Your child speaks English at school all day. Here is how families in Houston, Toronto and New Jersey keep Arabic alive at home without turning it into a battle.
Bilingualism is not built in a classroom alone — it is built in the small, repeated moments of the day. Children who hear Arabic only once a week rarely become fluent, while children who hear it for twenty focused minutes a day almost always do.
Anchor Arabic to something your child already loves: the dinner table, the car ride, bedtime stories. Pair that home exposure with a structured online lesson where a native tutor corrects pronunciation and builds vocabulary systematically.
Finally, never correct harshly. Confidence is the single strongest predictor of whether a child keeps speaking a heritage language into their teenage years.