The Arabic learning we wanted for our own children.

We started Nanour because we couldn't find what we were looking for.

Our children were growing up between languages. Arabic was around them, in family WhatsApp threads, in songs, in the rhythm of a grandparent's voice on a video call. But around wasn't enough. We wanted them to read it. Write it. Understand what they were hearing. Build the foundations to keep going — to study Arabic, to use it, to stay connected to it as something they could carry forward.

So we looked. And what we found was a gap.

There were weekend programmes that do important work but build their teaching around religious learning. There were private tutors, lovely people improvising lesson by lesson with no curriculum and no continuity. There were apps, brisk and gamified, that taught a child to tap the right button without ever teaching them to read a sentence.

This was a problem we were living, not a market we were chasing. The love was there. The structure wasn't.

So we built the structure.

Nanour is what we wished existed: a proper programme of Modern Standard Arabic for children of families raising them between languages, with a structured curriculum, lessons that actually follow on from one another, and a tutor who stays with the child long enough to know how they think. Not as a marketplace. As a programme.

We're a small team. We talk to every family before we choose a tutor. We read the post-lesson summaries. We're building this carefully because our own kids are on it.

If that sounds like the kind of thing you've been looking for too, we'd love to meet you.