Those who arrived in Canada post WWII as refugees were thrown in at the deep end, one learned to swim or one drowned.

For my part , as a child, I learned English in the movie theatres ...still love Danny Kaye movies, Laurel and Hardy , Shane, The Man from Laramie , the Quiet Man and a host of old UK movies .

As someone stated on this thread, switch the TV to Canadian English / French channels....old Arabic movies would only feed nostalgia.