Forest's Audio Question

Thanks Forest for bring up the topic of Audio with these words we are learning.

There are 3 answers to that question:

1) If you learn the alphabet really well from the October 2010 files on arabicforpoets.blogspot.com you'll find that the rules of pronunciation are totally consistent and regular in Arabic, like Spanish, but not like English--so in Arabic you can successfully predict how every word should be pronounced.  Actually, it's even easier than Spanish if you study up on Moras theory, which basically gives you a one-rule formula to find the accent in every Arabic word.

2) If you want to hear the computer apply the rules of Arabic pronunciation to a word for perfect synthetic pronunciation go to google translate and paste in the word.  They have an audio play button.  By opening this blog and Google translate side by side on your screen in two different windows you could copy and paste any word you want to hear quickly and efficiently.  After you type in or paste in a word, click the little blue "Listen" button under the text box.  Here's the link:

http://translate.google.com/#ar|en|

3) Senda might make some youtube videos of the words for us later.  When (and if) she does (i.e. if we get enough feedback indicating that people are actually using these words), then I will post links to those videos as well.

Enjoy!
Sky