How I’m using LEGO to teach Arabic | Ghada Wali

After a visit to a European library in search of Arabic and Middle Eastern texts turned up only titles about fear, terrorism and destruction, Ghada Wali resolved to represent her culture in a fun, accessible way. The result: a colorful, engaging project that uses LEGO to teach Arabic script, harnessing the power of graphic design to create connection and positive change. "Effective communication and education is the road to more tolerant communities," Wali says.

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51 Comments on How I’m using LEGO to teach Arabic | Ghada Wali

  1. It ws no revolution. It ws a CIA sponsored coup to prop up their own puppet Monarch Fattah el-Sisi. Anybody hving knowledge abt international affairs will tell u.

    • Arabic is not Indo-European, after all… all the plurals, the blurred present+future, the etiquette… hard to understand

    • well from my prospective its actully really really hard to master like its impossible but you can learn i ain’t saying its the easiest but its the most beautiful language on earth,trust me.

    • It hard just in the beginning cause like he said it not hendo-European language it hendo-African but once you get the basics you will find it easy

  2. Arabic is such a beautiful language and the Arabic cultures are misunderstood but I have faith that there fair people who are ready to learn more about who we truly are and forget the stereotypes

    • Mr.Coder Code, your view depends on where in the middle east you’re from, some middle easterns (like you) have a very negative view of it. It’s cool, good that’s not the opinion of the majority of ME’s.

    • I would looooove to learn this language! My toddler watches you tube kids videos. I find shes more inclined to watch the Arabic ones than the English ones. I have been looking for a fun easy way we could learn together!

    • rop por I’m sure it but,

      I myself am NOT
      Not Interested in learning Arabic.
      Yet it’s “recommended” to me,
      Why?

      I fucking Despise Islamists.

  3. وقاحة ما بعدها وقاحة تتكلمون عن مرسي وتخرسون عن العسكر البلخة

  4. So wait. You say you are using Lego, and how letters connect together is important. But then you don’t build anything with them, you just place them side by side and took pictures, and give them a blight background color. Why even use Lego at all? Any inanimate object would do the exact same thing. You just depicted the letters in a terribly low resolution. There are people who entire jobs are depicting things using Lego. You should have called one of them for collaboration.

  5. as an Arabic speaker I am always amazed by the fact that American movies write Arabic script (in street sings and and the like) they write it backward and separated it is unreadable for anyone speaking Arabic, I mean you spend millions of dollars on a movie and you can’t figure out how a modern language is written , I laughed out loud when watching “Arrival” a movie about deciphering an alien language and in the movie they write Arabic backward and separated. I thought good luck deciphering alien languages.

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