Table of Contents
Introduction 1 About This Book 1
Foolish Assumptions 1
Icons Used in This Book 2
Where to Go from Here 2
Chapter 1: Wrapping Your Mind around the Characters of the Arabic Alphabet 3
A Brief History of the Arabic Language and Its Alphabet 3
What? No Vowels? 4
Connecting the Different Forms of the Letters 4
Why Learn to Write Arabic? 5
Strategies for Learning to Write Arabic Letters 6
Set goals 6
Chapter 2: The Write Stuff 7
Traditional Writing Utensils and Mediums 7
Your Best Options — Pencil and Paper 8
A Fountain of Fonts 8
There’s More than One Way to Write 9
Long Live Cursive Writing! 9
Write, review, rinse, repeat 10
Chapter 3: Characters and Symbols to Practice 11
The Short Vowels 70
Additional Symbols 71
The Long Vowels 72
Phrases in Arabic 73
The Numbers 75
Appendix: Extra Practice Pages 77
