#arabic
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The three short vowels — a stroke above for a, a stroke below for i, a small wāw above for u — on every letter, with sound.
Stage 1 — the 28 letters, the shapes they share, how they change inside a word, and where in the mouth each sound is made.
How a letter changes at the start, middle and end of a word — and the six letters that never join to the one after them.
Alif, wāw and yāʾ stretch the short vowels into ā, ū and ī — two beats instead of one.
Stage 3 — from syllables to whole words, the article al-, the spellings that only show up at the end of a word, and a reading test made of words Uzbek borrowed.
A course I built for myself and my friends — from the first letter of the Arabic alphabet to reading words on your own, with a voice behind every letter, syllable and word.
How to read an unfamiliar Arabic word — split it into syllables, read each one, then say it whole.
Most Arabic letters come in families that share one skeleton and differ only by dots. Learn nine shapes and the dot rules, not 28 separate letters.
Tāʾ marbūṭa, alif maqṣūra, the seats of hamza and lām-alif — the spellings that trip up new readers.
The sukūn — a small circle meaning "no vowel here" — and the shadda, a small w that doubles its letter.
The doubled vowel marks at the end of a word, which add an n — -an, -in, -un.
Every letter of the Arabic alphabet — its name, its sound, its four shapes, and one everyday word to hear it in.
The article al- means “the”. Before half the alphabet it keeps its l (moon letters); before the other half the l melts into a doubled letter (sun letters).
Stage 2 — the small marks above and below the letters that supply the vowels, the pause and the doubling.
The makhārij — the points in the throat, tongue, lips and nose where each Arabic sound is made, with a map you can press.
The finish line — Arabic words that became Uzbek words, with no Latin and no sound. Read them, and recognise them.