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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Did you really mean "a as in but" ? It hasn't got an "a". However, you may have really meant it, and all "a's" are pronounced the way I pronounce the "u" in "but". Just checking ....
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Because you are used to pronounce certain letters and letter combinations different depending on context. The
'u' in
but sounds different than in
burn. The beauty of arabic is that it is the only language that has no exceptions on how to pronounce a written word. When necessary you have to WRITE it different. So when you have
eat, the past tense
ate simple enough, they also sound different. Now, how do you do that with
read, past tense
read, pronounced different, but written the same. You won't ever have that in arabic. If you go from
read to past tense you have to write it
rEAd (a different sounding version of the same letters).
Doitsu could probably explain that much better. Except that even simply reading arabic (without understanding the meaning) is complicated enough.