Lesson 18 of 30
The qalqalah letters
Bounce the five letters when they carry sukun.
What this lesson introduces
- ق ط ب ج د
Practice between lessons
Progress at this stage tracks almost exactly with whether this happens.
- Read qalqalah letters mid-word
- Stop on a qalqalah letter at a word end
Rules that start to matter here
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.