Is everyone aware of Groupon? The amazing group deal-a-day as an individual? I bought one for language classes last summer when I first moved here, to have something to do and maybe meet people. I ended up always having something to do and kept deferring it until it was about to expire! So my first Arabic class was last night.
Talk. About. A. Headache. Our entire book is solely the Arabic alphabet and sounds. There are 28 consonants in the Arabic language, and 14 accent marks to place above or below that denote the vowel to follow. Not to mention, the letter has a different shape depending on if it comes at the start of a word, in the middle of the word, or at the end of the word. Yikes! "Alif Baa" is the name of our book and it means "A B" (as in the first two letter of the alphabet).
Assalaam alaykum!
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