hany, thanks for the link about fine media.. looks good.. for Adam's world, no, it is designed for the english user, as I heared, but it has some episodes about the alphabet, etc. as a way to say that learning Arabic is important..

Anyhow, if you find success in using any of their products in teaching Arabic, please let us know....

About the arabic version of seasme street, an 38-years old friend was telling me that he learnt from it with his kids ;) so it must be good.

Hananabanana said:

"Fine Media Group has quite a few good resources for children. They have flashcards, and a book that I particularly like provides pictures and vocabulary in context."

Thanks Amr for the link. The sesame street (iftah ya semsem) I was talking about is Arabic production and is also within Islamic context. (I finally found it, btw!) :) But for learning Arabic, is Adam's world designed for this? Check the Fine Media Group that Hananabanana mentioned. They are the ones who produced the movie about the prohpet (pbuh)

i can't read all of the posts below, sorry if I am repeating any information.

hany, seasme street? there is a muslim-english version of it called Adam's World, it teaches ismalic values in an easy way, I heared good recommendation for it form lots of ppl soundvision.com

soundVisoin in general has good products, still not sure how many in Arabic.

Great stuff! Finally someone producing quality products for Muslim children. Thanks.

Have you used any of theirs? Which book did you mean?

Fine Media Group has quite a few good resources for children. They have flashcards, and a book that I particularly like provides pictures and vocabulary in context.

Some books, puzzles and software to teach kids Arabic.
www.astrolabe.com

hmm, catchy song. Interesting site, I guess isn't catered for kids. Its hard to find good way to teach kids. If u do find cool sites, do post them. Thanks!

Thanks SS. Yeah, I realize that the alphabet is in Egyptian. But as far as the alphabet goes, it's not too far from the Classic Arabic. Except for the Jeem, which I will try to make up for. I'm still not too comfortable with watani (my homeland), qawmeyya (kinship), etc. at the end of the song. Same values we/they try to instill in children in the Middle East these days, but they're not too bad in this small dose.

Regarding this website, it's actually hilarious if you look at the rest of the content. You'll find:

ana mabsoot (I'm happy)
beera sa23a (cold beer)
bent gameela (beautiful girl)
walad gameel (handsome boy)
kharag/kharaget (went out)
masaa2 el kheir (good evening)
a-yez shisha (!!!)

you see where that's going!

I also found this one, which is a nice idea that seems to have some learning value, but the implementation is a little rough. It's not professionally done and I don't think it's appealing for kids: www.arabic4fun.com

I actually don't mind paying for something if it's good enough. OR collaborating with someone on producing something useful. It's a really big challenge to raise kids who speak and write Arabic well in the west.

When I was a kid, I watched efta7 ya semsem (the Arabic "Sesame Street") and it was very informative and helpful. I still remember Hesham, one of the characters who had an impressive handwriting. I tried to look for it online, but I can't find it... yet. However, it still targets Arabic speaking children. I think children need (and deserve) high quality educational material if we are serious about it.

loooooooool, oh my god, that egyptian song!!! long tiiiiime, lol!!

but gotta warn u, that way of sayign the alphabet is the egyptian way, not standard arabic way!

dont expect to find what u r looking for. that would mean 'muslims who are paid to do such a thing', and that's far from us!!! no muslim arab would have such support. i dont know. just...hard to find what u want i guess.