Makharij Training for New Muslims — Female Teacher
Makharij Training for new muslims, taught with a female teacher in 45-minute lessons, 1–3 lessons a week. Focused work on articulation points, for letters that never sound quite right.
45-minute lessons1–3 per weekFemale teacher
Lesson length and why
Forty-five minutes, with time set aside for questions. Nothing is assumed as already known, including vocabulary other students take for granted.
Where most students start
No Arabic, and often no background knowledge to hang it on. Frequently learning to pray at the same time as learning to read.
What is expected at home
None.
How long it takes
Makharij Training typically runs 8–20 weeks at 1–3 lessons a week. The range is wide because it moves with revision between lessons more than with anything that happens in them.
What is covered
- 1Throat letters
- 2Tongue letters
- 3Lip letters
- 4The letters English speakers find hardest
What usually gets in the way
Specific to new muslims — these are the things that actually derail progress for this group.
- Being taught by people who assume prior knowledge
- Terminology used without explanation
- Needing salah before reading fluency
By the end
- Each letter produced from its correct point
- Dad, ‘ayn and qaf under control