Yalla Arabic
"Come on, Arabic" — a complete elementary Arabic program from "marhaba" to reading short paragraphs. Designed to work classroom-led OR parent-led at home, with the same materials. Heritage learners and total beginners welcome.
What this course is
Yalla Arabic takes a child from knowing zero Arabic to reading short paragraphs over 48 short sessions. Each session is about 25 minutes — so a family doing 3 sessions a week finishes in roughly 4 months. A classroom doing 2 sessions a week finishes in 6 months. A summer intensive could finish in 10 weeks.
Every session has the same predictable structure: hello → listen & repeat → letter of the day → play with it → tiny reading → goodbye. ND-friendly by design — predictable rhythm, multimodal teaching, no timed assessments.
Five artifacts per session, 240 in total
Every session ships with a session plan (the scripted lesson), vocabulary cards (for the kid's pocket), a dialogue script in Levantine Arabic, a family guide (plain English for parents), and a printable workbook page.
Choose a level
The levels aren't "grades" — a 10-year-old beginner and a 7-year-old heritage kid might both start at Level 1. Each level introduces 7 Arabic alphabet letters; by Level 4, all 28 letters have been learned and used in real reading.
Level 1 — Hello, Arabic!
Greetings, family, basic sounds. Alphabet letters 1–7 (أ ب ت ث ج ح خ).
12 sessions · Ages 5–7
Level 2 — In My Home
Food, body, daily routine. Alphabet letters 8–14 (د ذ ر ز س ش ص).
12 sessions · Ages 6–8
Level 3 — Going Places
Animals, weather, places, colors. Alphabet letters 15–21 (ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق).
12 sessions · Ages 7–9
Level 4 — Reading Stories
Sentences, paragraphs, reading. Alphabet letters 22–28 (ك ل م ن ه و ي).
12 sessions · Ages 8–11
Cultural anchor
Levantine cultural warmth — teta and jiddu, manakish on the table, the Mediterranean, mountain villages. Modern Standard Arabic for reading and writing; Levantine spoken Arabic for conversations. Strictly secular core. No orientalist tropes.
Companion library: Hayya Beena Naqraa stories
By Level 4, kids read real stories from our companion library, Hayya Beena Naqraa — 34 bilingual stories across 5 reading tiers. Yalla Arabic builds the language; Hayya Beena Naqraa puts it to work.