Two languages. Both growing.
No child should have to lose their home language to learn English.
Sharing a story is where language begins.
Reading with someone they love gives a young child security, and it is where a love of reading comes from. Our books read along on their own — but they work best when somebody is listening too.
The speaking comes first.
Before a child can meet a word on a page, they need to have heard it and said it. That is what daily Talk Time lessons are for: a few minutes a day, individualised, building the spoken vocabulary that everything else rests on. The books come next, built on the very same vocabulary sequence.
When you can’t read with them in the language of their school, the book can.
Not every caregiver can read aloud in English. Every one of our eBooks narrates itself, page by page, with the words highlighted as they are spoken — so a child still gets the read-aloud that vocabulary and background knowledge come from, and you can still be in the room for it.
And if you would rather read in your own language, we support that too.
In English-dominant communities, home languages tend to disappear within a generation or two, taking cultural, emotional and family connection with them — and academic progress along with them. Every book is a multilingual eBook — the languages sit behind a selector, so a family can switch whenever they like, and every child gets every language, not only their own. We do not put two languages side by side on the same page: the brain locks on to what it recognises and skips the challenge. One language at a time, chosen on purpose. Reading in your home language is not a compromise. We think it is a basic right.
Learning a new language, from English.
Plenty of English-speaking families want their child to grow up with a second language. Every title carries its languages behind the same selector — English, Spanish, French, Indonesian now, with Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean and Pashto under development — so a child can read in the language you are growing. The daily speaking lessons currently teach English only; French, Spanish, and Indonesian will follow soon, and other target languages after those.
Already bilingual? Then grow both.
A child who arrives with two languages does not have to trade one for the other. Language Levels are tracked per language, so a child can sit at a different level in each and move up both.
What is actually in a book.
Narration with word-by-word highlighting. Real curriculum content in Science, Mathematics, Social Studies and Literary titles. Built-in comprehension quizzes and scored retell activities. A Language Level you can change on any book, so the words match where your child is now, not where a grade label says they should be.
