The Sociable Letters

Description : A dialogue takes place between two pages in a book. The Arabic page explains how the Arabic letters are all linked together when they are written down, fo they do not take much space on paper and most of the Arabic words are short ones. The English language explains how each of its letters is independent and starts asking the Arabic language about its letter-pointing and vowel-pointing systems. The story shows the benefits of each language while labeling the Arabic language as a sociable language which is regarded as a language of unity despite the fact that not all of its letters link in writing.

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Keywords : Children literature, Our Beautiful Language, the Arabic dictionary, the sociable letters, the Arabic letters, the English letters, letter-pointing, vowel-pointing

Type : An educational story

Relations : It is one of eight stories in the collection Our Beautiful Language: Grammar Stories

Coverage : The story is about the benefits of each of the Arabic ana English langugae and how the Arabic language is a sociable one because of its linking nature

Language and Age : In Arabic for age 11-12

Publishing Rights : The writer and Al-Dar Al-Masriah Al-Lubnaniah, Cairo

Publisher and Place : Al-Dar Al-Masriah Al-Lubnaniah, Cairo

Publication Date : 2000

E-Format : 23 pages in Arabic