Arabic 03

lesson two – seven letters. ha kha and jim are just distinguished by the position of dots. Ha without, kha above and jim before/on the right. I think it could be a right-to-left J. Ayn and ghain also distinguished by dot above ghain which sounds like a rolling r on i-cias but arabic keyboard calls it the gh in Ghandi. Ayn, without a dot, comes from the back of the throat.
ta mabuta not really a letter. Lam is easy, like a right-to-left letter L ought to be.

Here’s an introduction to forming letters which states in Russian that the exercise ought to produce some discomfort. Which strikes me as odd…