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 doing important work, often built around religious learning. There were private tutors — many of them lovely — though without a shared curriculum, lessons didn't always build on each other. And there were apps, brisk and fun for daily practice, though stronger at tapping the right button than at reading a full sentence. Each does something well; the structured whole was the hard part to find.
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 real 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.
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