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ماشاءالله،الف مبروك يا ايهاب. شكلك عظيم في الصورة.:-D

But I thought you and Mohamed have job other than Arabicpod.net..? Anyway, really great achievement when I can imagine you are already busy enough, you are showing something I can learn ...

3ala fikrah, lately I had a chance to speak Arabic a little Alhamdulillah. But I found myself not pronounce

ل و ر
differently enough! I can see the difference when they are pronounced very slowly, but hardly can't differenciate in a normal speed .Could you give me some advice,please?

Shukran Kurumi, very kind as usual. If you can see the speaker you can probably read their lips as the letters (و) and (ل) have a very distinctive way of moving the lips when pronounced. Other than that I would say to practice words that include these letters so your ears get used to them, probably use ArabicPod dictionary for that purpose as we include the sound of every word in the dictionary.

شكرا على النصيحة يا ايهاب، سأجربه انشالله.:-D
Since Japanese language doesn't differenciate L and R, lam wa raa, it is always the hardest part to detect! Arabic written with English alphabet, raa=r, but their sounds are different, right? My textbook in Japanese says it is the same sound though...

الأفضل الصورة

My internet connection is playing up and the lesson is not working, but had to comment on that great photo! And my congratulations too Ehab...I'd love to be smart enough to study and get a funny hat -- my undergrad one looked dull by comparison. :D

Hope to be back listening and learning soon...it's been far too long since I've been here.

kurumi: l and r are different sounds in Arabic and English...I'm always amazed at what sounds some languages have and others don't -- and I can see how tricky it could be if l and r are not distinguished. I think Ehab's practice practice practice advice is good... Good luck! I'm still struggling with 'r' itself coming from a country where we pronounce it very weakly [and tend to drop it in many circumstances] compared to other English speakers, let alone Arabic speakers. Oddly I have been told my ayn and ghayn aren't bad but I can't do a supposedly simple r! :D

@Shukran climacus, yes, Arabic R sound is different from lam and hard to differenciate them when people speak fast. But now I'm focusing the difference much more than before, it slowly began to dawn on me al7amdulillah. 3ala fikrah,When I try to make Arabic sound,I use my throat frequently and that is very new and interesting. ^^ Like ayn, ghayn,7',9,9',6,6',Q.

Hi Kurumi: sorry, I misread what you wrote... English "r" is different from Arabic "raa" : I keep listening to pronunciations of it and try and get "r" out of my mind so I do not slip back to an English pronunciation! :D

And yes, using the throat has been new and very interesting to me too.