Lebanese Arabic Pronunciation Lesson

Hi everyone, I hope you're good. I thought I can come live to give you a nice free lesson. It's going to be, as usual, a Lebanese Arabic lesson. And when I say Lebanese Arabic, it means it's the Levantine dialect. The Levantine dialect is spoken in Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, and Syria. And it's one of the most widely spoken dialects in the Arab world. So if you choose to speak it, it's going to be a dialect that people will... generally understand okay so i thought i can do a pronunciation lesson for i would say beginners because a lot of times i get questions about but this is a lesson actually that that can be useful for everyone even if you're not a beginner because i always get questions about how to transcribe because usually when we're okay spoken arabic actually is not a language that is written in a standard way so there's no right or wrong way to write it And a lot of times when we're speaking it informally, when I'm typing a message to my friend or my sister or brother, any family member, we tend to use the Roman alphabet to write in Arabic. For example, if I want to say kelb, I write K-A-L-B in English and people read it kelb rather than writing the letter kaf in Arabic. and the lamb and then the bay okay so i have here uh some of the sounds that are not easy to pronounce in arabic okay so if you know how to pronounce these sounds and how to write them when you're transcribing and it means you can pronounce anything in arabic if you can pronounce these sounds okay and as i said even when it comes to transcribing there's no right or wrong way to write an actual word but uh I mean, people write them differently, especially when it comes to the Roman alphabet, but there is kind of a common way of writing it, okay? So I'm gonna start with this one, yalla, say out loud with me the whole time, hi everyone, yalla, say out loud with me all the time. So basically, do you see the, in reverse or in the correct way, tell me, I don't even know if you're seeing it, I think you're seeing it in reverse, no? Shoo guys! Is it in reverse? Let me know if it's in reverse. I'm gonna... I think it's in reverse, yeah. So I have to... I discovered it two days ago. I have to click reverse and then mirror. And then now you can see it, right? Yes. Okay. But I have to be sure to hold it this way. Okay. So basically, look. There is here KH. And the actual letter in English is this one. Is it difficult to hold it? now okay this is the okay and there is a dumb on it who who so in english i wrote k-h-u to actually represent that sound so it's not no it's who so basically for that that letter for the letter you can represent it as a kh a lot of times you will see people write a number five to represent the letter kh why do you Why do you think they write a number 5? Can you guess? Why do you think we can write a number 5? Anyone knows? It's something that has to do with something, about seeing visually. Chou? Yes, it actually looks like a number 5, but written backwards, right? That's why a lot of times people use a number 5 to represent that sound that doesn't exist in other languages. The sound doesn't exist in French, doesn't exist in English. So basically, when you're using the Roman alphabet, you have to create some letters that don't exist in English. Okay, so that's what... Whoops, one second. Wait, let me re-fix my tripod. Okay, so that's why people need a way to write the KH. So, KH. Yalla, say with me the sound KH. It's like a spitting sound. When you're spitting, you don't go like KH, KH, KH. No, you go KH, KH. You're clearing your throat, right? So that's why it's Kh, Kh, okay? Kh, say it with me. Now, this one has a KASRA under it. The KASRA. this little kasra under it is the sound so that's so that's why you see I wrote KH and E okay so before that I wrote because this has a and this gives the sound okay oh that's why I wrote kh which is the and then ooh here who okay so he as I said is the castra here this one here And this one is خ. The خ is with the فتح. This line here above the خ gives the أ sound. That's why KH together with the أ, خ. خ, okay? People struggle because if you're an English speaker, maybe you never pronounced خ in your life. You probably have pronounced the ك, but not a خ. That's why it's easier if you think about it as like a spitting sound, as I said. خ okay so say out loud with me who and he okay now hi everyone I love you too yeah I'm gonna comment later on so yeah this was the first one so if you know how to pronounce the hat you're one step closer to pronouncing Arabic in the correct way okay so who he and as I said you can either represented with a kh or you can represent it because like the number five because it looks the actual letter in arabic looks like a number five okay so that's let's try a couple of words so these are words i took from like these papers i took them from a standard arabic lesson but i tried to choose the words that are that are uh also pronounced in levitian arabic or lebanese arabic so one of the words is yes yeah let's say with me is it oh my god it's very it's very confusing the side of the okay this one is it or it's not right it's that's why it's written with a k h and also if okay and most of the most more than anything it requires people to be concerned assistant and you need a road map to learn it from a to b to c to d okay so there is a way to learn it so, sheep means sheep in English thank you sheep okay now the second word how do i pronounce it say with me yes or no is it correct? I'm gonna wait how do we pronounce the word? okay it's no is it what? hmm like a spitting sound is it yes okay خيار يعني cucumber so let's memorize some words take them as a bonus okay خيار يعني cucumber خروف خروف يعني sheep خروف so we're done with the first sound and we're done with the way we write it let's go to another sound another one I showed you the خ. Another one is maybe like maybe it's not even different from all the languages but I just chose to write it with a R It's just the letter R but the difference is that in Arabic we we we roll the R we say R We don't say R like Italians but we don't say R like you know in English okay it's a R so instead of like saying rabbit rabbit rabbit and we actually write it as an r because the letter r does exist in english so we don't have to create something else okay just keep in mind we don't we don't say we say for example so this one has a ru with a dhamma remember that tiny comma on the comma on the letter that's the u sound u so that's why when you have a r That's the letter R with the Dhamma so that's RU. Whenever there is a line above the letter that's the A sound. So that's why it's R And then whenever you have a line under the letter. see that little line under the letter so that's the e sound that's why here i wrote re re okay so it's ra ro re it's not ra ro re it's ra ro re i just have one word here which is rooh means go away rooh okay and rooh also means soul that's why if you want to pamper someone the person you love and you want to tell them oh my love we say my soul in Arabic and it's ROUHE okay ROUHE so ROUH in the masculine form if you're saying to someone go away ROUHE and if you want to say it to a girl go away you say ROUHE it's not ROUHE and it's not ROUHE like italians it's ROUHE okay so ROUHE and ROUHE but the word ROUHE also means SOUL it has two completely different meanings SOUL so When you say to someone you're my soul, you say روح. Or you can also say, like Cheese and Naps is saying, ياروح. You can add the word ي before. When you say ياروح, like oh my soul or hey my soul. It's not an informal word, by the way. You can say it to anyone in the street, any one of your friends, even in a formal setting, even if it's the queen, you can use ي before it, okay? ياروح, oh my soul. For now, just to memorize. Roo-hey, Roo-hey, my soul, you're my soul, you can use it to pamper your loved ones, okay? Roo-hey, so that's in terms of the pronunciation of the letter R, we are done, so we did the pronunciation of the letter K, by the way, those of you who are joining now and you didn't watch the beginning of this lesson, I always end up uploading the lessons to my YouTube page, where I have longer and much more intensive lessons than TikTok, and also on my Instagram, if you want to see that. so this lesson you will find it on my instagram globetrotter with arabic or on my youtube globetrotter with arabic so basically we did the pronunciation of the letter and how we write it in the roman alphabet we did the pronunciation of the letter which which we pronounce as a in arabic the next one yeah i'm choosing i'm trying to make it from the easiest to the more most difficult we have here g H E and the actual letter in Arabic is like a number three with a dot it's the name of the letter it's it's the letter rain rain I have a video on how to pronounce it but I'm gonna quickly repeat here so basically again this little dash under the letter what sound does it give is it the a sound or the sound or the sound tell me Shoo! A, U or I? There is a hint here. Yeah, I. So it's together with the rain, together with the rain, it's R, R, R I'm gonna tell you how to pronounce it in a second. So we represent that letter rain as a GhH. It's not a Gh It's a R It's the same place where you pronounce the Gh sound. Okay? Now I'm gonna explain in a second how to pronounce it, but let's go over again the short part of vowels that are on the letters there is a little dash now on top of the letter so is it the a sound the u sound or the e sound yes so that's the ra a sound so ra together and what about i'm gonna cover here what about this one what sound does it give a u or e the dhamma it's called the dhamma this one gives the u sound very good so together with the rain it's So say with me out loud. It's not. Okay. How do we pronounce it? If you have a glass of water. I don't have a glass of water here. Put some water. And try to gargle. When you gargle, you go. The water is in your throat. So basically, you're activating that part of your throat. That you use to actually pronounce the letter. Thank you. Merci. Merci. or elic, okay? So you're activating the part of your throat where you pronounce the letter R So try to bring a glass of water. Put a little bit, because when you put a lot, you start to choke, okay? So it's R, R, R, R, R, R That sound, R And if you add an E to it, it's R, R, R, R, R So if you're a French speaker, this is very easy for you because it's like the French letter R Okay, but some people can't pronounce this. By the way, if you can't pronounce it now or you've never pronounced it, it doesn't mean you will never be able to pronounce it. Think of it as something your body never tried, like biologically you never tried it, you never used that anatomy in your throat to produce these letters. But once you keep practicing, like when you go to dance, you learn to dance, right? One step after another. That's the same thing that applies when it comes to pronunciation. Okay, so some people, most of my students... Students who can't pronounce the ghain, they confuse it with the r. So basically look at the difference between the r and the gh. The gh is here in your throat. So as I said, you can gargle. Put some water and gargle. The r, your tongue here, is touching here. The top part of your teeth. And it's rolling. Okay? R R Your tongue is up. R whereas the you see my tongue is stable it's not even moving look I'm gonna exaggerate you see my tongue is not doing any actions when I'm pronouncing the letter rain that's the name of the letter rain so basically you you represent it with a gh when we're writing for informally to friends the only word that I have with me here is but in In actually Levantine Arabic, specifically in Lebanon, we don't, as I said, this I took it from my MSA lessons previously. So, in Levantine Arabic, we pronounce the A as a A. Ghhébé. Ghhébé. Ghhébé. Ghhébé يعني forest. Thank you, thank you, Michi. Okay? So, Ghhébé, forest. Say it out loud with me. Ghhébé. Ghhébé. Ghhébé. So, Ghhébé. Okay, and and and and and and and and and and and and and and he hugged me so how do you think I mean one of the ways as I said there's no right and wrong way to write the thing but how do you think you can write the word yes but if you want to write it with the Roman alphabet how would you write both in Arabic and Roman alphabet would you type it for me I'm gonna wait. Yes, Samra wrote it nice. غمارني. Okay, GhH. Okay, perfect. So we did the خ sound, which we represent as a KH or a number 5. We did the ر sound, which is the R basically, but we just roll it more in Arabic. We did the KH, which also, as I said, we represent as a number 5. And the GhH, which is the letter rain okay yalla we will move to the next one yeah before i move to the next one let me tell you something so i if you don't follow me on instagram you can do that because there sometimes i also go live and i upload longer lessons but mainly mainly if you want like intensive and more serious lessons i have maybe more than 350 videos on my youtube page so there you can go and like tiktok i use it for fun it's really fun to do the short experience expressions just phrases a word here and a word there and we talk about culture but if you want to learn like really intensively there are lessons on youtube something else i want to say if you want to learn any language in my opinion social media is very important nowadays because there is a lot of free material but at the same time there will always come a point where if you want to take your language learning experience to the next level and learn it properly you need a road map and that's why i have My 30-day Lebanese Arabic challenge courses, they come with a roadmap that takes you from point A to point B to point C, step by step. You're moving up in your learning procedure. So these are very, very intensive courses, the 30-day Lebanese Arabic challenge courses, i.e. Levantine. And there are levels all the way from absolute beginners to advanced. I have absolute beginners 30-day challenge, beginners 30-day challenge, general one 30-day challenge. Challenge 2, 30-day challenge and till the end. If you want more information, you can always leave a message under any of my videos or you can go to my Instagram, leave a message or I'm going to leave my email address under this video. You can always get in touch if you're interested in doing one of the courses. There are two types of courses, either 30-day challenge with my students live on Zoom or 30-day challenge pre-recorded courses if you need flexibility and they also come with Q&A sessions always. Okay, yes, all my channels have the same name, Ghlobetrot with Arabic, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. Yalla, let's go to, we're done with the R, and we will go to the number 7, which is the letter H. Look at the actual letter in Arabic. It does look like a number 7, no? That's why whenever we want to represent this letter typing informally or speaking, informally to friends and family we like to use a number seven or a lot of times people use just the regular H or a capital H again as I said there is no right and wrong okay personally when I'm speaking to my friends it's easier to type the H I do the H but with my students I always put the number seven so that I can teach the difference between the number seven ha and the H which is like hotel so before start pronouncing it let's remember these punctuations the short vowels the harakat we call them in Arabic this one is the Fatha and it has the a sound ah this one is the Kassera which is under the letter here and it's II the sound is II and this one is the little comma the Dhamma and it's the sound now this letter again my students struggle with it It's not as in hundred or hotel. It's a If I want to clean this, okay, let's say it's glass or my glasses. I'm not gonna go like And clean it no you really push the air out you go like And you clean and here there's my window I go like And I clean it And I saw someone who I saw a video on tiktok from a comedian. She's really funny and It's a good idea, she gave a very nice idea. Let's say you open... her name is... I just forgot now. So you open the can of coke, let's say, and you drink it, okay, and you go like... yeah that it's the sound it's not it's Maya yes Maya that's it she's the one she's a very funny comedian Lebanese go follow her so okay so together with the ooh it's who who it's not who ya'll say out loud with me mish who okay yalla olo ma'e this one not the word now okay yalla ba'ad mara again say it out loud and I'm exaggerating of course when I'm gonna speak Arabic I'm not gonna go like no but it's better to exaggerate now and then reduce it then not say it at all you see what I mean this one is which one okay I'm just gonna mix it up mix it up and say a sound and tell me if it's correct Actually I have to cover this. Right? This one is what? What? What is this sound? What is this sound? I'm going to cover it before I show you HOO? HOO? Right? HOO? HOO? Or no? No, not HAH? What is this? HEEE? Right? HEEE? Okay and this one Hi Hi or no Shoo It has a Dhamma What's this little comma doing? Hoo yes Hoo Hoo Hoo and hey and try to squeeze your throat when you're saying it like If it's difficult to put the E or A or U after it, first try to say the H and then add the other one like Okay, very good. I have the word You see A R F A R F A R F And then a number seven makes it A letter Whenever we have one syllable words, by the way, like حرف, حرف, they are a little bit difficult to pronounce. That's why we tend, even as native speakers, we tend to add a ا to them to make it easier to pronounce. Like if you say حرف, it's a little bit more difficult than حرف, حرف. Okay, حرف, حرف. So you're adding a ر here just because it's easier to pronounce. حرف. حرف يعني a letter, yes. But it's not. The letter that you're writing and sending to a friend. No, the letter of an alphabet. حرف. Okay? حرف. What's one very famous word we use with the ح? Thank you so much. I'm happy I helped. What's another very, very famous word we use in all the Arabic countries? Habibi, yes! And a lot of times you will see people write... You see, you're already writing it with an H Capital H, or even sometimes people write it with a lowercase h Or a number 7 All of them are okay to write Again, there is no right and wrong way of writing spoken Arabic Specifically when it comes to using the Roman alphabet or the numbers So I did a video before and I was talking about how we write the Roman alphabet Or we use... the english letters and some people are telling me these are not english numbers fine i know they are not like the origin is arabic numbers it doesn't matter as long as we're talking about how we're pronouncing what represents what letter we don't need to go into all these you know details that won't change anything okay so so far we did the kh or number five we did gh We did the normal R, R, and we did the number 7, which is the H. And here we have number 2. Number two is actually this Hamza, Hamza, it's the sound. But when it comes to Levantine Arabic, specifically Lebanese Arabic and also Levantine Arabic, a lot of times we pronounce the letter Qaf in standard Arabic, which is Qaf, the Qaf, like capital K. In Lebanese Arabic, we don't pronounce it. We pronounce it 99.9% of the times as a instead of a. For example, But except when it's like a very formal word or like proper noun for example Qatar is written with a cough in Lebanese. We don't say utter. No, we say Qatar because it's like it's Proper noun and formal words as well. Like yes Somebody wrote albi in standard Arabic. It's written with a cough call be call be in standard Arabic but in Lebanese Arabic we drop the pronunciation of the up and pronounce it and as a, albi, albi and that a number two as I said, the same number two represents that q which we pronounce as a a and it represents the hamza in Arabic, which is the a what's this a? let me talk about it it does actually exist in English, we call it a glottal stop but the difference is that in Arabic we see it also in the beginning of the word and at the end of the word like I always give this example do you actually say apple or apple Apple. What do you say? We say apple. There is a ə. Before you pronounce the word apple, you're actually saying ə, ə, ə, ə, ə, ə, apple. That's the glottal sound. That ə sound is a glottal stop. Now that glottal stop exists also in the middle of the word in Arabic and also at the end of the word. Before I give you some examples, let's try to put them with the sounds, okay? okay let's say I wrote I wrote to you B just a B how would you pronounce it Yalla you will not be able to say it it's just ba ba ba ba but if I write a B, A and then I put a number two after it. I'm not saying ba I would be saying ba-uh. Ba-uh. I like to exaggerate this now and exaggerate it with me as much as you can. Ba-uh. It's better to exaggerate than not to say it because some people just say ba okay it's ba the same if i wrote a bu it would be boo boo but if i write a bu and number two that would be boo here i wrote a number two followed by a a so it's a if it's now this number two a lot of times when it's at the beginning of the word like apple i like not i like to avoid it and i don't write the number two just to make it easier and less confusing to students for example my heart i can write it to a l b e but i like to remove it like here you sue wrote it a l b it's already obvious that it's a okay but when it's in the middle of the word or at the end of the word i actually prefer to write it like in this word i'm gonna cover the number two Hmm? We have MOU, M-O-U, MOU, and then we have T-A-M-A-R, MOU, TAMAR, MOU TAMAR, that's wrong. And by the way, this word means conference, but that's not how we pronounce it, because there is a number two in the middle, which is the HAMZA, which is this, this one here in Arabic. And actually we use a number two because look, in Arabic, this one, this one, looks like a little number two. That's why we represent it with the number two. okay so this one is I'm exaggerating nobody says okay we see tomorrow tomorrow okay but let's exaggerate better than not to say it at all okay tomorrow tomorrow are you saying with me out loud right right yes or no but if you keep on saying exaggerating with time it becomes Muqtamar and becomes softer of course okay Muqtamar means conference there is something very famous we eat for breakfast in Lebanon what is it hmm what It is bread, it has thyme inside, we put it in the oven, the guy in the bakery, he puts it in the oven like this. What is it called? We can eat it, it has also cheese flavor and it has the sound. That's all. yes okay look how yalla bb look how one one second yalla bb wrote manawoosh if we want to write it yes you're all writing it without the number two if we want to write it with the number two how would we write it in european like if i like jess haddad wrote manouche okay fine if i already know the word as an arabic speaker i will immediately know it's manouche right yes and if i don't know how to speak arabic it's good to put to your friends the number two so that you make it easier for them to actually pronounce the good not number three because that would be remember it's not the number I still didn't do the number three for today we're coming to the number three number two okay or manaish or as I said there is no right and wrong way of writing this okay so yes manoushe is pronounced differently in other Arabic I'm not sure in other Arabic countries if they say it differently in Lebanon we say manoushe when it's one it's just one manoushe or in general we can say one syllable can be like manoushe in general or more than one manoushe okay if I want If I'm going to buy more than one man'oushe, I say I'm going to buy man'oushe. I didn't specify how many. Okay? So maybe that's the difference. Man'oushe, man'oushe. In that case, I would write it M-N-E-2-I-S-H. Man'oushe. Okay? So, we did the number two represents the uh sound. Or the uh. in lebanese which is pronounced as a we did number seven which is the The number, we did number, we did GhH, which is the Gh, and we did the CH. Let's think about something to remember the sounds, okay? For you to remember the sounds. So far. The GhH, remember, just put a code next to it, gargling. You're gargling. That's how you can remember it. Number seven. Remember cleaning glasses. Make these notes so you don't forget. Number seven, cleaning glass. Okay? So, number seven, cleaning glass. GhH, gargling. Then you have the KH. What did I tell you, KH? What code did I give you to remember the KH? It's either a number five or a KH. It's a preference. It's the spitting sound. So. Make a note next to it, spitting sound. Okay? And number two, you can maybe write like a pause, because it's a pause in the middle of the word, like men-ou-she. Okay? Uh. It's a stop. It's a stop. Think of it right next to it, glottal stop. Uh. Uh. Okay? And we did the R, R, like a R Just right next to it, roll your R Okay? So you remember to really roll your R or in arabic now number three in my opinion the most difficult because most of my students struggle this with this one the most number three in arabic the letter is called it's not a it's this one has a fat on top this fat gives the a sound the a so the with the a will be say with me out loud and this number three looks very similar to the actual letter in Arabic you see just looking to the other direction okay this is the letter in Arabic that's why we like to represent it when we're writing with the Roman alphabet and we want to use numbers we write a number three because it looks very much like the Aya okay so yeah let's say together this one has a Fatha so it's not When I cover the number three, number three here, it will be a, but it's not, it's a. Okay, let's think of an angry dog. Dog, make a note next to the ayn. Angry dog. Not barking dog. You know when a dog goes angry and he goes like... That's the sound. Okay, that's where it comes from. Now, see? You're pressing, okay? If you're choking yourself, it's... okay if you press really you don't have to kill yourself but if you press really hard on your throat and you try to say ah but you can't you know it goes like ah okay so that's the ah and we represent it with the number three and a ah Okay, now, if you do this lesson, you will need a lot of water when you finish, if you're doing it out loud with me. This one is a kasra. It has the E sound because it's under the letter. So it's not E, no, it's A. Now, something that my students a lot of times do, they go A and then they add the E and it becomes A-E. That's wrong. It's immediately A going to the E, yes. But the more you practice it, the easier it is. Here it becomes, okay Kev? So it's AI, AI, not AI, no, not E, it's AI. Say with me Okay, I actually have another lesson on YouTube explaining all of this You can find that if you go to my page and you go to the playlist Arabic pronunciation I'm gonna upload this there as well and you can watch that one. So maybe if you do two different lessons There is always something you pick up. Okay different and something new you can learn So yeah, let's say with me I'm exaggerating no one in life ever says this okay but it's better to exaggerate when you're learning and then reduce it so hey hey hey for example hey it's not eat like you know when the celebrations are happening and in the West now they call it eat oh it's eat no it's not eat in Arabic it's a A'eid A'eid Even the name Omar In the west they call Omar's Omar No it's not Omar in Arabic Okay in English it's fine you can say Omar But in Arabic it's A'a'o Omar Omar Okay A'o'mar Omar Now this one was Da'i And with the Dhamma one second Let me pick it up With the Dhamma, what is it? A'u A'u A'a'u Okay? It's not A'a'u in life, but try it It's not A'a'u, it's A'u A'u So, A when it's A A'u when it's U And A'i when it's followed by an E Okay? Let's repeat them one more time before we try it with the words Which one is this? A, O, O, I. Sue. Thank you. A, O, or I. Angry dog, remember? Sue. I'm waiting. yes Sophia, good, not aah miss, it's aah aah aah aah, thank you, thank you so much, fuck sin, okay this one is it aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah or it has that little comma which is called the dhamma, shoo yes okay and the last one is with a dash under like tilted dash under the letter which is the kasra it gives the sound i'm not going to tell you so together with the ayn is it yes very good so for example i'm going to give you two options option number one alum Option number two, which one is correct? Alam, number one. Alam, number two. Which one? Aya wahde. Yes, number two is the correct one. عَلَم And عَلَم يعني flag. Okay? Flag. When it's a long A, عَالَم means people. You see? So, عَلَم عَلَم Flag. عَالَم means people or it also means the world. عَالَم Okay? For now, let's just learn flag today. عَالَم It's not أَلَم. You see, if I cover the number three and and pronounce it Alam, the meaning even will change and it will become a pen. Thank you. And it becomes a pen or a pencil. But it's Alam. Angry dog, remember. So this one, I'm going to pronounce two ways, you tell me which one is correct. I'm not going to exaggerate, so it becomes a bit more difficult. Okay? Number one, عناب. Number two, عناب. Which one? Again, number one, عناب. Number two, عناب. And it means grapes, yes. Yes, number one, عناب. عناب, عناب. بطير منيح. مش عناب, غلط. عناب, عناب. عناب. and i'm not saying no it's i'm exaggerating okay okay enough for today but before we go two things okay let's do a quick quick revision about how you're going to remember these songs and before i go again i want to remind you as i said before to those of you who just came in it's very nice to do tiktok lessons youtube lessons to try to teach yourself Arabic but at the end of the day if you want to learn properly and really learn the details of the language the grammar behind it the proper foundation it's very important to do it with a structure and for that I have 30 day Lebanese Arabic challenge courses and when I say Lebanese Arabic it's Levantine Arabic spoken widely spoken in the Arab world widely understood in the Arab world so if you master it you will be understood in any Arabic country so there are in this 30 day challenge I give you a roadmap, I give you a structure, and you know exactly what you will learn in day one and day two and day three and day four, all the way to the end of the third. 30-day challenges. So it's very important to have a roadmap and to have achievements and goals to achieve one after the other and after the other. So you actually really speak the language, okay? So there are courses all the way from absolute beginners to advanced. There are seven levels of courses and these are courses I do live with my students on Zoom and pre-recorded. People do them on their own because they need flexibility and they cannot do a lesson every day at the same time. But even if you're doing it on your own, there are Q&A sessions. so you won't be alone there you can ask your questions you can come ask your questions and my students who did it they know like they just text me on whatsapp i answer their questions i'm always there with them and i always nag them to do it and they are never left alone okay and to be honest with you after covid finished things started to change because people are going back to normal life went back to normal life and to work and it's becoming more difficult to do lessons at the same time every day that's why they're choosing the pre-recorded so i'm only opening ...classes whenever there's at least four students in class, okay? Yalla, before I go, let me quickly... I'm gonna check your comments later on, okay? And see if... If you have any questions, yalla, type them now. What was I gonna say? Yalla, just very quickly, how do we remember the sounds? Make in your head like an imagination, like a list, notes of five things to remember. Okay, the angry dog, which letter is it? Yalla, which letter is the angry dog? Which one? The next live lessons by the way will be from June 22 until July 21. Yes, let's go. So, angry dog number 3. Okay, the pause, the glottal stop. Think of also the apple. Do you say apple or apple? It's a, a, apple. So which one is that? The stop, the glottal stop, the pause. Yes, number two, very good. Cleaning glasses. Cleaning glasses, which one is it? Cleaning glasses. Yes, number seven, cleaning glasses. Then we have gargling. Which one is it? gargling I'm waiting, no, gargling yes gargling is not number 5 no, it's a which one is it? No, number 5 was the KH, optional gargling No, no, no, not the number five, no. Three people said number five, no. I'm not sure about six, no. No, I gave you something else, what? gh okay and we we spoke about the word rebe which is a forest rebe okay yeah write it down so I know you remember it now gargling is gh which one is the spitting sound remember the spitting sound what I'm gonna show you but I want you to type it first It could be the number five or number five could be possible or the KHS. Yes, correct. Okay. Yalla. I think that's enough for today. I hope you enjoyed it. Let me check questions. If you have questions, please type them now. So because there's so many comments, I don't know if I can. do you go live on a certain day or time? maybe I should be more organized in that I don't I just think okay I have time now let me go live okay but maybe maybe I should do it but if I if you if I if you miss the live it's okay I always upload I download it and I upload it to my youtube page or to my Instagram page globetrot with Arabic you can follow me there if you want okay yes the comments man whoo she did it Do you do one-on-one tutoring classes? For the time being, no, because I'm doing so many things at the same time. I'm creating courses. I do the 30-day challenge courses. I'm writing a dialogues book, which is coming soon, hopefully next month. It's been one year, I say next month, and I'm not organized about it. But no, this time, really, I want to finish it in one month. I'm doing a podcast, so many things. But hopefully, when things are calmer, maybe I go back to one-to-one lessons. But if... I say this to my students, people who do the 30 day challenge on their own, the pre-recorded, they can do the Q&A sessions and the Q&A sessions, honestly speaking, they are like one-to-one lessons because most of the time students don't even come to them, you know what I mean? Because the courses are very clear, they say. You know, I just give a compliment to myself. Okay, I picked up some in the Middle East when I was a teacher, but very little. Yeah, okay, why not? You can start learning. Thank you, thank you for all of you who are saying you like my lessons and all of that. Thank you so much. And if you want more information about the actual courses, I don't have an afford now as I said I'm not doing hourly lessons and if you want more information about the courses you can get in touch my email is charique at globetrotwitharabic.com I will type it under some of my videos or you can just go on click on my Instagram page and you will find the form. Thank you, thank you so much. And how many languages do I speak? I speak four and a half. Arabic, English, French, Armenian because I have Armenian roots. Thank you very much. And Italian, I tried to learn Italian like 10 years ago and I lost it, but I can manage to have a conversation. And I'm trying to learn Tagalog recently, just a few words, and I'm starting to understand how hard it is on my... students sometimes okay yeah I'm gonna go now and thank you for watching bye guys bye

And it's one of the most widely spoken dialects in the Arab world. So if you choose to speak it, it's going to be a dialect that people will... generally understand okay so i thought i can do a pronunciation lesson for i would say beginners because a lot of times i get questions about but this is a lesson actually that that can be useful for everyone even if you're not a beginner because i always get questions about how to transcribe because usually when we're okay spoken arabic actually is not a language that is written in a standard way so there's no right or wrong way to write it And a lot of times when we're speaking it informally, when I'm typing a message to my friend or my sister or brother, any family member, we tend to use the Roman alphabet to write in Arabic. For example, if I want to say kelb, I write K-A-L-B in English and people read it kelb rather than writing the letter kaf in Arabic.

and the lamb and then the bay okay so i have here uh some of the sounds that are not easy to pronounce in arabic okay so if you know how to pronounce these sounds and how to write them when you're transcribing and it means you can pronounce anything in arabic if you can pronounce these sounds okay and as i said even when it comes to transcribing there's no right or wrong way to write an actual word but uh I mean, people write them differently, especially when it comes to the Roman alphabet, but there is kind of a common way of writing it, okay? So I'm gonna start with this one, yalla, say out loud with me the whole time, hi everyone, yalla, say out loud with me all the time. So basically, do you see the, in reverse or in the correct way, tell me, I don't even know if you're seeing it, I think you're seeing it in reverse, no?

Shoo guys! Is it in reverse? Let me know if it's in reverse.

I'm gonna... I think it's in reverse, yeah. So I have to...

I discovered it two days ago. I have to click reverse and then mirror. And then now you can see it, right?

Yes. Okay. But I have to be sure to hold it this way. Okay.

So basically, look. There is here KH. And the actual letter in English is this one.

Is it difficult to hold it? now okay this is the okay and there is a dumb on it who who so in english i wrote k-h-u to actually represent that sound so it's not no it's who so basically for that that letter for the letter you can represent it as a kh a lot of times you will see people write a number five to represent the letter kh why do you Why do you think they write a number 5? Can you guess? Why do you think we can write a number 5? Anyone knows?

It's something that has to do with something, about seeing visually. Chou? Yes, it actually looks like a number 5, but written backwards, right? That's why a lot of times people use a number 5 to represent that sound that doesn't exist in other languages.

The sound doesn't exist in French, doesn't exist in English. So basically, when you're using the Roman alphabet, you have to create some letters that don't exist in English. Okay, so that's what... Whoops, one second.

Wait, let me re-fix my tripod. Okay, so that's why people need a way to write the KH. So, KH. Yalla, say with me the sound KH. It's like a spitting sound.

When you're spitting, you don't go like KH, KH, KH. No, you go KH, KH. You're clearing your throat, right?

So that's why it's Kh, Kh, okay? Kh, say it with me. Now, this one has a KASRA under it. The KASRA.

this little kasra under it is the sound so that's so that's why you see I wrote KH and E okay so before that I wrote because this has a and this gives the sound okay oh that's why I wrote kh which is the and then ooh here who okay so he as I said is the castra here this one here And this one is خ. The خ is with the فتح. This line here above the خ gives the أ sound.

That's why KH together with the أ, خ. خ, okay? People struggle because if you're an English speaker, maybe you never pronounced خ in your life.

You probably have pronounced the ك, but not a خ. That's why it's easier if you think about it as like a spitting sound, as I said. خ okay so say out loud with me who and he okay now hi everyone I love you too yeah I'm gonna comment later on so yeah this was the first one so if you know how to pronounce the hat you're one step closer to pronouncing Arabic in the correct way okay so who he and as I said you can either represented with a kh or you can represent it because like the number five because it looks the actual letter in arabic looks like a number five okay so that's let's try a couple of words so these are words i took from like these papers i took them from a standard arabic lesson but i tried to choose the words that are that are uh also pronounced in levitian arabic or lebanese arabic so one of the words is yes yeah let's say with me is it oh my god it's very it's very confusing the side of the okay this one is it or it's not right it's that's why it's written with a k h and also if okay and most of the most more than anything it requires people to be concerned assistant and you need a road map to learn it from a to b to c to d okay so there is a way to learn it so, sheep means sheep in English thank you sheep okay now the second word how do i pronounce it say with me yes or no is it correct? I'm gonna wait how do we pronounce the word?

okay it's no is it what? hmm like a spitting sound is it yes okay خيار يعني cucumber so let's memorize some words take them as a bonus okay خيار يعني cucumber خروف خروف يعني sheep خروف so we're done with the first sound and we're done with the way we write it let's go to another sound another one I showed you the خ. Another one is maybe like maybe it's not even different from all the languages but I just chose to write it with a R It's just the letter R but the difference is that in Arabic we we we roll the R we say R We don't say R like Italians but we don't say R like you know in English okay it's a R so instead of like saying rabbit rabbit rabbit and we actually write it as an r because the letter r does exist in english so we don't have to create something else okay just keep in mind we don't we don't say we say for example so this one has a ru with a dhamma remember that tiny comma on the comma on the letter that's the u sound u so that's why when you have a r That's the letter R with the Dhamma so that's RU. Whenever there is a line above the letter that's the A sound. So that's why it's R And then whenever you have a line under the letter.

see that little line under the letter so that's the e sound that's why here i wrote re re okay so it's ra ro re it's not ra ro re it's ra ro re i just have one word here which is rooh means go away rooh okay and rooh also means soul that's why if you want to pamper someone the person you love and you want to tell them oh my love we say my soul in Arabic and it's ROUHE okay ROUHE so ROUH in the masculine form if you're saying to someone go away ROUHE and if you want to say it to a girl go away you say ROUHE it's not ROUHE and it's not ROUHE like italians it's ROUHE okay so ROUHE and ROUHE but the word ROUHE also means SOUL it has two completely different meanings SOUL so When you say to someone you're my soul, you say روح. Or you can also say, like Cheese and Naps is saying, ياروح. You can add the word ي before.

When you say ياروح, like oh my soul or hey my soul. It's not an informal word, by the way. You can say it to anyone in the street, any one of your friends, even in a formal setting, even if it's the queen, you can use ي before it, okay?

ياروح, oh my soul. For now, just to memorize. Roo-hey, Roo-hey, my soul, you're my soul, you can use it to pamper your loved ones, okay? Roo-hey, so that's in terms of the pronunciation of the letter R, we are done, so we did the pronunciation of the letter K, by the way, those of you who are joining now and you didn't watch the beginning of this lesson, I always end up uploading the lessons to my YouTube page, where I have longer and much more intensive lessons than TikTok, and also on my Instagram, if you want to see that. so this lesson you will find it on my instagram globetrotter with arabic or on my youtube globetrotter with arabic so basically we did the pronunciation of the letter and how we write it in the roman alphabet we did the pronunciation of the letter which which we pronounce as a in arabic the next one yeah i'm choosing i'm trying to make it from the easiest to the more most difficult we have here g H E and the actual letter in Arabic is like a number three with a dot it's the name of the letter it's it's the letter rain rain I have a video on how to pronounce it but I'm gonna quickly repeat here so basically again this little dash under the letter what sound does it give is it the a sound or the sound or the sound tell me Shoo!

A, U or I? There is a hint here. Yeah, I. So it's together with the rain, together with the rain, it's R, R, R I'm gonna tell you how to pronounce it in a second. So we represent that letter rain as a GhH.

It's not a Gh It's a R It's the same place where you pronounce the Gh sound. Okay? Now I'm gonna explain in a second how to pronounce it, but let's go over again the short part of vowels that are on the letters there is a little dash now on top of the letter so is it the a sound the u sound or the e sound yes so that's the ra a sound so ra together and what about i'm gonna cover here what about this one what sound does it give a u or e the dhamma it's called the dhamma this one gives the u sound very good so together with the rain it's So say with me out loud. It's not.

Okay. How do we pronounce it? If you have a glass of water.

I don't have a glass of water here. Put some water. And try to gargle. When you gargle, you go. The water is in your throat.

So basically, you're activating that part of your throat. That you use to actually pronounce the letter. Thank you. Merci.

Merci. or elic, okay? So you're activating the part of your throat where you pronounce the letter R So try to bring a glass of water. Put a little bit, because when you put a lot, you start to choke, okay?

So it's R, R, R, R, R, R That sound, R And if you add an E to it, it's R, R, R, R, R So if you're a French speaker, this is very easy for you because it's like the French letter R Okay, but some people can't pronounce this. By the way, if you can't pronounce it now or you've never pronounced it, it doesn't mean you will never be able to pronounce it. Think of it as something your body never tried, like biologically you never tried it, you never used that anatomy in your throat to produce these letters.

But once you keep practicing, like when you go to dance, you learn to dance, right? One step after another. That's the same thing that applies when it comes to pronunciation.

Okay, so some people, most of my students... Students who can't pronounce the ghain, they confuse it with the r. So basically look at the difference between the r and the gh.

The gh is here in your throat. So as I said, you can gargle. Put some water and gargle. The r, your tongue here, is touching here.

The top part of your teeth. And it's rolling. Okay? R R Your tongue is up. R whereas the you see my tongue is stable it's not even moving look I'm gonna exaggerate you see my tongue is not doing any actions when I'm pronouncing the letter rain that's the name of the letter rain so basically you you represent it with a gh when we're writing for informally to friends the only word that I have with me here is but in In actually Levantine Arabic, specifically in Lebanon, we don't, as I said, this I took it from my MSA lessons previously.

So, in Levantine Arabic, we pronounce the A as a A. Ghhébé. Ghhébé. Ghhébé.

Ghhébé يعني forest. Thank you, thank you, Michi. Okay? So, Ghhébé, forest. Say it out loud with me.

Ghhébé. Ghhébé. Ghhébé.

So, Ghhébé. Okay, and and and and and and and and and and and and and and he hugged me so how do you think I mean one of the ways as I said there's no right and wrong way to write the thing but how do you think you can write the word yes but if you want to write it with the Roman alphabet how would you write both in Arabic and Roman alphabet would you type it for me I'm gonna wait. Yes, Samra wrote it nice. غمارني. Okay, GhH.

Okay, perfect. So we did the خ sound, which we represent as a KH or a number 5. We did the ر sound, which is the R basically, but we just roll it more in Arabic. We did the KH, which also, as I said, we represent as a number 5. And the GhH, which is the letter rain okay yalla we will move to the next one yeah before i move to the next one let me tell you something so i if you don't follow me on instagram you can do that because there sometimes i also go live and i upload longer lessons but mainly mainly if you want like intensive and more serious lessons i have maybe more than 350 videos on my youtube page so there you can go and like tiktok i use it for fun it's really fun to do the short experience expressions just phrases a word here and a word there and we talk about culture but if you want to learn like really intensively there are lessons on youtube something else i want to say if you want to learn any language in my opinion social media is very important nowadays because there is a lot of free material but at the same time there will always come a point where if you want to take your language learning experience to the next level and learn it properly you need a road map and that's why i have My 30-day Lebanese Arabic challenge courses, they come with a roadmap that takes you from point A to point B to point C, step by step.

You're moving up in your learning procedure. So these are very, very intensive courses, the 30-day Lebanese Arabic challenge courses, i.e. Levantine. And there are levels all the way from absolute beginners to advanced. I have absolute beginners 30-day challenge, beginners 30-day challenge, general one 30-day challenge.

Challenge 2, 30-day challenge and till the end. If you want more information, you can always leave a message under any of my videos or you can go to my Instagram, leave a message or I'm going to leave my email address under this video. You can always get in touch if you're interested in doing one of the courses. There are two types of courses, either 30-day challenge with my students live on Zoom or 30-day challenge pre-recorded courses if you need flexibility and they also come with Q&A sessions always. Okay, yes, all my channels have the same name, Ghlobetrot with Arabic, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.

Yalla, let's go to, we're done with the R, and we will go to the number 7, which is the letter H. Look at the actual letter in Arabic. It does look like a number 7, no? That's why whenever we want to represent this letter typing informally or speaking, informally to friends and family we like to use a number seven or a lot of times people use just the regular H or a capital H again as I said there is no right and wrong okay personally when I'm speaking to my friends it's easier to type the H I do the H but with my students I always put the number seven so that I can teach the difference between the number seven ha and the H which is like hotel so before start pronouncing it let's remember these punctuations the short vowels the harakat we call them in Arabic this one is the Fatha and it has the a sound ah this one is the Kassera which is under the letter here and it's II the sound is II and this one is the little comma the Dhamma and it's the sound now this letter again my students struggle with it It's not as in hundred or hotel.

It's a If I want to clean this, okay, let's say it's glass or my glasses. I'm not gonna go like And clean it no you really push the air out you go like And you clean and here there's my window I go like And I clean it And I saw someone who I saw a video on tiktok from a comedian. She's really funny and It's a good idea, she gave a very nice idea. Let's say you open...

her name is... I just forgot now. So you open the can of coke, let's say, and you drink it, okay, and you go like...

yeah that it's the sound it's not it's Maya yes Maya that's it she's the one she's a very funny comedian Lebanese go follow her so okay so together with the ooh it's who who it's not who ya'll say out loud with me mish who okay yalla olo ma'e this one not the word now okay yalla ba'ad mara again say it out loud and I'm exaggerating of course when I'm gonna speak Arabic I'm not gonna go like no but it's better to exaggerate now and then reduce it then not say it at all you see what I mean this one is which one okay I'm just gonna mix it up mix it up and say a sound and tell me if it's correct Actually I have to cover this. Right? This one is what? What?

What is this sound? What is this sound? I'm going to cover it before I show you HOO?

HOO? Right? HOO? HOO?

Or no? No, not HAH? What is this?

HEEE? Right? HEEE? Okay and this one Hi Hi or no Shoo It has a Dhamma What's this little comma doing?

Hoo yes Hoo Hoo Hoo and hey and try to squeeze your throat when you're saying it like If it's difficult to put the E or A or U after it, first try to say the H and then add the other one like Okay, very good. I have the word You see A R F A R F A R F And then a number seven makes it A letter Whenever we have one syllable words, by the way, like حرف, حرف, they are a little bit difficult to pronounce. That's why we tend, even as native speakers, we tend to add a ا to them to make it easier to pronounce.

Like if you say حرف, it's a little bit more difficult than حرف, حرف. Okay, حرف, حرف. So you're adding a ر here just because it's easier to pronounce. حرف. حرف يعني a letter, yes.

But it's not. The letter that you're writing and sending to a friend. No, the letter of an alphabet.

حرف. Okay? حرف.

What's one very famous word we use with the ح? Thank you so much. I'm happy I helped. What's another very, very famous word we use in all the Arabic countries? Habibi, yes!

And a lot of times you will see people write... You see, you're already writing it with an H Capital H, or even sometimes people write it with a lowercase h Or a number 7 All of them are okay to write Again, there is no right and wrong way of writing spoken Arabic Specifically when it comes to using the Roman alphabet or the numbers So I did a video before and I was talking about how we write the Roman alphabet Or we use... the english letters and some people are telling me these are not english numbers fine i know they are not like the origin is arabic numbers it doesn't matter as long as we're talking about how we're pronouncing what represents what letter we don't need to go into all these you know details that won't change anything okay so so far we did the kh or number five we did gh We did the normal R, R, and we did the number 7, which is the H.

And here we have number 2. Number two is actually this Hamza, Hamza, it's the sound. But when it comes to Levantine Arabic, specifically Lebanese Arabic and also Levantine Arabic, a lot of times we pronounce the letter Qaf in standard Arabic, which is Qaf, the Qaf, like capital K. In Lebanese Arabic, we don't pronounce it.

We pronounce it 99.9% of the times as a instead of a. For example, But except when it's like a very formal word or like proper noun for example Qatar is written with a cough in Lebanese. We don't say utter. No, we say Qatar because it's like it's Proper noun and formal words as well.

Like yes Somebody wrote albi in standard Arabic. It's written with a cough call be call be in standard Arabic but in Lebanese Arabic we drop the pronunciation of the up and pronounce it and as a, albi, albi and that a number two as I said, the same number two represents that q which we pronounce as a a and it represents the hamza in Arabic, which is the a what's this a? let me talk about it it does actually exist in English, we call it a glottal stop but the difference is that in Arabic we see it also in the beginning of the word and at the end of the word like I always give this example do you actually say apple or apple Apple.

What do you say? We say apple. There is a ə.

Before you pronounce the word apple, you're actually saying ə, ə, ə, ə, ə, ə, apple. That's the glottal sound. That ə sound is a glottal stop. Now that glottal stop exists also in the middle of the word in Arabic and also at the end of the word.

Before I give you some examples, let's try to put them with the sounds, okay? okay let's say I wrote I wrote to you B just a B how would you pronounce it Yalla you will not be able to say it it's just ba ba ba ba but if I write a B, A and then I put a number two after it. I'm not saying ba I would be saying ba-uh.

Ba-uh. I like to exaggerate this now and exaggerate it with me as much as you can. Ba-uh. It's better to exaggerate than not to say it because some people just say ba okay it's ba the same if i wrote a bu it would be boo boo but if i write a bu and number two that would be boo here i wrote a number two followed by a a so it's a if it's now this number two a lot of times when it's at the beginning of the word like apple i like not i like to avoid it and i don't write the number two just to make it easier and less confusing to students for example my heart i can write it to a l b e but i like to remove it like here you sue wrote it a l b it's already obvious that it's a okay but when it's in the middle of the word or at the end of the word i actually prefer to write it like in this word i'm gonna cover the number two Hmm? We have MOU, M-O-U, MOU, and then we have T-A-M-A-R, MOU, TAMAR, MOU TAMAR, that's wrong.

And by the way, this word means conference, but that's not how we pronounce it, because there is a number two in the middle, which is the HAMZA, which is this, this one here in Arabic. And actually we use a number two because look, in Arabic, this one, this one, looks like a little number two. That's why we represent it with the number two.

okay so this one is I'm exaggerating nobody says okay we see tomorrow tomorrow okay but let's exaggerate better than not to say it at all okay tomorrow tomorrow are you saying with me out loud right right yes or no but if you keep on saying exaggerating with time it becomes Muqtamar and becomes softer of course okay Muqtamar means conference there is something very famous we eat for breakfast in Lebanon what is it hmm what It is bread, it has thyme inside, we put it in the oven, the guy in the bakery, he puts it in the oven like this. What is it called? We can eat it, it has also cheese flavor and it has the sound.

That's all. yes okay look how yalla bb look how one one second yalla bb wrote manawoosh if we want to write it yes you're all writing it without the number two if we want to write it with the number two how would we write it in european like if i like jess haddad wrote manouche okay fine if i already know the word as an arabic speaker i will immediately know it's manouche right yes and if i don't know how to speak arabic it's good to put to your friends the number two so that you make it easier for them to actually pronounce the good not number three because that would be remember it's not the number I still didn't do the number three for today we're coming to the number three number two okay or manaish or as I said there is no right and wrong way of writing this okay so yes manoushe is pronounced differently in other Arabic I'm not sure in other Arabic countries if they say it differently in Lebanon we say manoushe when it's one it's just one manoushe or in general we can say one syllable can be like manoushe in general or more than one manoushe okay if I want If I'm going to buy more than one man'oushe, I say I'm going to buy man'oushe. I didn't specify how many.

Okay? So maybe that's the difference. Man'oushe, man'oushe.

In that case, I would write it M-N-E-2-I-S-H. Man'oushe. Okay?

So, we did the number two represents the uh sound. Or the uh. in lebanese which is pronounced as a we did number seven which is the The number, we did number, we did GhH, which is the Gh, and we did the CH.

Let's think about something to remember the sounds, okay? For you to remember the sounds. So far. The GhH, remember, just put a code next to it, gargling.

You're gargling. That's how you can remember it. Number seven.

Remember cleaning glasses. Make these notes so you don't forget. Number seven, cleaning glass.

Okay? So, number seven, cleaning glass. GhH, gargling. Then you have the KH. What did I tell you, KH?

What code did I give you to remember the KH? It's either a number five or a KH. It's a preference.

It's the spitting sound. So. Make a note next to it, spitting sound. Okay?

And number two, you can maybe write like a pause, because it's a pause in the middle of the word, like men-ou-she. Okay? Uh.

It's a stop. It's a stop. Think of it right next to it, glottal stop.

Uh. Uh. Okay?

And we did the R, R, like a R Just right next to it, roll your R Okay? So you remember to really roll your R or in arabic now number three in my opinion the most difficult because most of my students struggle this with this one the most number three in arabic the letter is called it's not a it's this one has a fat on top this fat gives the a sound the a so the with the a will be say with me out loud and this number three looks very similar to the actual letter in Arabic you see just looking to the other direction okay this is the letter in Arabic that's why we like to represent it when we're writing with the Roman alphabet and we want to use numbers we write a number three because it looks very much like the Aya okay so yeah let's say together this one has a Fatha so it's not When I cover the number three, number three here, it will be a, but it's not, it's a. Okay, let's think of an angry dog.

Dog, make a note next to the ayn. Angry dog. Not barking dog. You know when a dog goes angry and he goes like... That's the sound.

Okay, that's where it comes from. Now, see? You're pressing, okay?

If you're choking yourself, it's... okay if you press really you don't have to kill yourself but if you press really hard on your throat and you try to say ah but you can't you know it goes like ah okay so that's the ah and we represent it with the number three and a ah Okay, now, if you do this lesson, you will need a lot of water when you finish, if you're doing it out loud with me. This one is a kasra.

It has the E sound because it's under the letter. So it's not E, no, it's A. Now, something that my students a lot of times do, they go A and then they add the E and it becomes A-E. That's wrong.

It's immediately A going to the E, yes. But the more you practice it, the easier it is. Here it becomes, okay Kev? So it's AI, AI, not AI, no, not E, it's AI. Say with me Okay, I actually have another lesson on YouTube explaining all of this You can find that if you go to my page and you go to the playlist Arabic pronunciation I'm gonna upload this there as well and you can watch that one.

So maybe if you do two different lessons There is always something you pick up. Okay different and something new you can learn So yeah, let's say with me I'm exaggerating no one in life ever says this okay but it's better to exaggerate when you're learning and then reduce it so hey hey hey for example hey it's not eat like you know when the celebrations are happening and in the West now they call it eat oh it's eat no it's not eat in Arabic it's a A'eid A'eid Even the name Omar In the west they call Omar's Omar No it's not Omar in Arabic Okay in English it's fine you can say Omar But in Arabic it's A'a'o Omar Omar Okay A'o'mar Omar Now this one was Da'i And with the Dhamma one second Let me pick it up With the Dhamma, what is it? A'u A'u A'a'u Okay?

It's not A'a'u in life, but try it It's not A'a'u, it's A'u A'u So, A when it's A A'u when it's U And A'i when it's followed by an E Okay? Let's repeat them one more time before we try it with the words Which one is this? A, O, O, I. Sue. Thank you. A, O, or I.

Angry dog, remember? Sue. I'm waiting. yes Sophia, good, not aah miss, it's aah aah aah aah, thank you, thank you so much, fuck sin, okay this one is it aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah aah or it has that little comma which is called the dhamma, shoo yes okay and the last one is with a dash under like tilted dash under the letter which is the kasra it gives the sound i'm not going to tell you so together with the ayn is it yes very good so for example i'm going to give you two options option number one alum Option number two, which one is correct? Alam, number one.

Alam, number two. Which one? Aya wahde.

Yes, number two is the correct one. عَلَم And عَلَم يعني flag. Okay? Flag. When it's a long A, عَالَم means people.

You see? So, عَلَم عَلَم Flag. عَالَم means people or it also means the world.

عَالَم Okay? For now, let's just learn flag today. عَالَم It's not أَلَم. You see, if I cover the number three and and pronounce it Alam, the meaning even will change and it will become a pen. Thank you.

And it becomes a pen or a pencil. But it's Alam. Angry dog, remember.

So this one, I'm going to pronounce two ways, you tell me which one is correct. I'm not going to exaggerate, so it becomes a bit more difficult. Okay? Number one, عناب. Number two, عناب.

Which one? Again, number one, عناب. Number two, عناب. And it means grapes, yes.

Yes, number one, عناب. عناب, عناب. بطير منيح.

مش عناب, غلط. عناب, عناب. عناب. and i'm not saying no it's i'm exaggerating okay okay enough for today but before we go two things okay let's do a quick quick revision about how you're going to remember these songs and before i go again i want to remind you as i said before to those of you who just came in it's very nice to do tiktok lessons youtube lessons to try to teach yourself Arabic but at the end of the day if you want to learn properly and really learn the details of the language the grammar behind it the proper foundation it's very important to do it with a structure and for that I have 30 day Lebanese Arabic challenge courses and when I say Lebanese Arabic it's Levantine Arabic spoken widely spoken in the Arab world widely understood in the Arab world so if you master it you will be understood in any Arabic country so there are in this 30 day challenge I give you a roadmap, I give you a structure, and you know exactly what you will learn in day one and day two and day three and day four, all the way to the end of the third.

30-day challenges. So it's very important to have a roadmap and to have achievements and goals to achieve one after the other and after the other. So you actually really speak the language, okay? So there are courses all the way from absolute beginners to advanced.

There are seven levels of courses and these are courses I do live with my students on Zoom and pre-recorded. People do them on their own because they need flexibility and they cannot do a lesson every day at the same time. But even if you're doing it on your own, there are Q&A sessions.

so you won't be alone there you can ask your questions you can come ask your questions and my students who did it they know like they just text me on whatsapp i answer their questions i'm always there with them and i always nag them to do it and they are never left alone okay and to be honest with you after covid finished things started to change because people are going back to normal life went back to normal life and to work and it's becoming more difficult to do lessons at the same time every day that's why they're choosing the pre-recorded so i'm only opening ...classes whenever there's at least four students in class, okay? Yalla, before I go, let me quickly... I'm gonna check your comments later on, okay?

And see if... If you have any questions, yalla, type them now. What was I gonna say? Yalla, just very quickly, how do we remember the sounds? Make in your head like an imagination, like a list, notes of five things to remember.

Okay, the angry dog, which letter is it? Yalla, which letter is the angry dog? Which one?

The next live lessons by the way will be from June 22 until July 21. Yes, let's go. So, angry dog number 3. Okay, the pause, the glottal stop. Think of also the apple. Do you say apple or apple? It's a, a, apple.

So which one is that? The stop, the glottal stop, the pause. Yes, number two, very good. Cleaning glasses.

Cleaning glasses, which one is it? Cleaning glasses. Yes, number seven, cleaning glasses.

Then we have gargling. Which one is it? gargling I'm waiting, no, gargling yes gargling is not number 5 no, it's a which one is it? No, number 5 was the KH, optional gargling No, no, no, not the number five, no.

Three people said number five, no. I'm not sure about six, no. No, I gave you something else, what? gh okay and we we spoke about the word rebe which is a forest rebe okay yeah write it down so I know you remember it now gargling is gh which one is the spitting sound remember the spitting sound what I'm gonna show you but I want you to type it first It could be the number five or number five could be possible or the KHS. Yes, correct.

Okay. Yalla. I think that's enough for today. I hope you enjoyed it.

Let me check questions. If you have questions, please type them now. So because there's so many comments, I don't know if I can.

do you go live on a certain day or time? maybe I should be more organized in that I don't I just think okay I have time now let me go live okay but maybe maybe I should do it but if I if you if I if you miss the live it's okay I always upload I download it and I upload it to my youtube page or to my Instagram page globetrot with Arabic you can follow me there if you want okay yes the comments man whoo she did it Do you do one-on-one tutoring classes? For the time being, no, because I'm doing so many things at the same time. I'm creating courses.

I do the 30-day challenge courses. I'm writing a dialogues book, which is coming soon, hopefully next month. It's been one year, I say next month, and I'm not organized about it.

But no, this time, really, I want to finish it in one month. I'm doing a podcast, so many things. But hopefully, when things are calmer, maybe I go back to one-to-one lessons. But if...

I say this to my students, people who do the 30 day challenge on their own, the pre-recorded, they can do the Q&A sessions and the Q&A sessions, honestly speaking, they are like one-to-one lessons because most of the time students don't even come to them, you know what I mean? Because the courses are very clear, they say. You know, I just give a compliment to myself. Okay, I picked up some in the Middle East when I was a teacher, but very little.

Yeah, okay, why not? You can start learning. Thank you, thank you for all of you who are saying you like my lessons and all of that. Thank you so much.

And if you want more information about the actual courses, I don't have an afford now as I said I'm not doing hourly lessons and if you want more information about the courses you can get in touch my email is charique at globetrotwitharabic.com I will type it under some of my videos or you can just go on click on my Instagram page and you will find the form. Thank you, thank you so much. And how many languages do I speak?

I speak four and a half. Arabic, English, French, Armenian because I have Armenian roots. Thank you very much.

And Italian, I tried to learn Italian like 10 years ago and I lost it, but I can manage to have a conversation. And I'm trying to learn Tagalog recently, just a few words, and I'm starting to understand how hard it is on my... students sometimes okay yeah I'm gonna go now and thank you for watching bye guys bye

Transcript for:Lebanese Arabic Pronunciation Lesson

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Lebanese Arabic Pronunciation Lesson