...
able
at
least to
read
a menu
or
a
street
sign,
to
understand labels in a
supermarket,
or
to
pay their
Arab
hosts the simple courtesy
of
being able
to
read
and
write
the
names ...
waaw
and
yoo'
also stand for
the
consonants w
and
y.
How
can
you
tell when a
waaw
stands for w
and
when
it stands for a
longuu
,
and
when ayaa' stands for y
and
when ... output
of modem Arabic literature, or simply read a menu
in
an Arab
restaurant, the first step has to
be
the same: tolearnto read,
write, and pronounce the alphabet.
It
is
not
as...