Ahlan wa sahlan! In this video, we're going to work on connecting letters in words.
As you know, each letter in Arabic has an independent form, and also an
initial, medial, and final form depending on its position in the word. That can
seem like a lot of memorization, but it's important to remember as we learn these
letters that often there are groups that you can memorize all at once that will
make the process of retention a little bit easier. For example baa, taa, and thaa
all follow exactly the same pattern of usage, the only difference is the dots
that go above the 'tooth' of the letter. same thing with jiim, Haa, and khaa, daal and
dhaal, raa and zaa, you have these groups these pairs or trios, so allow that to be
a memorization aid. So now as an exercise, let's practice connects connecting some
letters into words. Here we have 'baa, alif, baa,' and we're going to
connect them to form one word. We're going to take baa and start with the
initial form: notice that it follows into the next letter, and here we have alif, so
we're going to use the medial form, and we notice that it doesn't connect with
the letter that follows it, we're going to have to start over from the beginning.
And here we have a final baa, but since it can't connect with the alif, we're
going to use its standalone form. For the word باب, which means 'door in Arabic.
Another slightly longer example, daal, jiim, alif, jiim. So we're going to start
with daal, and we notice that daal's initial form also doesn't connect, it's
an unfriendly letter, standalone daal, so we're going to start with the initial
form of jiim here, even though it's in the middle of the word, because it can't
connect with daal. Jiim connects to alif, which as we saw before, doesn't connect
with the letter that follows, so once again we use the standalone form of jiim.
دجاج, .which means 'chicken' in Arabic :Here's one that's a little longer
Haa, baa, yaa, baa, yaa. So we start with the initial form of Haa,
connect it to the medial form of baa, and here we're going to have kind of a
string of medial forms in the word, they all connect. Medial form of yaa,
another baa, and final form of yaa. Notice the difference between the medial
form of yaa, and the final form of yaa. they're a bit different, and this yaa,
the final form is lower. حبيبي, which means 'my darling my baby my beloved,' in
Arabic. Here's another:
waaw, yaa, zaa, raa. Initial form of waaw, which once again, is an unfriendly letter,
it doesn't quite connect with the letters that follow it, so it has a stand alone
form, pretty much by itself. waaw, zaa, which as we see here in its medial
form also doesn't connect, yaa, raa, وزير, which means 'secretary' or 'minister,'
in my governmental sense. How about another: miim, raa,
yaa, Daad. 'miim' in initial form,
miim connects to raa, yaa,
Daad. مريض, which means 'sick.'
Finally
thaa, alif, baa, taa.
Initial form of thaa connects to 'alif,' medial form, baa, and then final taa,
which we notice has two 'teeth,' not one for the word ثابت, which means 'stable' in
Arabic.