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Differences Between Arabic And English Languages

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Soumaya Hajjoul
ID: 11230404
Topic: Differences between Arabic and English Languages.
Outline:
I. Introduction to Language in General a- History of Arabic Language
II. Arabic and English language characteristics in translation
1- Methodology a- Translation of verb phrases b- Translation of noun phrases
III. Difference In English And Arabic Languages a- Vocabulary b- Grammar c- Phonology d- Alphabet
IV. Which language is more used according to some Statistical researches
V. Result and Comparison in Having different languages

The Arabic language

Arabic is usually ranked among the top six of the world's major languages. As the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, it is also widely used throughout the Muslim world. It belongs …show more content…

Problems in pronouncing consonants include the inability to produce the th sounds in words such as this and thin, the swapping of /b/ and /p/ at the beginning of words, and the substitution of /f/ for /v/. Consonant clusters, such as in the words split, threw or lengths, also cause problems and often result in the speaker adding an extra vowel: spilit, ithrew or lengthes.
In Arabic word stress is regular. It is common, therefore, for Arab learners to have difficulties with the seemingly random nature of English stress patterns. For example, the word yesterday is stressed on the first syllable and tomorrow on the second.
The elision (or swallowing) of sounds that is so common in spoken English is problematic for Arab speakers, and they will often resist it. (Consider, for example, how the questions What did you do? or Do you know her? are said in conversational English: Whatcha do? / Jew know her?) This aversion to elision and the use of glottal stops before initial vowels are the primary reasons for the typical staccato quality of the spoken English of Arab

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