Lesson 4 of 30
Joining letters
Read letters in their initial, medial and final forms.
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
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.