Lesson 19 of 30
Shaddah
Read a doubled letter as one stressed letter.
What this lesson introduces
- The shaddah mark
Practice between lessons
Progress at this stage tracks almost exactly with whether this happens.
- Read words with shaddah
- Contrast with the same word unshaddad
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.