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Sunday, June 29, 2008

Learning the Alphabet

Without realizing it, you learned your first language by learning its alphabet somewhat subconsciously. This allowed you to speak it. Later you learned it formally to read and write. This alphabet was an essential part of learning the language.

Thus when learning to understand, speak, and write a new language you must understand its alphabet. The better that you know and peak the alphabet the easier it will be to speak, read, and write in it.

Thus here are some references:

Chinese: Pinyin is an invaluable tool for learning the alphabet.
Here are some tool’s to understand it:

Great Videos for understanding Chinese Pinyin:
http://www.chinaontv.com/index.php/video_play_new/E10009
http://www.chinaontv.com/index.php/video_play_new/E10010
http://www.chinaontv.com/index.php/video_play_new/E10011
http://www.chinaontv.com/index.php/video_play_new/E10012

Arabic:
Great video’s for understanding the Arabic Alphabet, TAJWEED:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE28pejcWt4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI3oBB_n1AU

To learn the other alpabet's try google and youtube for video's.

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