Unlimited Language Jam

Unlimited Language Jam is one app for a child learning a language: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, English, Russian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese or Korean. Pick one and play; switch whenever you like, and each one remembers how far the child has come, which voice it speaks in, and its own settings. The Spanish is Latin American and the Portuguese is Brazilian, each with a voice to match. NOTHING HAS TO BE READ Every sentence is said aloud, and a picture shows what it says — the color, the size, how many, and where. A child who cannot read a word of either language can play from the first tap. Every topic on the map is a picture a child can recognise without reading. WHOLE SENTENCES, NOT A WORD LIST Other apps hand a child a list of words. This one makes sentences, and every one is correct: el gato es negro, la flor es roja, les fleurs sont rouges. Every ending follows the word it belongs to, in every language the app teaches. The sentences are made fresh, so they do not run out. WAYS TO PLAY Listen, then tap. Hear a sentence and tap the picture it describes. What did you hear? Sentences that differ in one thing, each with its own picture. Put the words in order. Build the sentence from word tiles, with the picture as the clue. Stories. Read aloud a word at a time, with the word being said lit up, so a child can follow the line with their eye. In Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and English there are rhymes too, and every one of them really rhymes. The Words room. Every picture in a topic with its word, said aloud and written, for a child who wants to look around. LEARN THE LETTERS Hangul, kana, Chinese characters, Cyrillic, Devanagari and Arabic: each letter in the order a school teaches it, heard first and then traced, with the strokes going in the right order and the right direction. From then on the sentences are written only with letters the child already knows. COMING BACK TO WHAT WAS HARD A word that went wrong comes back soon, and the next sentence is built around it; a word that went right comes back later. A round ends by itself with a quiet word of praise in the language being learned. There is no score, no streak and no timer. MADE FOR SMALL HANDS Everything a child touches is big. VoiceOver, larger text and Reduce Motion work throughout, and Arabic lays the screens out right to left. FOR GROWN-UPS Behind a sum a small child cannot do, asked fresh every time and read aloud as well as shown: which voice speaks, how the child is spoken to where the language says a different word to a boy and to a girl, the der/die/das color cue, how much of each topic has been met, and starting over. Those screens read in English, Español, Português, العربية, हिन्दी, 简体中文 or 한국어 — whichever the grown-up reads. There is nothing else back there: no link out, nothing to buy, nothing to send. ON YOUR DEVICE One purchase covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. No account, no subscription, no in-app purchases, no advertising, no notifications and no analytics. Nothing leaves the device, and it works with no signal. It never listens. There is no speaking practice and no microphone.