Vocabulary Cards — Session 48: Final Celebration

Print this page. Cut along the dotted lines. Each card is index-card sized. These are the LAST cards of Yalla Arabic. Keep them. Tape them in a memory book. You earned them.

Card 1

Say it: ih-ti-FAAL Means: Celebration / party

🎨 Picture: A classroom with balloons, a paper banner that reads يَلّا عَرَبي, kids holding up their family posters and storybooks, smiling big.

Use it when: It's someone's birthday. School has a party at the end of the year. Your family gathers for a big dinner with music and dabke.

Card 2

Say it: sha-HAA-da Means: Certificate

🎨 Picture: A child holding up a paper certificate with both hands, name written in Arabic at the top, a gold sticker in the corner.

Use it when: You finish a course. You win something at school. Your little cousin shows you the swim certificate she got last summer.

Card 3

Say it: MAB-rook! Means: Congratulations!

🎨 Picture: Teta cupping a child's face with both hands, kissing the top of their head. The certificate is on the table behind them.

Use it when: Someone has a new baby. Your friend lost a tooth. Your cousin got a new bike. ANY good thing — big or small — Levantine families say mabruk!

This is the word you'll hear shouted across the room today. Get ready.

Card 4

Say it: ana ta-'al-LAMT Means: I learned

🎨 Picture: A child pointing at a wall covered with everything from the course — alphabet, family tree, map of Lebanon, a short story they wrote.

Use it when: You want to tell baba what you did at school. You finished a book. You figured out how to ride a bike. Ana ta'allamt! — I learned!

Try it today: أنا تَعَلَّمت عَرَبي — I learned Arabic.

Card 5

Say it: SIRT yal-la 'A-ra-bi! Means: I'm Yalla Arabic now!

🎨 Picture: A child standing tall, certificate in one hand, the other hand in a thumbs-up. A speech bubble in Arabic above their head.

Use it when: Someone asks if you speak Arabic. You finish your final story. You walk out of the last session of this course.

You started 48 sessions ago knowing nothing — or knowing only what you heard at sito's house. Now? صِرت يَلّا عَرَبي!

A bonus card — for the family

Card 6 (bonus)

Say it: SHUK-ran Means: Thank you

🎨 Picture: A child handing a small drawing to their teacher (or parent). Both are smiling.

Use it when: Today. Right now. To whoever taught you — your teacher, your mama, your baba, your jiddo who corrected your pronunciation on FaceTime.

Say it to them today. Out loud. شُكراً.

And from us — shukran for trusting Yalla Arabic with your kid.

How to use these cards

1. Don't throw them away. These five cards are the end of a long road. Tape them into a notebook. Put them in the memory box.
2. Show them off. Let your kid hand a card to a grandparent and explain what it means. That's the whole point.
3. Keep using the words. Mabruk and shukran belong in your house forever now. Every birthday. Every small win. Every dinner.
4. Celebrate today. Cake, balloons, a phone call to family overseas — whatever your ihtifal looks like. Your kid did something real.

A note for the grown-ups

48 sessions ago, your child met the letter أ (alif). Today they're reading short stories, describing their home, telling you where they went last summer — in Arabic.

That didn't happen because of us. It happened because you showed up. You read the cards in the car. You said yalla at the door. You corrected the ع gently. You let them be heritage learners or total beginners or both at once.

مَبروك إلكُن كُلكُن. — Mabruk to all of you.

What comes next

The cards stop. The Arabic doesn't.

Keep speaking it at home. Watch a cartoon in Arabic on Friday nights. Call teta. Visit, if you can. Read the little books we recommended one more time, slower.

And whenever your kid says أنا تَعَلَّمت عَرَبي — believe them. Because they did.

Yalla Arabic · Vocabulary Cards · Session 48 · The Final Session مَبروك! 🎉