Today's post is brought to you by the letter J

I learned the first part of the Arabic alphabet in class today! It's been a long time since I've had to learn a completely different writing system. This'll take some getting used to, especially since Arabic writing goes from right to left. The letters are written a little differently depending on whether they are a single letter (isolated form), or in the beginning, middle, or end of a word. Some letters can only connect to other letters on the right side, so letters that come after have to use the initial or the isolated form. Wikipedia has a chart that does a much better job of explaining it.

One of the letters in the alphabet is pronounced zai and written like so:

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Looks a lot like the letter j in the romance language alphabet, doesn't it? Maybe this is stretching it, but I think the pronounciations are pretty similar too. This is why I love learning languages!