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Al-dirassa centre has developed a series of free courses to learn easily and quickly the Arabic alphabet.  It is an easy alphabet, and there are no difficulties to learn it online with the al-dirassa centre.

The Arabic alphabet is an abjad, that is to say, a writing system noting only the engravings (or not much). It has 28 letters and is written horizontally from right to left.

The Arabic alphabet consists of 28 basic letters and a series of special characters and diacritics. It is written in a cursive fashion, and, unlike the Latin alphabet, Arabic is read from right to left.

Linguists consider the Arabic alphabet to be an abjad, a writing system that contains no vowel. Although this was originally true, today, there are two ways of indicating vowels. Long vowels are represented by weak consonants (ا (alif), و (waaw), and ي (yaa)), and optional diacritics, called harakat, provide short vowel sounds and better cues for the pronunciation.

There are no upper or lower case letters in Arabic as there is in the Latin alphabet. However, since Arabic writing is cursive and connected, each letter has a different shape depending on its position in a word. A letter can have four shapes: the isolated shape, the initial shape, the medial shape, and the final shape. There are, however, exceptions for the letters ا (alif), د (daal), ذ (dhaal), ر (raa), ز (zayn / zaa), and و (waaw) which are called selfish letters because they do not relate to other letters. These letters can exist in isolated or final form, depending on their position.

The fact that the Arabic script is cursive allowed the appearance of ligatures, two separate letters written in a joint form, and other modified letters.

Arabic is not the only language that uses Arabic abjad. Other languages ​​such as Persian, Ottoman (ancient Turkish), Sindhi, Urdu, Malay and Pashto also use it, but with some modifications.

Reading practice | Arabic Free course | lesson 8

Wednesday, 09 December 2020 by al-dirassa
Arabic reading practice
Introduction In this 8th lesson to learn Arabic, we will practice with all the concepts seen previously to practice reading words in Arabic. To recap the points we studied: Presentation of the Arabic alphabet The short vowel marks Double end-of-word vowels – tanween Long vowel marks The absence of a vowel – the sukoon The
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Joined form of Arabic letters | Arabic Free course | lesson 7

Tuesday, 08 December 2020 by al-dirassa
Arabic alphabet joined form
Introduction In this 7th lesson, we will see the joined form of Arabic letters to learn the Arabic alphabet. In the previous lesson, we saw the letters of the Arabic alphabet in their isolated form, which means that they were not related to each other. The linked form of the letters of the Arabic alphabet
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The Shaddah | Arabic Free course | lesson 6

Monday, 07 December 2020 by al-dirassa
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We previously studied in our series of alphabet arabic free courses: the letters of the Arabic alphabet short vowel marks the tanween long vowel marks the Sukoon We will see in this 6th lesson, the doubling of the Arabic letter. That is to say when an Arabic letter carrying a Sukoon and followed by the
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Sukoon | Arabic Free course | lesson 5

Sunday, 06 December 2020 by al-dirassa
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Introduction Welcome to our 5th lesson of the Arabic free course. Previously we already studied the letters of the Arabic alphabet, short vowel marks, tanween, and long vowel marks. In our new lesson, we discuss the absence of vowel – the sukoon. We saw previously how to vocalize with a short vowel mark (a –
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The long vowel marks | Arabic Free course | lesson 4

Saturday, 05 December 2020 by al-dirassa
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Introduction In this 4th lesson to learn the Arabic alphabet for free, we will see that the Arabic language words use long vowel marks. We have previously seen short vowels and tanween in Arabic. Long vowel marks represent the following sounds ALIF AL-MADD: “A” long sound. WAW AL-MADD: “OO” long sound. YA AL-MADD: “EE” long
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Tanween | The double vowel marks | lesson 3

Friday, 04 December 2020 by al-dirassa
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Introduction In the previous lesson to learn Arabic, we come across a second type of vowel used to vocalize consonants. We have previously seen the short vowels of the Arabic alphabet. We will now see the end-of-word vowels, also called tanween in Arabic. Double vowels are signs marking the end of words only. They are
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Short vowels marks | Arabic alphabet free course | lesson 2

Monday, 30 November 2020 by al-dirassa
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We have studied in the previous lesson how to spell the letters of the Arabic alphabet. Thus, this second lesson for learning the Arabic alphabet will discuss a new kind of vowels: short vowels marks. The short vowels of the Arabic alphabet There are 3 in Arabic: Short Arabic vowels marks correspond in English to
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Arabic alphabet |Free Arabic course | Lesson 1

Wednesday, 25 November 2020 by al-dirassa
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Introduction Are you passionate about learning new languages? Are you planning to learn the Arabic Alphabet? You just made the right and important decision in your life to learn how to write the Arabic Alphabet. You are going to be astonished at how quickly you’ll learn and grab the pace. The Arabic language is quite
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