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

Your native language (العربية) quietly pushes you into specific Irish 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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from your first language

VSO is already your default

Classical Arabic opens with the verb (kataba l-waladu) and so does Irish: "Cheannaigh Seán teach". You skip the single hardest structural change European learners face.

from your first language

The nominal sentence becomes "is"

"huwa ṭabīb" needs no verb; Irish adds a small copula but keeps the shape: "Is dochtúir é". States and places switch to tá: "Tá sé sa bhaile".

from your first language

"ʿindī kitāb" is "Tá leabhar agam"

Arabic has no verb "to have" and neither does Irish — both stand the thing beside the person. Feelings work identically: "Tá ocras orm".

from your first language

The iḍāfa is the Irish genitive

"bāb al-bayt" and "doras an tí" build possession the same way: thing first, owner second, one article only. Irish also reshapes the owner and often softens its first letter.

from your first language

Sun letters prepared you for mutations

You already accept that al- reshapes the next sound (ash-shams). Irish goes further and writes the change down: "an bhean", "ar an mbord", "i nGaillimh".

from your first language

Emphatics point toward broad consonants

The tongue-back posture of ṣ and ṭ is close to an Irish broad consonant, and plain s and t to a slender one. Use that feel to hear "bó" against "beo".

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