Shadee Elmasry – 26. The Two Ways of Pronouncing the Laam
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The lamb is pronounced in two different ways. So cream is so
pronounced it like the heavy L in Lion, okay enter key is to soften
it right with the tongue should
soften it with the tongue touching the roof of the mouth behind the
teeth as heard in Spanish lamb. So you have two in one in English and
one in Spanish while both exists in Arabic, like you have Allah
easy, right? Because it's the easier land that the land that is
that is fat and that is the tongue coming out of the mouth look like
Lamb Lion. Okay. And then you have the L sound that you find in some
European language and in Spanish. Okay.
That is the teeth the tip of the tongue touching the back of the
teeth. Okay, so we could say Abu Lahab Abu Lahab Abu Lahab right or
the tongue touching the roof of the mouth Abu Lahab right you
don't say Abu Lahab it's not like that. So it's lamb right and let a
lot and mainly it's in Allah
and then very few times like in worse it's more often they'll say
salah, Salah, not solid Salah No. So you have Salah in worse Salah
in halfs so in most cases it will be the lighter lamb, which again,
an English speaker would have to learn to pronounce because we're
we're used to saying the thicker. L as in Lion