Second Language

Stimulating communication, language development, and multilingualism in children

An easy to use educational app to stimulate and inspire communication, language development, and multilingualism in children. The app is designed for use in nurseries, kindergartens, schools and homes.

Second Language is the international version of the Norwegian success "Språkkista" (Language chest), developed by a team of nursery education specialists and with support from UDIR (The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training). All translations and recorded sounds are made by professional interpreters.

The built-in image library includes 300 carefully selected everyday words for children in 25 different languages, including many minority languages:

English

American English

Amharic

Arabic

Burmese

Chinese

Farsi

Kurdish (Soranî)

Kurmanji

Lithuanian

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Nynorsk

Oromo

Pashto

Persian (Dari)

Polish

Russian

Somali

Spanish

Swedish

Tagalog

Tamil

Thai

Tigrinya

Turkish

Urdu

Vietnamese

The images are gathered into ten albums based on everyday themes, with thirty two image cards in each album. When a child taps an image the associated word is read out in the selected language. The child can easily switch between their first and second language by tapping a button.

You can easily add your own images and albums by using the built-in camera and microphone. This enables you to build an image library specifically adapted to certain users or to educational goals. You can create multiple users and adapt each to the individual's learning needs.

*Amharic, Burmese and Tigrinja do not have native keyboard support. These languages are audio only unless you install the relevant font.