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    This document discusses common errors made by Arabic speakers when learning English. It provides 5 examples of errors: 1) confusion of the /f/ and /v/ sounds; 2) doubling of consonants in words like "allow"; 3) incorrect use of prepositions like "on", "by", and "with"; 4) incorrect use of pronouns like "mine" and "ours"; and 5) omitting forms of the verb "to be" in sentences. For each error, the document explains how features of the Arabic language can cause speakers to make these mistakes in English.

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    This document discusses common errors made by Arabic speakers when learning English. It provides 5 examples of errors: 1) confusion of the /f/ and /v/ sounds; 2) doubling of consonants in words like "allow"; 3) incorrect use of prepositions like "on", "by", and "with"; 4) incorrect use of pronouns like "mine" and "ours"; and 5) omitting forms of the verb "to be" in sentences. For each error, the document explains how features of the Arabic language can cause speakers to make these mistakes in English.

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    This document discusses common errors made by Arabic speakers when learning English. It provides 5 examples of errors: 1) confusion of the /f/ and /v/ sounds; 2) doubling of consonants in words like "allow"; 3) incorrect use of prepositions like "on", "by", and "with"; 4) incorrect use of pronouns like "mine" and "ours"; and 5) omitting forms of the verb "to be" in sentences. For each error, the document explains how features of the Arabic language can cause speakers to make these mistakes in English.

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    Student name: Abdullah Almokhtar

    Student number: 3103016

    Errors in English among Arabic speaker


    In this papers, I will give five examples on the common errors in English
    among Arabic speakers. Fallowed by explanation or the reason, that
    coasted.

    1- /f/ and /v/ as in /fa:st/ fast and /va:st/ vast


    Some of the English consonant sounds are not found in
    standard Arabic phonemes, while the manner of articulating
    others, e.g. /t/,/d/,/n/,/r/ is different from their Arabic
    counterparts. In example 1 are the main areas which,
    constitute the main difficulties encountered by Arab learners
    of English.
    Many of those confusions result from the Arab learners not
    recognizing the voiced-voiceless distinction for these sounds.
    In Arabic /v/ occurs in borrowed words only, and /f/ is often
    used for both sounds in English pronunciation.

    2- /a'lao/ allow,/im'baeres/ embarrass.


    Although English has much orthographic doubling of
    consonants sounds, these tend to be pronounced as a single
    constant sound, as we sow in the example.
    Because doubling is a feature of Arabic pronunciation, so this
    tends to make Arabic learners double the pronunciation of
    English consonants, especially when they meet them in written

    English. So /a'lau/ allow becomes /eal-lau/. Note also here the


    strong pronunciation of the first vowel.

    3- On his way to us becomes in his way to us. By the train


    becomes with the train. Pleased with becomes pleased from.

    Many English words collocate with special prepositions that are


    unpredictable, and have to be learnt as phrases.
    The basic and most common sense of each English preposition is
    presented to Arab learners first, and then other uses are added
    later on. The student at once equates this first meaning with
    Arabic preposition, and develops a strong tendency to use that
    equation all the time. Thus:
    In his way to us, under the influence of Arabic ()
    With the train, under the influence of Arabic ()
    Pleased from, under the influence of Arabic () .

    4- Pronouns mine, ours etc.

    Often Arab student refer back to the plural noun with it's
    under the impression it is the plural of it.

    The reason is that mine, ours etc. are not very commonly used,
    and often wrongly (i.e. followed by a noun): this is due to the
    absence of this form of pronoun in Arabic.

    5- Ahmed in the house. The boy active. Ahmed engineer.

    This kind of mistake is frequently made by Arab learners of


    English in the earlier stage of a curse. These errors doses not
    persist in the more advanced stages of learning.
    The reason of these errors is the absence in Arabic nominal
    sentences in the present tense of an equivalent English verb to
    be.
    Ahmed in the house instead of Ahmed is in the house.
    The boy active instead of the boy is an active.
    Ahmed engineer instead of Ahmed is an engineer.

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