Alif vs Rasm

Alif Garden makes learning the Arabic alphabet joyful for young children — the very first step toward reading the Qur'an. Through colorful games and clear letter sounds, kids learn to recognize, hear, and pronounce all 28 Arabic letters at their own pace, in a calm garden world with no ads and no distractions. LEARN EVERY LETTER • All 28 Arabic letters with their names and shapes • Hear the correct pronunciation of each letter, again and again • See how each letter is written on its own and joined in a word • Pronunciation practice with a simple mouth-and-throat guide (makharij) • Record your own voice and play it back to compare 8 FUN MINI-GAMES • Pop the Balloons — pop the letter you hear • Memory Matching — find the matching letter pairs • Fishing — catch the right letter from the water • Collect the Letters — drive the car to gather letters • Paint the Letters — color letters with your finger • Sort in Order — put the letters in alphabetical order • Tap the Correct Letter — listen, then tap • Match the Letters — connect names to letter shapes MADE FOR LITTLE LEARNERS • Bright, friendly artwork and a cheerful character • Letters are repeated whenever a child misses, so they always learn the sound • Stars and rewards keep kids motivated • Three difficulty levels grow with your child • Switch letter names between English and Arabic • Optional harakat (vowel marks) for early reading FOR PARENTS • No third-party ads • No links out of the play area • A parents area protected by a simple grown-ups gate • Track which letters your child has learned Start your child's journey with the Arabic alphabet today — one happy letter at a time.

Rasm teaches exactly one skill: reading Arabic script out loud. Not the language. You will not learn what the words mean, and that is on purpose — decoding the script is a separate skill, and it is the one most people never get around to. IT TEACHES THE SHAPES, NOT THE ALPHABET SONG Arabic letters change form depending on where they sit in a word, so the thing you actually have to know is the pair: this letter, in this position. All 34 letters across their 115 positional forms, grouped by the shapes they share rather than by alphabetical order. IT KNOWS WHAT KIND OF MISTAKE YOU MADE Most letters differ only by dots. When you misread one, Rasm can tell you that you read two dots above where there was one below — and it shows you, by lifting the wrong dots off and leaving the bare skeleton on screen for half a second before the right ones land. IT WEANS YOU OFF THE VOWEL MARKS Beginner material is written with harakat; real text is not. Rasm fades them per shape, on a schedule, until you are reading what is actually printed. IT SCHEDULES THE PRACTICE FOR YOU A proven spaced-repetition algorithm (FSRS) decides what comes back and when, from how you actually answer — never from asking you to rate yourself. Five to ten minutes a day. No advertising, no account, no tracking of any kind. Nothing leaves your phone, and it works with the network switched off.