Updated: 27/01/2003; 11:08:03 PM
Stephen Rapley
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This is where I plan a site tracking my learning how to read and write Arabic. It's an attempt to integrate the blog with learning a language.

The plan is to develop over time:

  • an index page - aka 'contents' 
  • introduction -
    • explaining my aims to illuminate the selection of material included
    • the language - who speaks it where, history of the language
    • structure
    • script - evolution & forms etc
    • pointers to Arabic script and computers, html etc
  • the letters
    • working through each of the 29 letters of the Arabic alphabet and the assorted diacritics - most likely in an order starting with baa', taa', thaa', nuun, yaa', 'alif, hamza and waw.
    • each page would focus on one letter, indicate the qualities of the letter, its different forms - initial, medial, final and isolated - and perhaps diiferent styles and possibly handwritten renditions of the letter.
  • pronunciation - via sound files and IPA symbols
  • vocabulary
    • start capturing new words encountered during studies.
    • organised by letter - perhaps with note about when, context ect if possible. 
  • sources
  • glossary
  • grammar

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