Arabic is the language of a large part of our planet . It is one of the permanent langua ges of the UN.
These are a few very basic learn to read the alphabet lessons. You may freely copy these lessons for non-commercial uses . The words are mostly in English so you can more easily recognise the shape of the letters.Write to us to let us know if you find the lessons useful and if you spot any mistakes.
Arabic is written in the opposite direction from English , i.e. from your right hand towards your left one . In are two letters "sh" as in shame and "n" as in name. The Hindi *****alent is given alongside . Hindi Lessons.
Each letter is written in four forms . if 'Sh' comes in the beginning of a word it is
it will be written as
if in the middle it will be written as
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if it is written in the end it will be as this
and if its own then you will writ it like this
From the figure below one can see that it is easy to spot the four forms of each letter. The detached form and final form look very similar . The inital and medial ones have the final bit of a letter left out . Arabic has its own built in shorthand !
These are the four forms of Sh and N marked detached , initial , medial and final
Supposing we wanted to make a word beginning with Sh and ending with N ( eg to shun somebody) we take initial form of Sh and final form of N to make shn
Now follows the whole Arabic alphabet with the closest English *****alent
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