Pick a picture book with a familiar scene. Look at the picture together and ask your child what they see in your home dialect. Read one sentence in Standard Arabic and connect one unfamiliar word to the word they already use, such as sayyara and arabeyya.
How to check progress
Close the book and invite your child to retell one detail in their own words. Next time, see if they recognise the new word in a different picture. Keep the story going if they answer in their dialect.


