If you want to learn Arabic for kids at home, this hub is a gentle place to begin. It brings together eight free games in Arabic and English: the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet, numbers from واحد (one) to مئة (one hundred), and picture words for animals, fruits, vegetables, colours and body parts. Every word is read aloud in clear Modern Standard Arabic audio, so a young child can listen, tap and play long before they can read.
Which Arabic do these games use?
Arabic has many spoken dialects, such as Egyptian, Gulf, Levantine and Moroccan, but one shared standard: Modern Standard Arabic, called الفصحى (al-fuṣḥā). It is the Arabic of books, news, school lessons and children's cartoons across all Arab countries, and it is what schools in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere teach from kindergarten. These pages use fuṣḥā, so the words your child learns here will match their school books wherever you live. At home you may use a dialect word, for example Gulf families often say سيارة and Egyptians عربية for car. Children handle both very well.
Written words on the cards carry full vowel marks, الحركات (ḥarakāt), as early readers' books do. These small marks above and below letters show the short vowels, which ordinary adult Arabic leaves out.
Arabic games on this site
- Arabic alphabet for kids: 28 letters from أ for أَرْنَب (rabbit) to ي for يَد (hand).
- Numbers in Arabic 1 to 100: a tap-to-hear chart with a "Count with me" button.
- Animals name in Arabic: farm, wild and sea animals, from جَمَل (camel) to حُوت (whale).
- Fruits name in Arabic and vegetables name in Arabic: 30 each.
- Colours in Arabic: 12 colours, from أَحْمَر (red) to سَمَاوِيّ (sky blue).
- Body parts in Arabic: 30 words from رَأْس (head) to قَدَم (foot).
Each game has Listen, Find it and Memory modes. Golu, our glass-marble mascot, asks for pictures in Arabic, and a missed tap only gets a gentle hint, never "wrong". Every round ends with a marble in the Goli Jar. The games use spoken audio only, with no background music, which suits families who prefer voice-only content.
How Arabic is taught to young children
In Arab kindergartens (KG1 at 4-5 and KG2 at 5-6), children first learn letter names and sounds through songs and pictures, usually in the order أ ب ت ث, known as "alif, ba, ta". They learn to hear the first sound of a word, then to read letters with short vowels: بَ بِ بُ (ba, bi, bu). By the end of KG2, many children read and write simple joined words. Before four, the focus is listening, speaking and songs, not writing.
| Age | Realistic Arabic goals |
|---|---|
| 2-3 | Understands everyday words and greetings like مرحبا and شكرا; counts along to 3. |
| 3-4 | Names common animals, fruits and colours; counts objects to 10; sings letter songs. |
| 4-5 | Knows many letter names and sounds; hears the first letter of a word; counts to 20. |
| 5-6 | Reads letters with fatḥa, kasra and ḍamma; begins joining letters; counts to 100 with help. |
Ten minutes of Arabic a day
- Greet in Arabic. صباح الخير (good morning) and تصبح على خير (good night) turn routines into lessons.
- One small set a week. Five fruits, five animals or five letters is enough.
- Play, then move away from the screen. After a round of Find it, point to real things: a date, a cup, a cat.
- Praise the effort. أحسنت (well done) for a boy and أحسنتِ for a girl.
- Story time. Read a short picture book in Arabic, even if you only name the pictures.
Arabic for bilingual and diaspora families
Many families use these games to keep Arabic strong while their children grow up speaking English, Hindi, Urdu or another language at school, whether in Dubai, London, Toronto, Kerala or Chicago. Some Muslim families also want their children to recognise Arabic letters early so that reading the Qur'an later feels familiar; the letters and vowel marks on this site are the same ones they will meet. Families from Arab Christian and other backgrounds use the same letters for school Arabic. Whatever your reason, keep Arabic warm and everyday. Speak it at meals and bedtime, and let your child hear grandparents on video calls.
If you do not speak Arabic yourself, learn with your child and let the audio be the model. Mixing languages in one sentence is normal for bilingual children. Keep screen sessions short and shared: under-twos learn far more from a grown-up and real objects than from any screen.
تعليم اللغة العربية للأطفال
هذه ألعاب مجانية تساعد الأطفال من عمر سنتين إلى ست سنوات على تعلّم اللغة العربية باللعب. كل كلمة مسموعة بالعربية الفصحى وبالإنجليزية، مع صورة كبيرة وصوت واضح. لا يحتاج الموقع إلى تسجيل، ولا توجد فيه إعلانات، ويعمل على الهاتف والجهاز اللوحي والحاسوب.
ابدؤوا بالحروف الهجائية العربية للأطفال، ثم الأرقام من ١ إلى ١٠٠، ثم أسماء الحيوانات والفواكه والألوان. العبوا معًا بضع دقائق كل يوم، ثم ابحثوا عن الأشياء نفسها في البيت: تمرة في المطبخ، قطة في الشارع، اللون الأزرق في السماء. المهم هو الحديث والتشجيع والفرح بكل محاولة.
How to use this page at home
Say it, then find it
Play for a few minutes, then look for the same thing away from the screen: arabic words on the shelf, in the kitchen, on the way to school. A child learns a word properly when they meet it twice, once on the screen and once in their hand.
Ten minutes is enough
Short and happy beats long and tired. Stop while your child still wants more, and come back tomorrow: the same page on five short days teaches far more than one long sitting. Nothing here is scored, so there is no reason to push.
Use both languages
Tap the language button at the top to hear the words in your home language first and the second language after. Hearing the same picture named in two languages is one of the few things research agrees builds attention as well as vocabulary.
