Lesson 23 of 30
Hamzat al-wasl
Know when the opening hamzah is dropped.
What this lesson introduces
- The connecting hamzah
Practice between lessons
Progress at this stage tracks almost exactly with whether this happens.
- Read a phrase joining two words
- Contrast starting and continuing
Learn this with a tutor
The Qaida is the one stage where self-teaching reliably goes wrong, because an error in a letter sound is invisible to the person making it. A tutor hears it on the first attempt.