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Pronunciation guide

The imitated pronunciation should be read as if it were English, bearing in mind that the emphatic consonants indicate more a vowel volume than a separate sound.

Vowels: there are three basic short vowels in Arabic and three long ones. These are:

Stressing of words

Arabic words do not have a stressed syllable in the manner that English words do. However, individual consonants can exhibit stress by means of a shadda (gemination)—this is represented by a duplicated consonant. For example, in the word kassara “to break,” the duplicated s indicates consonantal stress as in the English name Cassandra.