Your first Arabic letters
Tap a card to listen. Read Arabic from right to left.
Pronunciation & joined shapes
Bāʾ · b
Bring your lips together, then release them. It is like the b in “book”.
بAlone
بـBeginning
ـبـMiddle
ـبEnd
Listen to the vowels
Tap a row, then repeat each sound.
َ Fathah aُ Dammah uِ Kasrah iْ Sukun no vowel
Try it yourself
Which letter has one dot below?
1 / 3Choose the matching letter.
Audio credits
Introduction to Arabic by Hana Kassas, Layla Bahar Al-Aloom, Sameera Murtada, Maysaa Toma, and Roula Aoneh. CC BY 4.0. Recordings unchanged.