The Gateway to Arabic series is designed to teach Arabic in a non-Arabic-speaking environment to learners from a broad age range. This first set of flashcards has been designed to complement Gateway to Arabic Book One and The Key to Arabic Book One, and will help students learn to recognise all the letters of the Arabic alphabet in their isolate and joined forms, the long and short vowel sounds, tanween, shadda, sukoon and the dipthongs -ay and -ow. The pack comprises 64 double-sided cards in full colour, with each card measuring 148 mm by 105 mm.