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Eastern Arabic 2
Reading Booklet
Eastern Arabic 2
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Eastern Arabic 2
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Voices
English-Speaking Instructor . . . . . . . . . . . Ray Brown
Arabic-Speaking Instructor . . . . . . . . . Baraa Zuhaili
Female Arabic Speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dima Orsho
Male Arabic Speaker. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Khalil Younes
Course Writers
Dr. Mahdi Alosh ♦ Mary E. Green
Editors
Elisabeth B. Heinle ♦ Beverly D. Heinle
Executive Producer
Beverly D. Heinle
Reviewer
Zuheir Alidib
Recording Engineers
Peter S. Turpin ♦ Kelly Saux
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Table of Contents
Arabic Dialects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The Written System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Arabic Alphabet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Introduction to Readings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Arabic Alphabet Chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Diacritical Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Lesson One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Lesson Two . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Lesson Three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Lesson Four . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Lesson Five . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Lesson Six . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Lesson Seven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Lesson Eight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Lesson Nine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Lesson Ten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Lesson Eleven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Lesson Twelve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Lesson Thirteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Lesson Fourteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Lesson Fifteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Lesson Sixteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Lesson Seventeen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Lesson Eighteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Lesson Nineteen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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Arabic Dialects
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The Arabic Alphabet
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Introduction to Readings
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Eastern Arabic 2
Alphabet Chart (Read from right to left)
aa ـ ا ـ ا ا
b ـب ـبـ بـ
t ـت ـتـ تـ
th ـث ـثـ ثـ
j ـج ـجـ جـ
H ـح ـحـ حـ
kh ـخ ـخـ خـ
d ـد ـد د
dh ـذ ـذ ذ
r ـر ـر ر
z ـز ـز ز
s ـس ـسـ سـ
sh ـش ـشـ شـ
S ـص ـصـ صـ
D ـض ـضـ ضـ
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Alphabet Chart (Read from right to left)
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Alphabet Chart (Read from right to left)
sukuun سكون
ُ
no vowel follows, above the letter
none
ْ
َ
fatHa َف ْتحة a
Damma َ
ض ّمة u
ُ
ِ
short vowel, above the letter
kasra َك ْسرة i
ّ
shadda َ
ش ّدة none
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Lesson One
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Lesson Two
رود 5.
روز 6.
دو 7.
دوب 8.
داب 9.
باد 10.
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Lesson Three
زادو 5.
دي 6.
ديد 7.
ري 8.
دابي 9.
ديب 10.
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Lesson Four
بابا 5.
بات 6.
توب 7.
َبتيد 8.
َربيت 9.
روث 10.
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Lesson Five
زول 5.
بيل 6.
لَبيب 7.
الري 8.
بِالل 9.
لودي 10.
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Lesson Six
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Lesson Seven
َأب 9.
أ َدب 10.
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Lesson Eight
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Eastern Arabic 2
Lesson Nine
َ
ضرير 11. لَ َبن 1.
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Lesson Ten
سفير
َ 11. َثري 1.
ش َفق
َ 13. َأراضي 3.
َ
شفيق 14. راس 4.
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Lesson Eleven
سمير
َ 16. سيب 6.
سالم
َ 20. ِ
ناصر 10.
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Lesson Twelve
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شكيب 18. َمالك 8.
سالم
َ 19. َكري 9.
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Lesson Thirteen
َخ ِ
شن 16. ُسؤال 6.
سماء
َ 18. قهوة أليسار 8.
صباح
َ 19. سفيرة
َ 9.
صالح
َ 20. َفقيرة 10.
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Lesson Fourteen
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Lesson Fifteen
س ْلوى
َ 15. َخبيرة 5.
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Lesson Sixteen
ص ْخر
َ 19. َطبيب 9.
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Lesson Seventeen
كيفك؟ 6.
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Lesson Seventeen
عظمي! 12.
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Lesson Eighteen
لعندك؟ 5.
بالباص. 8.
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Lesson Eighteen
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Lesson Nineteen
عفوا. 6.
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)Lesson Nineteen (continued
بنيويورك. 17.
عظمي! 20.
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