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How to Speak With a Middle Eastern Accent

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Asma Irdina Bt AzmiLG2431Ci Article's Summary                This article explains about how to speak with a Middle Eastern Accent. There's a slighltly different accent in English among the Middle Eastern speakers. One of the most basic ways to think about how a language sounds is to think about what part of the mouth and throat people use to produce that language's words. While in English sounds come from the mouth and nose-leading Middle Easterners to think that English sounds nasal-Middle Eastern, or Semitic, languages speak with the throat. One thing common to Middle Eastern speech is that it does not produce a "th" sound, as in the word "through." The result is that Middle Easterners, even ones who speak very good English, stumble over the "th," if they can produce it at all. So, to speak with a Middle Eastern accent, make your "th" into a hard "t" or into an "s" sound. The Middle Eastern speakers usually replace /v/ by /f/ or /b/ because this sound does not exist in their native language sound system. Next, in English we have 12-vowel system that contrasts tense long vowels and lax short vowels whereas Arabic they have 6-vowel system that contrasts long and short vowels. 

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Asma Irdina Bt AzmiLG2431Ci Article's Summary                This article explains about how to speak with a Middle Eastern Accent. There's a slighltly different accent in English among the Middle Eastern speakers. One of the most basic ways to think about how a language sounds is to think about what part of the mouth and throat people use to produce that language's words. While in English sounds come from the mouth and nose-leading Middle Easterners to think that English sounds nasal-Middle Eastern, or Semitic, languages speak with the throat. One thing common to Middle Eastern speech is that it does not produce a "th" sound, as in the word "through." The result is that Middle Easterners, even ones who speak very good English, stumble over the "th," if they can produce it at all. So, to speak with a Middle Eastern accent, make your "th" into a hard "t" or into an "s" sound. The Middle Eastern speakers usually replace /v/ by /f/ or /b/ because this sound does not exist in their native language sound system. Next, in English we have 12-vowel system that contrasts tense long vowels and lax short vowels whereas Arabic they have 6-vowel system that contrasts long and short vowels. 

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Nurul Liyana Aqilah binti Khafidz LG243Ci ( Article's summary)

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Nurul Liyana Aqilah binti Khafidz LG243Ci ( Article's summary)

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This article gives an explanation about the common spelling  error made by the Arabic and how it can lead to the confusion and misunderstandings for the non middle east english speakers. One of the most common confusion happened because Middle East English speakers tend to pronounce P as B. For example, Pizza Hut is pronounced as Bizza Hut, peace is pronounced as beace and park is pronounced as bark. Middle east english has gone through the process of nativization hence native speakers tend to speak and spell English close to their mother-tongue language.

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Differences between English and Arabic Phonology - LanguageLinguistics

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Nur Liyana Aqilah binti Rosli LG243Ci (Article's Summary)

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Nur Liyana Aqilah binti Rosli LG243Ci (Article's Summary)

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This article clarifies about the difference between Standard English's and Middle-Eastern English's phonological. It stated about the number of consonant sounds where where Arabic sound system has 1.3 times as many sounds compared to English. The article also explained that in Middle East English, it does not differentiate between the voiceless and voiced sound pairs like /p/and /b/, /g/ and /k/, and /f/ and /v/. These are not distinct phonemes but allophones in Arabic. It also stated that there are consonant cluster reduction in Arabic English where epenthetic short vowels are inserted between consonant. For example, the word "Street" is pronounced as "Sitireet" where the vowel "i" are in between the consonant cluster "str". Thus, explaining why the Arabic English are difference compared to Standard English in the term of phonology.

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 Ayub Iskandar Bin Abdul Wahab History and background of Middle Eastern English Lg2431CI (article summary) 

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 Ayub Iskandar Bin Abdul Wahab History and background of Middle Eastern English Lg2431CI (article summary) 

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This article tells you about the history and background of Middle Eastern English. In this article you can see that there are several important point that been highlighted to show you about Middle Eastern English. There are about 14 countries in the middle east such as qatar, syria, iraq and many more. Not to forget that arabic also have their own varieties of arabic. So that can influenced the way each of them speaks english. The way they speaks english can also be different because of their age and their education level. In middle east, English is used as 'lingua franca' and they teach and used standard english in school. Nowadays there are a lot of English newspapers been published in middle east countries whether in the paper form or in online. This shows that English is now commonly used in middle east country.

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This article describes the etymology of a number of words that came from the arabic language (and some persian words) that have been added to the english vocabulary. it helped provide a basis to what the presenter needed relay to the audience in how languages in the middle east communicated with english.

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It's also one of the most ancient, varied and beautifully scripted languages in existence.

Its influence on Spanish since the time of the Moors is well known, but what's less well known is how many commonly used English words were actually taken from Arabic.

Here are just thirteen.

One of the most important words in the English language actually comes from the Arabic al-kuhl, (the kohl) which is a form of eyeliner.

Because the cosmetic was made via an extraction process from a mineral, European chemists began to refer to anything involving extraction / distillation as alcohol.

And that's how the "alcohol of wine" (i.e. the spirit you get from distilling wine) got its name.

From the Arabic al-jabr, which describes a reunion of broken parts, the use of the term came from a 9th century Arabic treatise on math.

The author's name was al-Khwarizmi, which became the mathematical term algorithm.

The classical Arabic word, al-harshafa, became al-karshufa in Arabic-speaking Spain.

It has been adopted into French as artichaut, Italian as carciofo, Spanish as alcachofa, and English as artichoke.

Qand refers to crystallised juice of sugar cane, which is where Americans derive their word candy.

It originally came from Sanksrit, and was adopted into Arabic via the Persian language.

Arabia originally got coffee from eastern Africa and called it qahwah.

Then it went to Turkey - kahve.

Then the Italians - caffè.

And finally, it arrived in Britain as coffee.

This plant is originally native to India and Central/South America,

This word is derived from the Arabic makzin, which means storehouse.

We got it from the French ( magasin, meaning shop), who got it from the Italians ( magazzino), who got it from the Arabic.

Sleeping on cushions was actually an Arabic invention.

Were it not for Arabic matrah, a place where the cushions were thrown down, the Europeans would never have adopted materacium / materatium (Latin) which passed through Italian into English as mattress.

Originally from South and East Asia, oranges were known in Sanskrit as naranga.

This became the Persian narang, which became the Arabic naranj.

Arabic traders brought oranges to Spain, which led to the Spanish naranja.

Then it went into old French as un norenge, then new French as une orenge.

Then we took it from the French and it became orange.

Safari is the Swahili word for an expedition, which is how it has become so associated with African bush and game tourism.

However, that Swahili word came from the Arabic safar, which means journey.

The Arabic word suffa referred to a raised, carpeted platform on which people sat.

The word passed through the Turkish language to join English as sofa.

Arabic traders brought sugar to Western Europe, calling it sukkar (originally from teh Sanskrit sharkara).

And last but not least...

Italian mathematician Fibonacci introduced the concept of zero to the Europeans in the 13th century.

He grew up in North Africa, and learned the Arabic word sifr, which means empty or nothing.

He Latinised it to zephrum, which became the Italian zero.

Because Roman numerals couldn't express zero, he borrowed the number from Arabic.

Now, all our digits are known as Arabic numerals.

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Arabic is one of the five most spoken languages in the world, with some 400 million users. It's also one of the most ancient, varied and beautifully scripted languages in existence. Its influence on Spanish since the time of the Moors is well known, but what's less well known is how many commonly used English words were actually taken from Arabic.