actually depends on different arab countries

Which definitely should improve your retention. ;-) Do you know why they use sukkuun all over the place in the articles even in front of "sun-letters"?

You don't say it every day?

Haha yep

We're talking about a specific table thats infront of us so we use "al"

Without the "al" prefix, it would mean "This is a hot table" instead of "This table is hot". The grammar would also be different