"زَيد وَسام مِن عُمان."
Translation:Zayd and Sam are from Oman.
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In the Arabic language there are only three distinctive vowels : /a/, /i/, /u/ The /a/ can be pronounced more closed like an /ɜ /, the /i/ can be pronounced more opened like an /e/, the /u/ can be pronounced like an /ɔ/ or an /o/, the distinction does not make any special sense. It's like the /b/ and the /v/ in Spanish : you can pronounce both of them, /bamos/ or /vamos/ for example, it's non-distinctive. In linguistics this is called non-minimal pairs. If only two sounds can product different words with different senses, it's a minimal pair. Like for instance the nasal vowels / ɔ̃ / and /ɑ̃/ in French : cancer pronounced /kɑ̃sɛʁ/ is the disease, concert pronounced /kɔ̃sɛʁ/ is the music event.
So Oman can be pronounced /ɔman/ or /oman/, and if it's pronounced /ɔ/, wich is an open vowel like the /a/, you can heard a sort of little /a/
To me it sounds like she is pronouncing it more like zaid wa sām minnu 'awman.
I accidentally wrote is instead of are and got wrong instead of a correction
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What you wrote was wrong. The computer gave you a correction by telling you what you should have written. What you didn't get was a "pass". Just do the sentence over again. It has taken you longer to complain about it that it would have to just redo the sentence. ; )
Why is "waw" connected to Sam. Is that normal or is the waw supposed to be on its own.
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It is correct to connect "waaw" to the following word, but a Lebanese speaker said that in Lebanon they do not attach it to the following word.
Its wa meaning and. And the way arabic is u have to know the different ways they structure the sentences. When u see wa u dont have to put the adjectives first. U just read it exactly how it is when and(wa) is attached.
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Without the vowel markings, they are spelled the same way. With the vowel markings, Amman is spelled عَمّان and Oman is spelled عُمان .
Well, first of all, I am in Love with this App. Thanks for providing us such a platfrom. Well, I just wanted to inform that "and" and "&" are same, so there should not be made any difference with these. Thanks
