Learn to Read and Write Arabic Using the Tiniest Bit of Vocabulary and Grammar
Unit 10
On this page you will find audio materials corresponding to Unit 10
of Bite-Size Arabic, divided into
new letters and symbols,
vocabulary, and select
exercises
10-A, 10-B, 10-C, 10-E, 10-I, and 10-P.
New Letters and Symbols
In this unit the following letters are introduced.
You can click on the name of the letter to hear it pronounced.
faa’
Final
Medial
Initial
Independent
ـف
ـفـ
فـ
ف
qaaf
Final
Medial
Initial
Independent
ـق
ـقـ
قـ
ق
You also learned about the diacritic
’alif madda,
which respresents the
’aa sound combination:
آ
Vocabulary
The following are the new words introduced in this unit.
You will need to know them to complete some of the exercises
in this unit and those in the following units.
Click on the word to listen.
في
fii‘in’
يَفْهَم
yafham‘to understand’
يَعْرِف
yaʕrif‘to know’
يَقْرَأ
yaqra’‘to read’
قَهْوَة
qahwa‘coffee’
يَقُول
yaquul‘to say’
آسِف
’aasif‘sorry’
آنِسَة
’aanisa‘young lady, Miss’
الآن
’al-’aan‘now’
جَرِيدَة
jariida‘newspaper’
كَلِمَة
kalima‘word’
القُرْآن
’al-qur’aan‘the Quran’
حَبِيب،
حَبِيبَة
ḥabiib, ḥabiiba‘sweetheart, dear (masc., fem.)’
The following woman's names were introduced:
عَفاف
ʕafaaf‘Afaf’
فَرِيدَة
fariida‘Farida’
The following men's names were also introduced:
فُؤاد
fu’aad‘Fouad’
فَرِيد
fariid‘Farid’
Exercises
The following is a selection of the exercises from this unit:
10-A, 10-B, 10-C, 10-E, 10-I, and 10-P.
Exercise 10-A.
Read aloud the following words containing the letter
faa’.
1.
فَم
2.
فَلافِل
3.
فَعَلْتُ
4.
سَفِيرَة
5.
فِبْرايِر
6.
غُرْفَة
Exercise 10-B.
In this exercise we will practice pronouncing the preposition
fii
‘in’ before a noun with the article.
Note again how the ’a
of the article ‘al-
is dropped after a word ending in a vowel. And in pronunciation,
the vowel in fii
becomes shortened to fi before the article.
That is, a phrase like fii l-bayt
‘in the house’ is actually pronounced
fil bayt.
Pronounce the following phrases:
1.
في الشّاي
2.
في الكِتاب
3.
في المَكْتَب
4.
في الدُّكّان
Exercise 10-C.
Read aloud or transcribe the following words containing qaaf:
1.
قَلِيل
2.
بَرْقُوق
3.
ساق
4.
قُمامَة
5.
قَرْن
6.
قائِمَة
Exercise 10-E.
Read aloud or transcribe the following words containing ’alif madda.
1.
آكُل
2.
الآتِيَة
3.
آفاق
Exercise 10-I.
Read and translate the following phrases and sentences.
1.
ماذا تَقْرَأ تلك الآنِسة؟
2.
هل أنتِ تَفْهَمِيـن ذلك الرجل؟
3.
ذلك الوَلَد لا يَعْرِف هذه السيّدة.
4.
ماذا يَقُول زوجِك، يا فَرِيدَة؟
5.
هل تَعْرِف من أحب؟
6.
لا أَفْهَم ماذا تَقُول، يا فُؤاد.
7.
هل تَعْرِف من أين ذلك السيّد؟
8.
ماذا تَقْرأ في ذلك الكتاب؟
Exercise 10-O.
Do you remember your numbers? In unit 12 we will be learning more of them,
as well as how to read Arabic numerals.
But in the meantime, practice counting from one through seven.
Here is the first letter of each number:
و...، ا...، ث...، أ...، خ...، س...، س...
Exercise 10-P.
Read and translate the following phrases and sentences.
