SAH Academy
SAH Academy

Learning to Read

The Arabic script and its sounds: read the letters, join them, say them correctly

  • Beginner
  • About 30 min
  • 3 modules

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By the end you’ll be able to
  • Recognise all 28 letters in initial, medial, final and isolated form
  • Read any vowelled word aloud without guessing
  • Tell a long vowel from a short one by sound
About this course

The starting point for everything else here. You learn the twenty-eight letters in all four of their shapes, the short and long vowels, and how to read a whole word aloud without hesitating.

What’s in it
  1. The letters6 steps
    • How the script works · Writing the letters · The non-joining six · Sample · Putting letters together · Check: shapes and joinsPreview
  2. Short and long vowels5 steps
    • Fatḥah, kasrah, ḍammah · Hear the three vowels · Check: short vowels · The letters of madd · Short against long
  3. Reading whole words3 steps
    • Read along: first words · Reading check · Letter chart (PDF)