Lesson 16 of 30
Standing harakat
Read the vertical fathah, kasrah and dammah.
What this lesson introduces
- Standing fathah
- Standing kasrah
- Inverted dammah
Practice between lessons
Progress at this stage tracks almost exactly with whether this happens.
- Read words with standing marks
- Recognise them as two-count lengtheners
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.