February 21, 2014
Learning Languages with Langmobile #Review and #Giveaway
Learning a second language is a high priority to me for my children. It is a fantastic skill for them to carry forward into their school and later on their professional careers. For me knowing that language acquisition is easiest during the ages of zero to five, puts a little bit of pressure to get started early!. This is often called the “critical period”. Yet I still want them to have fun and enjoy learning a second language – not the second language classes I had where we had to memorize conjugating verbs but never learned to understand and speak Italian!
Langmobile is based out of Saint-Lambert, Quebec. They offer high quality workshops in music, yoga, English, Italian, French and Spanish, along with pre-school activities and camps. Langmobile has developed a program that helps parents bond and interact with their children while teaching a second language. Langmobile actively includes parents in the learning process to help learn and teach them at the same time. They have taken the research that they have put into their programs and developed an incredible app that assists parents in teaching children English, Spanish and French.
The Langmobile app incorporates new teaching methods that place the interaction between parent and child at the core of the learning process. The Langmobile app features fifty lessons in English, Spanish and French. Each lesson contains a video, song and printable materials (teaching sheets, colouring sheets and more!). The apps use adults to bring languages to life. The apps feature original music composed by Langmobile’s team of experts.
yoga , music workshops, English classes, Italian classes, French classes, Spanish classes, Saturday classes, after school activities, preschool activities, day camps and specialized services to CPE and private Daycares – See more at: http://www.langmobile.com/quality-workshops/#sthash.hbdLhMKb.dpuf
yoga , music workshops, English classes, Italian classes, French classes, Spanish classes, Saturday classes, after school activities, preschool activities, day camps and specialized services to CPE and private Daycares – See more at: http://www.langmobile.com/quality-workshops/#sthash.hbdLhMKb.dpuf
When I first download an app I like to spend a couple of hours looking through the app myself to allow myself to become familiar with the teaching aspect, how it works and so on. As soon as I opened the app up and let the first video play my children came running (both my two and nine year old!) at the energetic music and singing! They were engrossed in the app!
My favourite features of the app were:
- easy and quick download
- music was energetic and great at catching my children’s attention
- repetitive; allowing the words to be easily learned
- informative parent guide with instructions on how to use each word/video, including also colouring books, craft activities, activities on the go, lyrics, words to practice and cards to print out
- the parent guide allows you to minimize the amount of time spent directly on the app itself for parents that are worried about too much screen time
- loved that I was able to interact and be part of the learning process (versus just reading it aloud and hoping they absorb what you are reading to them)
- incredibly fun way to learn a new language (all of us were dancing and singing along!)
- even though it is designed for teaching children 0-5 years of age, my nine year old loved it as well!
- easy to navigate between pages on the app
- app is designed to be able to download onto Apple devices and Android
Langmobile is offering four individuals a chance to win their own copy of the app! US and CAN residents can enter via the Rafflecopter below.
Good luck!
Disclosure: I received a copy of this app in order to facilitate this review. All opinions expressed are my own.
This sounds cute. My kids have picked up a few words/phrases in other languages, but right now – English is enough for them 🙂
I'll have to come back and enter when I'm not mobile..abounds lien a great app. My own toddler is currently learning French and Italian.
I had not heard of this program. I definitely think a second language is important to every child and should be encouraged.
This is fantastic! I think it's a great skill to know a second language, especially for kids!
we are working on Spanish mostly…we have a lot of Spanish speaking people in our area, and learning to communicate with them with their language is jsut as important as them learning to communicate with us!
I think its really important to learn a second language. I would love to teach Sophie spanish or latin.
cute i bet kids love this and learn quickly from it my son has never shown a desire to learn a new language but who knows will show him this and see
This app sounds great to learn a new language. I have always wanted to learn French. And it is nice to know that it is compatible with iphone and android.
This app is new to me. I think it is very important for children to learn a second language!
It is very important to use. I want her to learn Spanish. <br /><br />Michelle F.
That is great because one day it will look great on their resume. My kids only know a phrase here or there.
This is fantastic and an important learning tool for helping kids be multilingual
Yes. It is definitely important for children to learn languages. My son speaks English and Spanish at home and we take French classes together.
My kids are bilingual (English and Spanish). We've started reading and talking to them in French. Language is such a great gift. <br /><br />Besos, Sarah<br />Blogger at Journeys of The Zoo
I think that the language programs sound really neat. The coloring sheet looks like it is presented in a fun and educational way too! I don't like yoga, but like I said that language part looks good! We actually are interested in learning Spanish.
I would love to teach my daughter french, unfortunatly I cant speak a word of it. This would be awesome to have.
Wow! ¡Vaya! Sensationnel! I would love to win this prize ~ what a great sounding app for the whole family to use together!
I would love to teach my children French, Spanish and Italian as second languages ~ I speak French fluently and have been learning Spanish and Italian slowly . . . what great skills to teach children in their early years!
What a great app!! I've been looking for a way to incorporate French into my DD2 life as my older two attend French immersion school!! This is great!
This is awesome i would love to teach them French !!! 🙂 Rafflecopter name Treen Goodwin thanks for the chance to win !! 🙂
i would love all my kids to larn spanish and latin
We're trying to teach them Spanish.
I think this app is great! I want my children to be able to speak more than one language, and this app would be so useful to help them accomplish this.
I would love my daughter to learn how to speak french.
My son is already getting A's in French<br />His sister on the other hand is getting D's<br />we are a french family for generations so i would like to keep that going<br />thaks for the chance to teach them 🙂
That would be great to help reinforce French, which my kids are already learning.
I think it expands their mind. We would like to teach them Macadonian.
There are many languages I would love for our four 3 year-old children to learn. Living in California, Spanish is the most practical language.
I am teaching my son ASL, and some Spanish and French .
It is so important that even though myself or my husband do not speak another language we enrolled my son in a french immersion school.
I think French is the most practical for us 🙂