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Arabic Script & Sounds (L1)

CEFR A1 · Start here. The twenty-eight letters and how they connect, the short vowels you can't see, the throat sounds English doesn't have, and why the root system means Arabic vocabulary is decodable.

Professional electiveBeginnerArabicCertificateAligned: CEFR level A1
1 module 12 lessons 16 enrolled ~12h of material

First three lessons free. Full access with Karka Pass from ₹49 for 7 days (7 days ₹49 · 30 days ₹199 · 1 year ₹1,999).

Arabic Script & Sounds (L1)

By the end

What you'll build

  • Read and write the twenty-eight letters in all four positional forms
  • Produce the emphatic and pharyngeal consonants English doesn't have
  • Read unvowelled Arabic text by supplying the short vowels
  • Recognise three-consonant roots and predict related words
  • Understand the relationship between Modern Standard Arabic and the dialects
  • Greet, thank and introduce yourself

Curriculum

What's inside

1 module · 12 lessons

  1. 01

    The Script and the Sounds

    12 lessons
    • Find Your Level — Read This First
    • Find Your Level — 5-Minute Placement Checkquiz
    • How Arabic Writing Works
    • Trace the Arabic Lettersscript trace
    • The Sounds English Doesn't Havepronunciation card
    • + 7 more lessons

The shape of it

How this course works

Short lessons

12 lessons across 1 module, each small enough to finish in one sitting.

Practice as you go

Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.

A certificate at the end

Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.

Ready when you are.

Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.