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Arabic speakers learning French
— the mistakes your language makes you commit

Your native language (العربية) quietly pushes you into specific French errors. Here are the ones to watch — and the fix for each. This is exactly how WordSlick coaches you, every day.

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p and v sounds

Arabic has no /p/ or /v/, so pain/bain and vous/fou blur. Practice minimal pairs — /p/ is unvoiced with no throat vibration, /v/ is f with voice.

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"to be" cannot be dropped

Arabic omits the copula in the present ("al-baytu kabīr"); French always needs être: "la maison EST grande".

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Many more vowel qualities

Arabic has three vowel qualities; French has over a dozen — é/è, u/ou, eu and the nasals all distinguish words. Train them as separate sounds, not shades of one.

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un/une gets dropped

Arabic has the definite al- but no indefinite article, so un/une tends to vanish. French needs an article on almost every noun.

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Gender exists but is reassigned

Arabic gender intuition helps, but assignments differ (ash-shams is feminine, le soleil is masculine). Re-learn each noun's French gender with its article.

core challenge

Noun gender (le/la)

Gender is largely unpredictable — learn le/la with each noun.

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