If you've poked around this site before, you know the Languages section — chapter by chapter through Mango's Levantine Arabic course, vocabulary lists, playlists, and plenty of honest moments about how hard learning a language as a busy adult really is.
A quick note before I dive in: I’m kicking this series off right as he turns two, and I already know some of it is probably a little advanced for where he is right now — and that’s completely okay. My plan is to keep circling back to it as he grows and develops over the year (and, if I’m honest, as my own Arabic grows and develops right alongside him). We’ll figure it out together.
A lot has changed since those posts. The biggest change? I'm a mom now! My son is two, and we're starting a brand new language adventure together: I'm teaching him Arabic.
Keeping it real, as always
Let's get the realistic part out of the way first. I'm not a fluent speaker. I'm a busy working parent. There will be no color-coded curriculum, no flashcard drills with a toddler (have you met a two-year-old?), and no promises of a perfectly bilingual kid by kindergarten.
What there will be: songs in the car, Arabic words at the dinner table, books before bed, and me learning right alongside him — usually about two words ahead.
What to expect from this series
Just like the rest of this site, I'll only post what we've actually done — including the failures:
- Weekly posts — one toddler-sized topic each week: what we're working on, what stuck, and what we didn't get to (or completely flopped)
- Resource roundups — the books, songs, and shows that actually hold a toddler's attention
- Little wins — because the first time he uses an Arabic word on his own, the whole internet is going to hear about it
If you're trying to share a language with your kids — whether you're fluent, still learning, or somewhere in between — follow along. We'll figure it out together, realistically.
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