Language Apps for Kids
Learning a new language isn’t always easy, but with these apps we hope it is slightly less intimidating. To help teach your kids a foreign language, explore the best language apps on your favorite device.
Bilingua
App Info Price: Overview Bilingua is designed help people learn a language by conversing with others. Users are matched with conversation partners based on personal interests and the languages they want to learn. Through games and fun conversations, they begin to build their language skills. Features include: Take a personality quiz Play fun language games …
Miao Mi- Learn Mandarin Chinese for Kids and Junior
Early childhood is an ideal time to learn new languages, and Mandarin Chinese is a highly-sought-after skill. This app will help you and your child decide if learning the language is fun and give children an advantage if they are entering or currently enrolled in an immersion Mandarin Chinese educational program because of the extra practice it affords.
Pili Pop Francais
Kids can learn French through fun games and an immersive language approach with Pili Pop Francais.
Juana la Iguana goes to the Beach
Juana la Iguana Goes to the Beach is a fun app that plunges preschoolers into the Spanish language. The beach theme is fun and attractive to young children, and the immersive style of instruction is a proven method of teaching language to young children.
SLWG – Study! a Language Word Game
A fun block-style word game helps kids learn a foreign language in SLWG – Study! a Language Word Game.
RingoWord-Word Search Game
RingoWord is a literal “twist” on traditional word search puzzles, with the words being presented in a circular format. The rules are simple and the play is challenging.
Tales of Aarchie
Tales of Aarchie tells a humorous story about an armadillo while helping kids learn some of the intricacies of the English language.
eTABU Word Search
eTABU Word Search is a fun way to build reading, word recognition, vocabulary and mental flexibility skills. You can even use it to sharpen your languages skills. The app is entertaining and highly-engaging.
Learn Chinese with Lingokids
Learn Chinese with Lingokids uses an immersive language experience, animated characters, and interactive activities to help kids learn to speak Chinese.
Lingokids-English Class for Kids & Toddlers
Lingokids is a sampler app that allows parents and children to try out several lessons to teach English vocabulary to young children using engaging animated activities related to groups of eight vocabulary words.
Bitsboard PRO
A unique flashcard and games platform makes Bitsboard PRO the ideal app for learning just about anything.
Stories by Gus on the Go
Learn Spanish with Stories by Gus on the Go is a fun way to pick up new Spanish vocabulary related to familiar stories using sound instructional strategies, great interactive activities, and an ebook.
Listening Power Preschool
Listening Power Preschool is an outstanding receptive language development app capable of accommodating up to 75 users, creating groups, and providing an array of flexible practice activities that will keep young children learning for years.
Fun With Colors
Fun With Colors is an app that uses underwater themed games to teach children a variety of vocabulary words in both English & Mandarin. Educational, fun, and easy to use for children of all ages!
RIDE, Learn language, vocabulary puzzle.
Build children’s vocabulary in 8 different languages as they match the animals up with their vehicles to create silly pictures in RIDE, Learn language, vocabulary puzzle.
Kids Sound Lab Pro
Kids Sound Lab Pro is a great app for providing practice with English consonant sounds. It provides a lot of visual and auditory cues to help students master the material.
A.C.D.: The French Files
Learn French as you try to find the thief who stole famous paintings in this unique French learning app.
LoopSkool Chinese
Learn Chinese phrase by phrase in just 10 minutes a day.
Verbs for Kids – Part 1
Verbs for Kids-Part 1 would be a useful tool to help students of English and perhaps special needs students hear examples of acceptable English grammar and pronunciation, as well as see clear animated illustrations of 180 verbs and sentences. It does have some flaws, however, and parents and teachers would be wise to check the app thoroughly before investing.
The Pronoun Party
The Pronoun Party is a bare-bones, repetitive source of practice sentences with pronouns and gender words that will help young children practice understanding these words in spoken sentences and responding to them appropriately.
Juana la Iguana en la Granja
Juana la Iguana en la Granja is a great app to introduce a preschool child to conversational Spanish while reviewing basic readiness skills such as matching, counting, colors and the Spanish alphabet.
2015 Edition: Best Apps for Back to School – High School
In high school, students are getting down to business, and they need apps that will support their learning. Bells and whistles of entertaining educational games often (but not always!) give way to practicality as kids focus on the job at hand. Our selection of recommended apps will help students review important concepts in core subjects, …
Duolingo-Learn Languages for Free
Duolingo offers a positive and comprehensive language learning experience that most middle school, high school, and adult students will find engaging and fun. It features short, effective lessons and practice, motivational rewards, and a built-in goal-setting feature.
Herbie the Hedgehog
Herbie the Hedgehog is a cute story with read-to-me, read-aloud and auto-play options to make it suitable for young children in a wide variety of situations. The easy choice of languages makes it a great way to introduce or expose youngsters to other ways of speaking.
Star Gurus
Star Gurus is a great app for young children that will help them practice important counting skills which are foundational to learning math in early elementary school. The dot-to-dot game is rewarding in its own right, and the teaching is so gentle and unobtrusive that kids will not even know they are practicing important skills.
Poppy Cat Goes to the Market
Go shopping, build sandwiches, and interact with Poppy Cat and her friends all while learning Spanish in a fun language-learning app.
The Story of Dracolino
Young children will enjoy helping Dracolino learn about feelings and how to respond to them appropriately.
Chinese Letter Academy
Chinese Letter Academy is a great way to introduce a young child to the process of writing Chinese characters.
Monki Chinese Class
Monki Chinese Class offers a unique opportunity to learn a select few Chinese characters in a multi-sensory environment.
The Boy Who Cried Wolf VL2 Storybook
The Boy Who Cried Wolf VL2 Storybook offers the well-known children’s tale in text and sign language formats with several options for combining sign with text.
Pepe and Pepita
Pepe & Pepita is another great educational app from Mrs. Judd’s Games that will help children learn a variety of vocabulary words while providing practice identifying the correct gender for each noun. A great app for a great price!
WordGirl Superhero Training
Help WordGirl save the day by building your super hero skills through a variety of word, memory, and logic challenges in this fun app.
Learn with Miaomiao: Chinese
Learn with Miaomiao: Chinese is a child friendly app for learning everyday words in Chinese.
Sound Touch
Sound Touch offers many educational opportunities for all ages, even adults.
Rosita y Conchita in 3D
A lovely digital storybook app that teaches children about the Day of the Dead with an easy to understand and heartwarming story.
Free App Friday – Oct 04, 2013
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Free App Friday – Sep 27, 2013
Welcome to another fabulous Free App Friday!
Appy Animals
Appy Animals is a unique app that teaches Arabic to English speaking children through cute animal illustrations and a simple interactive interface.
Dic-Dic
Dic-Dic is a nice introduction to basic words in several languages. It will help students learn to spell and read over a hundred different words in their native language, then can introduce them to several other languages.
Lately Lily: Paris for a Day
Pack your suitcase, hop on a plane and learn some French, Lately Lily: Paris for a Day is an outstanding way to do all of those things and more and the app is much more reasonably priced than a plane ticket.