ.

Could Support comment into this why this does not work properly?

Thank you so much,

Silvia

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Hi Silvia,
first you should know that the Arabic content in this website is “Beta” that is mean it is not complete and need to enhance it,

so you will face a lot of problems like that especially with the translation

about the problem that face you , i think that the system of the website dose not work well with “Strips” /Fathah/ , explain more what you didn’t understand in this lesson then i will explain the whole lesson :slight_smile:

finally a suggest this website it is fantastic , http://www.salaamarabic.com it will help you so much

here all thing about the Vowel in Arabic http://www.salaamarabic.com/lesson/1495/en

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Arabic is only a beta language in Lingq. This means it is not supported.
Lingq is ( at the moment!!!) not able to read the vovels in the arabic script.
I hope one day in the futur…:wink:

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Hi jolanda
you can learn Arabic from here http://www.salaamarabic.com/

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Thank you Readone and Jolanda! A pity that the vowels are not supported.
A question to Jolanda: what is your experience learning Arabic? What did you do in the beginning and how did you get along?

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Hello Silvia,
I have started long ago. Now I’m pre-Intermediate. I can practice with you if you liked.

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The fact that LingQ does not support the vowels makes it useless for a beginner at least. I now start to learn to read using this website:

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I don’t know much of Arabic but I’ve been learning Persian, which of course uses a variation of the same “alphabet” (technically “abjad”).
My advice is that you learn how to write it and practice writing, first isolated letters, then words and short sentences.
I enjoyed very much this series of videos about the arabic abjad:

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I know only 12 letters now, at the moment I am watching the videos from:

which I find very helpful. I still have to be patient before I can start to read and listen real texts.
I am also still struggling to recognise those little characters. I have to change the font size to 20 in order to distinguish the forms correctly. Do other beginners have this problem as well? Can they now read the small characters correctly?

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Oh, yes, it happens. I think one factor is that people used to the script tend to recognize the general shape of words, so they don’t rely so heavily on spotting every single little “dot” under/above the signs, as beginners do.