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It would be helpful if the Arabic print was written larger on the screen.
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And not yellow on whit though I guess that is duolingo standard. Still not good though.
Note for producers during Beta: I think the audio is not correct, the audio sounds like the actor is saying plub, instead of Bob (b-oo-b)
I think it is sounding pop instead of plub. Rather it should sound Bob. Arabic speakers don't really pronounce B“O”B as English speakers do
And that's exactly why it's a bad idea to learn arabic through english names.
Native English speaker here. I hear Bob pretty clearly, with an accent of course, but I definitely hear Bob
I hear Bob too (from PC). It might have to do with the p and b sounds are both labials.
Wouldn't it be pronounced like "buub"? I don't know when did we learned the "o" vowel.
I'm loving the beta so far :)
Both "b-oo-b"( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) and "bob" are valid pronunciations. Mainly because this word has no meaning in Arabic. If your name is Bob, the only way to write it in Arabic is "بوب"
Shouldn't the "و" need a tiny forward slash, though, to make it shorter, in case of "Bob"? Like we learned with other vowels...
AFAIK the forward slash just gives a consonant the short 'a' sound. There are two other "short vowels" that work in a similar way.
As for the 'o' sound... I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist in Arabic, but I'm not a native speaker so take this with a grain of salt.
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That's only with the a vs. aa isnt it? a is a slash, aa is a long stick. I don't think this applies to any other letter.
DL transcribes the "long stick" = alif with "aa" while the fatha vowel ("slash" above the consonant) is "a." I recommend that in the next iteration of DL Arabic that in the first few lessons they provide help with the commonly accepted names for the consonants and main vowels. (When the slash is below the consonant I think it's called kasra and has an "i" sound.)
Yes! I'm not an expert, only coming from Quran Arabic. The small slash above is a fat-ha which says short "a" sound like "eh." To lengthen it, use the tall alif. The small slash below is a kasra and says "i" and to lengthen a long "ee" sound, add the yeh letter (snake with two dots below). There are also two other types of these small marks (they're called tashkeel), one called Damma for the short "u" sound, and one called sukun to indicate that you should not put a vowel after the letter at all.
In that case it would be pronounced bawab.. but you are partially right.. to get the sort uu sound therr should be a tiny و on the first ب in the word بب without the big و in the middle. (My arabic keyboard on mobile doesnt have arabic diacritics to write it for you.. sorry)
The letter (و) in Arabic is pronounced either as w (water), uu (cool). When there are foreign names, usually (و) is used to indicate (o) as in (door) because it is the closest.
Hard to see where to report this, but on Chrome on Mac, the word text is underlined but the styling of the underline makes it seem like there are extra diacritics. The font is also incredibly tiny.
the arabic letters in this lesson are so tiny. im not sure how i am supposed correlate sounds to letters if i cant see them.
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I'm kind of confused with the whole Arabic alphabet, but since the answer to this is "Bob" I immediately thought of this:
Most letters have different forms in the beginning, middle and end of a word, as well as an independent form.
I've almost completed alphabet to and at this point I don't feel I'm being challenged to actually look at the Arabic writing and decipher it when the same names are being recycled. At this point I believe I have a fair grasp of how to decipher the sounds from these figures but I'm not giving an incentive to at this point because I've seen these names a hundred times
I wouldn't have spelled Bob with an "oo" because it's more accurate with an "ah" sound.
I hear pab, with a p. The last two letters sound exactly as they should in arabic. Either a p sound has been priduced through the recording, instead if b, or the accent makes it sound like a be to my ears.
Going on everything I was just shown through Alph1 this should be B-uu-b "boob"... Giggle Shrug
Why is script pale yellow and tiny? Is this some psychology trick to make us peer closely at the letters? Bc it's ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ irritating, Duo. Btw the f bomb is a psychology trick to get your attention.
