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Question assalamou alaikoum. First of all,
jazakoumoullahu khairan for this wonderful website, it's really helping me a
lot in learning how to pronounce letters and to learn tajweed. I am having
problems with a few letters, the sheen, the yaa and the laam...as for the
sheen and yaa, it says on the website that the middle of the tongue has to
touch the roof of the mouth, but no matter how much I try, I can't seem to
make my tongue touch the roof of my mouth when I pronounce these letters, is
there a technique I can use to make this happen? usually I feel that the
middle of the tongue just rises up but never touches the roof of my mouth, and
if I do get it to touch it, the sound isn't right. As
for the laam, my tongue has to be flat and touch only the roof of my mouth
from the front, until the sides of the teeth, or does the tongue have to touch
the teeth also? jazakoumoullahu
khairan for all Answer Wa alaikum
assalaam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, May Allah
reward you for your nice comments and may He increase you in beneficial
knowledge. Both the letter
and
the letter
use the middle part of the tongue and the
roof of the mouth, but because each of these two letters have the
characteristic of running of the sound, they do not occlude the articulation
point. You should be able to feel
the tongue rise up, but you will not feel a strong feeling of touch, even
though the middle of the tongue meets the roof of the mouth.
The touching of letter
which
shares the same articulation point can be felt much stronger since the letter
doesn’t not have running of the sound and therefore the articulation point
is occluded. Don’t try to force the feeling of touching for the and , or you will end up with an incorrect sound by changing the characteristics. In the letter
, the sides of the tongue until they end at the
tip hit the gums of the eight upper front teeth.
The sides until the tip (sort of a “U” shape area of articulation)
do not touch the roof of the mouth nor do they touch the teeth.
This letter takes practice for the non-Arab to perfect.
The motion of the sides until the tip of the tongue to the gums is an
upward movement, with a solid unison hit of the “U” shape line of
the sides of the tongue until where they end at the tip to the gums. Insha’ Allah
this helps you understand these different letters better. Wa iyyaakum. Wa assalaam
alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh. |