The 28 letters
Every letter of the Arabic alphabet — its name, its sound, its four shapes, and one everyday word to hear it in.
Here they are, in order, starting from the right. Tap a letter: you hear its name, and the card below shows its sound, its shapes, and a word to hear it in — most of them you already know from Uzbek.
alifأَلِف
Alif has no sound of its own. At the start of a word it carries a hamza (a short catch in the throat); in the middle it stretches the vowel before it into a long ā.
A letter’s name is not its sound
The name of is bāʾ, but on the page it just says b. Learn the names so you can talk about letters; learn the sounds so you can read. The row of syllables on each card — — is what you’ll actually say.
Heavy and light
The orange dot marks the seven heavy letters: خ ص ض غ ط ق ظ. Say them with the back of your tongue lifted, as if your mouth were full — the vowel after them turns darker. Compare light with heavy , light with heavy .
How to learn them
- Day 1–2: names, in order. Press hear all 28 and say them along.
- Day 3–4: sounds. Go card by card and repeat each syllable three times.
- Day 5: the quiz below, until you get 8 or more.
10 sounds. Listen, then pick what you heard — no reading the answer first.
Seven letters look alike in pairs and triplets — that’s the next lesson, and it makes this one a lot easier.
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