My Family - English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese by PetraLingua icon

App Detail » My Family - English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese by PetraLingua

Published by: Branko Pasanovic

+ Universal App - Designed for iPhone and iPad

Price: $2.99
Current Version: 2.0
Released: November 01, 2014

App Description

Learn the basics of English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese - with the same APP!

Petralingua® Course teaches the kids the basics of English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese through common everyday topics: My Family.

Other available topics: This Is Me; My House; Activities; Fruits and Vegetables; Colors; Clothing; Breakfast; Body Parts; Vehicles; Numbers; Days of the Week

KEY FEATURES:

- 6 LANGUAGES: English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese

- 2 language learning videos:
• introductory video sequence - In each lesson new vocabulary is introduced through an introductory video sequence. Lovable creatures and animated films will be interesting for learners of all ages.
• revision video - Each introductory video is followed by a revision version. After the beep, the children repeat the words and sentences spoken by a native speaker in the video. This way, they practice language structures and develop their speaking skills.

- talking picture dictionary - The audio picture dictionary in each lesson can be used to help us remember the words that were introduced in the videos, repeat the words after the speaker, but also to practice writing.

- 3 vocabulary learning games:
• Game 1: Listening Comprehension
• Game 2: Listening and Reading Comprehension
• Game 3: Listening Comprehension and Writing

Each lesson ends with a set of various interactive games designed to practice the words that have been introduced in the lesson and expand the vocabulary.
The games are never the same because every time you refresh the page, you get a new set of words to practice.

- Instructions in the app are available in 14 languages: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic.

Why use multimedia in foreign language learning and teaching?

The multimedia approach to teaching and learning foreign languages uses different media to help children learn the new language in an efficient way. The media we used:

- text
- audio
- video
- pictures
- interactive exercises