The Beginning Congratulatio ns on your decision to start learning the Arabic script! We shall start with the letter Baa: As you may have guessed from the name, this is the Arabic equivalent of the letter B. It is also used as P when writing foreign words and names, because Arabic doesn't natively have a P sound and B comes closest. To associate the picture and the sound, think of it as a boat, with the dot representing a paddle. The Arabic script is cursive; almost all letters will be connected to each other. On the bright side, this means that you don't have to learn a whole new way of writing the letters in order to be able to decipher handwriting. On the down side, it means that you immediately have to learn to recognize each letter in its connected shapes. Here are the possible shapes Baa can take: Arabic is read right-to-left so what you see on the very right is how Baa will look at the beginning of a word; then the form when it's in the middle, and third from the right is the form it takes when at the end. Finally, on the left is the isolated shape. To illustrate, here's how to write 3 Baa's as one word: The most reliable way to identify Baa is to look for the the dot underneath. When writing Arabic by hand, move from right to left and write dots and diacritics last.
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