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

Your native language (العربية) quietly pushes you into specific Italian 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

p vs b (pasta, not basta)

Arabic has no /p/, so pasta/basta and pane/bene-type pairs blur. /p/ is b without the voice — practice minimal pairs out loud.

from your first language

"to be" cannot be dropped

Arabic omits the copula in the present; Italian always needs essere: "la casa È grande".

from your first language

e/i and o/u are different words

Arabic's three vowel qualities merge pairs Italian keeps apart: vento vs vinto (wind vs won), botta vs butta. Train e/i and o/u as separate target sounds.

from your first language

Plurals by vowel ending, not pattern

No broken plurals here: Italian swaps the final vowel (libro→libri, casa→case) with one regular rule per gender. Simpler than Arabic — but the article changes too (il→i, la→le).

from your first language

un/una gets dropped

Arabic has definite al- but no indefinite article, so un/una tends to vanish. Italian needs an article with almost every noun.

core challenge

Gender + agreement

Articles and adjectives agree: il libro rosso / la casa rossa.

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