Best way for kids to learn Arabic or French?

[Kalim8]

Hi everyone, one dc has expressed an interest in learning Arabic and another has expressed an interest in learning French (they're 8 & 9).

If you've used resources for kids around that age to learn either of those languages, which would you recommend please? Specific you tube channels / one third stories?

Thanks

Hopeful bump

Duolingo.

Classes are the best bet in real life, or possibly online. Apps like duolingo etc.can be useful for practice and a bit of conversation but without some real life practice it's quite hard. For Arabic, with the different alphabet, you can easily source on Amazon handwriting books for learning to write the letters.

For French try Tv5 Monde, they do tv programmes and news reports at different levels of French from beginner upwards, alongside free lessons. langue-francaise.tv5monde.com

The best thing is full immersion. They are a bit young still but if they were serious there are a number of options in the UK and overseas for summer camps or intensive language courses aimed at teaching children. At age 15-17 it's also quite common for children from other countries to study abroad for 6 months or a year in the UK or whatever to fully learn the language.

My daughter does Arabic with an online tutor. She has Skype lessons 3 x a week and the tutor is from Egypt (I think) so native speaking. It's not at all expensive and the tutor is great and not super strict (sometimes I find tutors to be very rigid, not the case here)