Why it's hard for Arabic-speaking parents to read to their kids, and a New York mom's quest for a solution.
a bestseller in Egypt, the bar is pretty low: It sold only around 1,000 copies per year.
"Many parents spend money on cake and juice in a shopping mall, but they won't buy a book for a child. That upsets me, and I feel I am too small to tackle this. I am just one person in the end," she said in frustration."I am talking here about the upper-middle-class who imitate the West in everything. They eat blueberries, quinoa… Why don't they imitate the West in reading? Why?" As the books her growing children were reading got longer, Shendy couldn't keep up.
Without understanding the language books are written in, everything else is harder for children to learn, and that may have a lasting impact. ," 59% of children across the Arabic-speaking world, rich and poor, are unable to read and understand an age-appropriate text by the age of 10. In Egypt, data show an alarming 69% of children don't fully understand what they're reading.
Exposing children to more SpA, and more formally, could make it harder for them to learn MSA later, Taha said.
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