Last night my grandma helped me read a paragraph in arabic, and when my grandma helps, she won't allow you to do anything less than 200% haha. So she would read a word, then I would read a word with an exact arabic accent, then she would read the sentence, then I would read the sentence, then we'd translate it, then I'd read it again, etc. etc. So cool. The vowels in Arabic are either short or long, the short ones are assumed, but when you're learning they put the accent marks in so you know what sound to make, and the long ones are actual letters. So my name in arabic is actually just YZN with an A accent over the Y and Z to connect it into Yazan. It's kinda like reading a piece of music since you're constantly changing the sounds you're making and you know the consonants but think of the short accents as sharps or flats...kinda. Also the language just has so much flow to it! Anyway, after we were done my grandma said "this reminds me of helping your father and uncle learn arabic, except back then I was 30, now I'm almost 80!"
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