Perfect , you are doing great. Use Google translation website Use this line in the address bar of your internet browser http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?tl=ar&q=مرحبا change the word مرحبا into any other ARABIC word. In Arabic sounds we use those tiney letters ُ َ ِ for short vowels and we use only three letters of our alphabet ا و ي for long vowels. now if I am to write the English word "book" with Arabic letters it will be بُك whereas "more" will be مْورـ what about "moon" ? Moon will be مـُون Now as you can see the sound of و proceeded by Skoon ــْ gave us the kind of O in more and for the smooth oo in moon we have و proceeded by ــُ In fact both proceeding tiney vowels that belong to the proceeding letters effect how we pronounce و Thus we can manage how to write "same" in the form of سَيم here we produced an يـ sound different from that in "seed" سِيد In brief the combination of an Arabic vowel ا و ي proceeded by a tiney vowel ُ _ َ _ ِ __ْ will produce many different new vowels consider this. مَوزْ <> تُوت here we have two different و sound by the help of the proceeding vowels that belong to proceeding letter. more fear فِيرْ face فَيسْ

سَمِيرَةُ samiiratu

:) Mona, thank you for your help,

you are good but إِلَى اللِّقَاءِ[ila al-liqai] the word لِقَاء first letter with kasra liqa and when you but theال you will but shadaa and kasra nder shada not above shada good luck http://www.italki.com/teacher/1622483

hi i hope you are fine and these are Prepositions and how pronounce you will use it to speak about places good luck in Arabic Prepositions in Arabic are used just like in English; they come before the noun, In front of house أَمَامَ الْبَيْت When you say in front of me (Prepositions+ possessives pronounce , my – your – her – his) (أَمَامِي – أَمَامكَ – أَمَامَكِ – أَمَامَهُ – أَمَامَهَا) Arabic Pronunciation Prepositions أَمَامَ amama in front of وَرَاءَ wara’a Beyond - behind فَوْقَ fawqa Above تَحْتَ tahta Below - Down عَلَى ala فِي fi In بِجَانِب bejaaneb Beside - close to بَيْنَ bayna Between حَوْلَ hawla Around قَبْلَ qabla Before بَعْدَ ba’da After قَرِيب مِنْ qareeb Near bel qurbi men close by بَعِيد عَنْ Baeed an far from دَاخِل dakhel inside خَارِج kharej Outside مِنْ men from إِلَى ela to http://www.italki.com/teacher/1622483