>It got so much easier. I wished that they could do that with more words, preferably all the words. Even better would be if I could have a link to each letter, with more information about that letter.
Do not do this! It feels easier in the beginning but it is to your detriment. The start up cost is slightly higher, but learning to treat each member of the Arabic abjad as a sound specific to that word will help you think in the dialect of Arabic you're targeting much faster.
There are tons and tons of YouTube videos about the Arabic script. Don't skip it!
Sounds like you know the subject, maybe you could explain a bit more. I'm confused as to why formatting the text without linked letters would prevent you from learning the sounds. In most languages cursive (linked letters) is not obligatory, and people learn the sounds before cursive. Why would that be a problem in Arabic?
It’s not that it will prevent you from learning the sounds themselves, it’s that it will take you longer to learn to read Arabic text that you’ve never encountered before. Part of what makes language learning difficult is the perceived lack of progress. The only way to overcome this is to ensure that your learning is as efficient as possible. That means using as few “intermediate representations” as possible — they take time to learn and, even worse, they take time to unlearn.
Do not do this! It feels easier in the beginning but it is to your detriment. The start up cost is slightly higher, but learning to treat each member of the Arabic abjad as a sound specific to that word will help you think in the dialect of Arabic you're targeting much faster.
There are tons and tons of YouTube videos about the Arabic script. Don't skip it!