Lesson 0: An Introduction

Introduction to Gulf Arabic and its letters

Sayed Almosawi

5/31/2025

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Welcome to the first lesson in our Gulf Arabic learning journey!

In this lesson, you will be briefly introduced to Gulf Arabic, and you will discover its phonemes, and, most importantly, some writing conventions that we'll be using throughout this series (we'll stop using transliterations very soon).