Letters
Stage 1 — the 28 letters, the shapes they share, how they change inside a word, and where in the mouth each sound is made.
Arabic is written right to left, and the letters are joined like handwriting. That sounds like two problems; it’s really one shape per letter that changes its ending depending on its neighbours.
Good news before we start: an Uzbek speaker already owns some of the “hard” sounds — x (خ), g‘ (غ) and q (ق) are in your mouth every day.
- lesson 1الأَبْجَدِيَّةThe 28 letters
Every letter with its name, its sound and a word you already know.
- lesson 2الأُسَرShape families
Nine skeletons, told apart by dots — learn 15 shapes instead of 28.
- lesson 3الأَشْكَالLetters in a word
How a letter changes at the start, middle and end, and the six that never join.
- lesson 4المَخَارِجWhere sounds come from
Throat, tongue, lips, nose — a map of the mouth for the hard letters.
When this stage is done you can name every letter on a page of Arabic, even if you can’t read the words yet. Next stage: Vowels.
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