Lesson 1 of 30
The Arabic letters
Recognise and name all twenty-nine letters in their isolated form.
What this lesson introduces
- The 29 letters in order
- Letters distinguished only by dots
Practice between lessons
Progress at this stage tracks almost exactly with whether this happens.
- Name each letter aloud from a chart
- Sort the letters that differ only by dots
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.