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Lesson 4 of 30

Joining letters

Read letters in their initial, medial and final forms.

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What is introduced, and what to practise

What this lesson introduces

  • Four forms of each letter
  • How shapes change when joined

Practice between lessons

Progress at this stage tracks almost exactly with whether this happens.

  • Match joined words to their isolated letters
  • Write your own name in Arabic

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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.

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What does lesson 4 cover?

Read letters in their initial, medial and final forms. It is lesson 4 of thirty in the Noorani Qaida sequence.

What is new in this lesson?

Four forms of each letter and How shapes change when joined.

What should be practised afterwards?

Match joined words to their isolated letters and Write your own name in Arabic.

Can the lessons be taken out of order?

They are numbered because each assumes the sounds from the one before. Skipping ahead usually shows up later as guessing rather than reading.

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