Vanko: Kids Learn Vietnamese

Vanko helps children aged 4 to 8 learn to read Vietnamese, a little every day. It follows the order of the lessons in the grade 1 reading book used in Vietnamese schools, and spells each syllable aloud the way school does: the first sound, the rime, then the tone. A DAY'S SESSION • Listen and find: hear a sound or a rime, then tap the card that matches. • Build: put the first sound, the rime and the tone mark together, and hear the syllable spelled out slowly. • Read: words, then short stories made only of the letters learned so far, so a child can read every word alone. Tap a word to hear it spelled. • Later in the year: longer passages, each with a few questions about what was read. • Review comes back by itself: the sounds and rimes a child mixes up return in the next sessions. • At the end, a sticker for the book. No score. WITH THE CLASS, OR FROM ABROAD • Your child is in grade 1: tell the app which lesson the class has reached, and each day's session follows it, with review of the lessons before. • Your family lives abroad: the app leads from the very first letter, at your child's pace. The parent area speaks your language (nine languages), and your child learns in Vietnamese. MORE TO DO • The workshop: put any sounds, rimes and tones learned so far together. A real word goes into your child's own dictionary. • Picture scenes built from words your child can read. • A story in chapters that goes on with every lesson. • Games: six games on the letters your child has learned, among them Caterpillar and Bee. • Play together: a three-minute game each day for you and your child, away from the screen. • Read together: two children take turns on one phone, each keeping their own progress. • Stories for Tết and the Mid-Autumn festival, in season. FOR PARENTS Behind a parental gate: • A minute of reading aloud: your child reads, you tap the syllables read wrong. The app counts the syllables read right in that minute, and the rimes your child misread come back in the next day's session. • A weekly report, a daily play-time limit, a weekly goal, slow mode and high contrast. • A Northern or Southern voice for each child, and the app's language. • Hear yourself, off until you turn it on: your child holds a button to record a word or a sentence, then hears it back after the model voice. The recording is never saved or sent. Children never see a price or a buy button. FREE, EVERY DAY The whole reading path, one full session a day, every hint, the slow spelling and both voices are free for good. A child who never has the Family plan still reaches every lesson. Brothers and sisters each get their own profile at no cost. VANKO FAMILY PLAN (OPTIONAL) For families who want more: more practice after the day's session, within the time you set, a shelf of 151 extra stories across the lessons, and your child's reading history week by week. Choose a monthly or a yearly subscription (the yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers), or a one-time purchase that keeps the plan for good. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period, in your account settings. PRIVACY No account, no ads, and no third-party analytics or advertising code. Progress stays on the device. Anonymous statistics are sent only if a parent says yes. The lessons work without a connection. The voice is synthetic speech, made in advance and checked by machine. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://legal.lookbookai.app/vanko/privacy.html