Talk:Arabic/Arabic alphabet (by group)

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I was thinking a fun exercise would be to get people to write English words in Arabic. This would be useful because 1) people don't have an English vocabulary 2) it would help them dissociate writing system from spoken languages (although this isn't always possible). Of course we could be cheeky and say, "since we don't know any arabic words, let's borrow a few from English", those being Alcohol, algorithm, etc, etc. Maybe we could even have them read an English sentence like: اف يو كن ريد ثيس، يو رد اربيك  (this is meant to say "if you can read this, you can read arabic")

Anyone care to propose a list of exercise-words? -- Kowey 17:52, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Arabic letter size
Is there any possibility in increasing the arabic letter size? It's really hard to copy even with the text sized turned up.

Maybe also any chance of a printable "copy along" page like those in most hiragana/katakana self learn books?


 * Well... i tried, but cranking up the font size doesn't seem to make a difference (i.e. from +2 to +5 is the same). Maybe somebody else knows how? Can't help you on the "copy along" pages... my Arabic book doesn't show how to write the letters.  I've sort of given up on learning the language for now though.  Looks like somebody else will have to take over.  -- Kowey 08:08, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)


 * Fixed. -- Kowey 13:50, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Isolated
An anonymous editor (hi!) made some changes to the table: but the formatting to these changes is messed up, so it would be useful to correct it first. Also, I've recently set aside the Arabic, but I think the point of the extra _ is to show context, i.e. where other letters go. It is not intended to represent the letter shape itself. But maybe I misunderstood your comment. Best -- Kowey 10:39, 23 October 2005 (UTC)