...
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 ...
out
, only
too late. that the attempt to assimilate both grammar and
the
alphabet simultaneously is simply
too
taxing. Genuine mastery
of
the
alphabet ought to be a prerequisite to learning...