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- "طاوِلة طَويلة"
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939
To all you lot not hearing the difference, I suggest you listen to an Arab speaking English on https://www.dialectsarchive.com/middle-east . I believe it'll help you pick up on the difference faster. Listen for how they differentiate between words like "bit" and "beat," or "look" and "Luke." You'll find they pronounce their long vowels significantly shorter than English speakers would (it'll especially sound like that at a down inflection), and they only distinguish vowels by length and not lax-tense distinction, but the difference will be more audible to an English speaker's ears when it's English that's being spoken and not Arabic, I think.
117
Thank you, i heard the difference, but couldnt tell what that difference was! I guess with practise we will get it!
939
So instead of learning to tell long and short vowels apart since it is integral to understanding Arabic, you're just supposed to go through a thesaurus and pick out an obscure word nobody will understand every single time you encounter a word with a long vowel?
971
The first word is stressed in the first syllable (TA
wila), and the second word is stressed in the second syllable (taWI
la).
342
Both Taweel and Taweela can mean: long or tall.
The difference is that: Taweel is for masculine while Taweela is for feminine.
(Edit: Thanks for the correction, KatieC! :)) I have edited it).