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This letter sounds like the "th" of "the other".
Don't confuse it with the "th" sound of "theater", which is an different
letter altogether (the ث).
In English, these two sounds are both written TH. The slight difference in sound is unimportant, because no two English words differ only in that one of them has a soft TH and the other one a hard TH (well, there's "thy" and "thigh", but "thy" doesn't get much use these days...) So maybe you'll have to learn to hear the difference listening attentively to yourself saying "the other theater": the first two THs are Arabic ذs, the last is a ث.
In Arabic, however, the difference can affect meaning: (th)umma ثم means "then", while (dh)umma ذم means "he was found fault with".
Copyright (c) 2001-2009
Jordi Mas Trullenque.
email: jordimastrullenque at gmail dot com
http://purl.oclc.org/net/arabe/q_d.en.html
Last revised: 2008-03-30
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