"هارْفارْد جامِعة أَمْريكِيّة."

Translation: Harvard is an American university.

[sartma]

The Audio says "haarfaard jaami3atan 2amriikiyyatan". Shouldn't it be "haarfaard jaami3atun 2amriikiyya"?

[AhmadLaM]

Yes, you're right, it should be "jaami3atun"/"جامِعةٌ"

[MarksAaron]

It definitely should. For some reason the TTS keeps pronouncing the accusative ending -an instead of the nominative ending -un, I've seen it in dozens of sentences now.

[Crossmount]

thank you for that correction

[dio_rgenes]

Dude, how small are those letters, I can't tell if it's an R or Z in Harvard (hazvazd)

I surely need glasses, but also probably a magnifier

[AhmadLaM]

Yes, I agree with. I'm hopeful it will be fixed since the course is still in beta right now

[Sam278989]

I have the same problem. I have been holding down the control key on my computer and hitting the + key until it becomes clear.

[DuoLiNxo]

Man this is my main problem with arabic right now. I always need to force my eyes to read those letters

[SaeedMahjoori]

Guys why Harfard while we have و in Arabic?

[sartma]

Apparently you can use the "new" letter "ڤ" for the sound /v/. You also find "Harvard" written as هارڤرد.

[MarksAaron]

I guess because 'f' is a slightly better match for the sound 'v' than 'w' would be. 'Haarfaard' is a little better than 'Haarwaard'

[boofshoof]

What MarksAaron said. V and F are almost the same phonetically, the main difference is that V is voiced while F is not.

[king528946]

Harvard is an american university

[Amal728978]

Why doesn't "Harvard University is American" work?

[boofshoof]

That's a different sentence; in "Harvard is an American university," the subject is "Harvard," while in the sentence you gave, the subject is "Harvard University." So the former sentence is structured as subject-verb-adjective-noun, whereas the latter is structured as subject-verb-adjective.