Sound of these letters
Assalamu alaikum,
please I need to know, which one of these letters: ح - ه has the "H" sounds more aspirated? honestly (I have been studying only for 2 weeks) I hear the same sounds, they both sounds to me like "Hi".
Moreover, what is the difference between خ and ق - ? again I listened to some video on Youtube but I can't pick up what's different when they are pronounced in the words.
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Answers · 10
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Dear Andrea, you have touched a real problem for all Arabic learners. ح / هــ are very close to each other. You need to practice a lot to pronounce them in different positions. Please note that هــ is a breathy, explosive and short sound. Just let the air comes quickly outside your lunges without any barriers. While ح is a voiceless, pharyngeal fricative sound.
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ح is the one that is more aspirated .
for the second question ,I don't know how to help you . I would upload a recording ,can't do that here
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ح , هThey are different but non-native speakers pronounce them in the same way as "h", so the only way to recognize them is by writing, look at the Arabic names in tje examples:
Rashedah رشيده *notice the last letter.
Hamid حامد
ق and خ are not alike, even when we write Arabic names that contain these letters in English we wtite them as:
Qasim قاسم
Khaled خالد
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ه is like the h sound.
ح is like the voice that you get when you are splashed with cold water. you can practice on this voice by listening to the word حُب .
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in English there is no letter similar to ح so you wont observe it because you cant listen it because you dont pronounce it.
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