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Practise Arabic letter forms: beginning, middle and end
Most Arabic letters change shape with their place in a word. Drill every form until you recognise it on sight: name a letter from its middle form, pick how it starts a word, or find it by its sound.
The look-alikes are the point
The wrong answers are letters with the same body and different dots: ب, ت, ث, ن and ي, or ج, ح and خ. Telling them apart quickly is what makes reading feel easy.
Shapes and sounds
Some questions show a form, some ask for one, and some play a letter’s sound for you to find. After every answer you see all of the letter’s forms.
The same in every dialect
All the dialects and Fusha share one alphabet, so there is nothing to choose: press Start and play.
Common questions
How long does it take to learn the Arabic letter forms?
A few days of short practice for most learners. The shapes follow a pattern: most letters lose their tail at the start and in the middle of a word, and six never join to the next letter.
Which letters don’t connect?
ا, د, ذ, ر, ز and و. They join to the letter before them but not the one after, so they only have a standalone and an end form.
Should I learn the alphabet first?
Meet the letters first in the interactive alphabet, which teaches each one with its sound. Letter Hunt is the practice that makes them stick.
Try it in your dialect
Egyptian, Levantine, Moroccan Darija or Modern Standard Arabic. Free to start, no card needed.
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