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Arabic Lessons: "It gets easier."
Robert F. Worth looks at the complexities of learning Arabic for the New York Times. As the months passed, the sounds of the language were gradually transformed. Arabic's hard "h" letter, so difficult to pronounce at first, began to seem like a lovely breath of air, as if countless tiny parachutes were lifting the words above their glottal base. The notorious "ayn" sound, which often takes months for English speakers to produce, lost its guttural edge and acquired, to my ear, the throaty rumble of a well-tuned sports car. Tags: Arabic
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