All practice
Practice
Letters and reading
الحروف
Meet all 28 letters, give them their vowel marks, and watch them join into a word. Nothing to sign up for, and nothing to get wrong.
The alphabet
Meet the letters
Tap any letter to hear Esa say it, and see its name, its sound and the shape it takes at the start, middle and end of a word.
ا
Alif
Sounds like a long “aa”, as in “father”.
- اOn its own
- اAt the start
- ـاIn the middle
- ـاAt the end
Never joins the letter after it.
Vowel marks
One letter, three sounds
Tap a vowel mark and watch it land on the letter. Then try another letter.
Read it as
ba
Fatḥah: a small slanted line above the letter, read as a short “a”.
Try another letter
How Arabic is written
One word, letter by letter
Arabic letters change shape when they join. Here is how the everyday greeting is built, in three steps.
- Mīm“m”
- Rāʼ“r”never joins the letter after it
- Ḥāʼ“ḥ”
- Bāʼ“b”
- Alif“ā”
مَرْحَبًا
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