Vocabulary Cards — Session 24: My Home Picture Menu

Print this page. Cut along the dotted lines. Each card is index-card sized. This session is a review project — these two new words tie together everything you've learned in Level 2. Tape them to the rooms and items you label around your home.

Card 1

Say it: QAA-i-ma Means: List / menu

🎨 Picture: A restaurant-style menu held open, with little drawings of bread, cheese, and a cup of tea down the side.

Use it when: You're writing down what's for dinner. You're making a shopping list with mama. You're at a restaurant and the waiter hands you the menu. You're listing the rooms in your house for this project.

This is the word for the menu at a restaurant — and also for any list you write. Your home project today is a qa'ima of your house.

Card 2

Say it: BAY-tee Means: My house / my home

🎨 Picture: A child standing in front of a Levantine apartment building with a balcony, pointing up and smiling. Laundry hanging, a potted plant, an open window.

Use it when: You're showing someone where you live. You're telling a friend "come to my house." You're labeling the cover of your home menu project. You walk in the door after school and say, "I'm home."

That little ـي at the end means "my." You can add it to lots of words: kitabi (my book), ummi (my mom), bayti (my home).

Card 3 (review)

Say it: GHUR-fa Means: Room

🎨 Picture: A simple floor plan with little squares labeled — bedroom, kitchen, living room.

Use it when: You're labeling each room of your home menu. You're telling someone where something is. "It's in my room." "Which room?"

Card 4 (review)

Say it: MAT-bakh Means: Kitchen

🎨 Picture: A bright kitchen with a pot of something on the stove, a cutting board with tomatoes and parsley, a kettle.

Use it when: You're labeling the kitchen in your home menu. Teta is cooking and you want to find her. You smell something delicious and follow your nose.

Card 5 (review)

Say it: KHUBZ Means: Bread

🎨 Picture: A stack of warm pita bread, one piece torn open showing the pocket inside.

Use it when: You're drawing food on your menu page. Mama asks what you want with your hummus. You're at the bakery and the smell hits you.

Card 6 (review)

Say it: YAD Means: Hand

🎨 Picture: A child's hand traced on paper, with each finger labeled.

Use it when: You're labeling parts of the body in your menu. You wash your hands before eating. You wave hello.

A bonus card — tying it all together

Card 7 (bonus)

Say it: HAA-da BAY-tee Means: This is my home.

🎨 Picture: A child opening the front door wide, gesturing inside. Shoes lined up by the door, slippers waiting.

Use it when: You're showing the cover page of your home menu project to your family. A friend comes over for the first time. You're proud of where you live and you want to say so.

This is the whole project in three words. هَذا (this) بَيتي (my home). Put it on the front of your menu.

How to use these cards

1. Tape them up around your home. Matbakh on the kitchen door. Ghurfa on your bedroom. Khubz on the bread basket. Live inside the words.
2. Build your menu page by page. One card = one page of your home guidebook. Draw the room or item, write the Arabic, write the English.
3. Quiz your family. Hand a card to baba and ask him to find the thing it names. Heritage kids — this is your moment to teach back.
4. Keep the cards after the project ends. This is the end of Level 2. These words are yours now.

On finishing Level 2

You've come a long way. You started Level 1 saying marhaba and yalla. Now you can name the rooms of your house, the food on your table, the parts of your body, the times of your day.

Look at your home menu when it's done. Every label is a word you didn't know a few months ago.

That's bayti in Arabic. That's yours forever.

Yalla Arabic · Vocabulary Cards · Session 24