@osamabawab First of all, there are bawabs in Doha? Haha.
Ok, end of jokes. So, I know this might seem to be complicated, but is most certainly not. What makes Arabic complicated in my opinion (I am not a native speaker, obviously) is that many students start learning, not realizing there are overlapping letters that people write the same. They do not distinguish them, so when talking to people they evaluate 5 (kh), 7 (H, as in Ba7rain), and h (huwwa, "he") to be the exact same letter. They cannot understand why native speakers do not understand them, they do not recognize why similar words are not even similar, and it infuriates them. The h distinction is the most obvious; there are many others. I just point this out because it is not so complicated, and recognizing studying Arabic without the script in the first place is bad. Using a really simple way of writing them in English letters is even worse, since the confusion starts after people settle into their habits.
Thanks for putting up the list. Here is the full list I have seen on Wikipedia.
Note to others who are learning: there is some variation, but osamabawab has correctly identified the important ones that the majority will understand. The other variations on WP that contradict are not so important.
@osamabawab First of all, there are bawabs in Doha? Haha.
Ok, end of jokes. So, I know this might seem to be complicated, but is most certainly not. What makes Arabic complicated in my opinion (I am not a native speaker, obviously) is that many students start learning, not realizing there are overlapping letters that people write the same. They do not distinguish them, so when talking to people they evaluate 5 (kh), 7 (H, as in Ba7rain), and h (huwwa, "he") to be the exact same letter. They cannot understand why native speakers do not understand them, they do not recognize why similar words are not even similar, and it infuriates them. The h distinction is the most obvious; there are many others. I just point this out because it is not so complicated, and recognizing studying Arabic without the script in the first place is bad. Using a really simple way of writing them in English letters is even worse, since the confusion starts after people settle into their habits.
Thanks for putting up the list. Here is the full list I have seen on Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet
Note to others who are learning: there is some variation, but osamabawab has correctly identified the important ones that the majority will understand. The other variations on WP that contradict are not so important.