مدخل ⬅️ · خروج ➡️ · ممنوع 🚫 · مفتوح ✅ · مغلق ⛔

Entrance, exit, forbidden, open, closed. Note the م at the front of three of them.

🎒 What you need

paper and a pen
permission to walk with an adult
your eyes

✋ Do this

Learn the five words and write each one three times, joined, right to left.
Notice ممنوع — mamnūʿ — forbidden — has your م prefix and your ع from module 4. You can now read it from parts you already know.
Go out with an adult and look for Arabic on shopfronts, mosque noticeboards, imported packaging, medicine boxes and any signage near you.
Copy every piece of Arabic you find, exactly, joined, right to left.
Sound out each one aloud. For any word you cannot read, circle the letters you DO recognise. That partial reading is real progress.
Make five cards with the sign words and put them on the right doors in your own home. Leave them there.

💡 Why it works

Sign vocabulary repeats constantly and is written in large clear type, making it the ideal first real reading material. Partial decoding — recognising some letters in an unknown word — is also exactly what a developing reader does, and practising it deliberately speeds everything up.

🔥 Challenge

Find one piece of Arabic writing nobody else nearby can read, and read it to them.

📖 New words

مدخل madkhalentrance

خروج khurūjexit

ممنوع mamnūʿforbidden

مفتوح maftūḥopen

مغلق mughlaqclosed

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Street Reader

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