Arabic (MSA) Pronunciation Video 2: Consonants (DRAFT)

This is the second of a 4-part series on Arabic pronunciation. The goal is to get familiar with the sounds of Arabic and the IPA symbols. You'll then be able to learn them faster, either through your own studies or through my pronunciation trainers. More links below:

[tanzoniteblack]

At 4:15, when talking about the differences between "l" in English and Arabic, you put "ث" instead of "ل" on the screen

[rochadealencar]

This videos is amazing!!!
thank you so much. I was struggling with the emphatic ones, i could never tell the difference between them while reading...

[SUZUKI]

As with parents one from USA and one middle east I lived in USA for half my life only speaking English, came to the middle east lived here for awhile had to learn Arabic to communicate with my fathers side. I swear every day I would learn something new. It's very hard and tricky. Although Arabic is my second language I am fluent at it. But I still have alittle struggle with ظ ،ض ح ه

[sheelaunnikrishnan]

Thanks so much for these video it clearly explains the sounds and how to make them

[adrianandronic]

At 14:43 and 15:07, you talk about ħ, but you list the Arabic as خ. It should be ح, without the dot. Great video! I was cracking up, hilarious

[ahmedsabri]

you are so good but from 7:06 to 7:44 and 17:40 طين = mud تين = fig

[viola]

Could you please cover more about the arabic language. You'r videos are the only ones that I think are helpful

[MM-iqdd]

As a person who speaks Arabic listen to what he says it’s all right

[abdullhahmed]

تين: fig
طين: mud
The images are flipped

[moj]

I am from India Learned Quran reading age of 4 also knowing Urdu and Farsi only few alphabets are little deferent . 3rd Alphabet Urdu speaking people pronounce as seen e.g. Usman.

[Bahraini]

I thought it was good to mention the letter (ة) /Tāʾ marbūṭah/ because it is pronounced in two ways 1- as T, 2- as H, like some English letters as the C in product /ˈprɒdʌkt/, produce /prəˈdjuːs/.

[rubenfranko]

Dear Gabriel, the fig and mud/clay is the other way around, I think. Will you please check that?

[lilianmiramontesjr.]

Omg yes! thank why is it I only trust your teaching methods? hahaha

[lxvbvfiv]

But /æ/ sound is the one as in "cat", do you think we should use /ə/, the initial sound as in "about"? It shall clarify the phonemic concepts

[walker]

In northern yemen, we pronounce قq the way Americans say G in english

[walker]

Our R راء is like the soft(d) in better letter....etc. You already pronounce it in english.

[titotheterrible]

The discussion of emphatic consonants describes uvularization, but uses the ipa symbol for pharyngealization 🤔

[RBLXbranefreez]

I've always wanted to learn Arabic. I, contrary to so many of my peers, feel that Arabic sounds more attractive than the Romance languages. (Yes... I know that romance in that context means "derived from Roman Vulgar Latin").

[dr.fatimahuthman]

7:07 there is mistyping for تين= fig while طين= mud.

[hasen]

There's no difference in the "d" and "t" sounds between Arabic and English. I don't know what you're talking about.

But other than that, really good job explaining all the consonants.