English learning apps
Kangi Club is a whole animated world in English, developed by Helen Doron School specialists in the field of English language teaching. Parents are guaranteed to be able to choose an activity to their child’s liking, because there are a huge number of games – more than 100, as well as songs and animated films with funny characters.
Initially, this project was developed as a supplement to the main courses of the school, but, as our experience shows, it is also used separately from the courses. This application for learning English allows children to have fun while learning the language. The portal has both open games available to everyone, and those intended only for our students. Each student of our school automatically receives full access to all the content for their course.
The portal can be opened in a desktop browser or downloaded as an appApp Store or Google Play
In games, children love to complete levels and rejoice in their success. This motivates them to continue playing and achieve ever higher results. Such a system of encouragement and involvement is implemented in the mobile application for learning English Helen Doron Read.
This program is specially designed to teach reading from scratch, as well as to develop existing reading and listening skills. It is suitable for students from 4 to 9 years old. Spoken language is very important, but it is also necessary to be able to read and write. Therefore, regular classes, in which the child not only hears but also sees written words, allow you to remember the correct spelling, as well as develop the skill of fluent reading with full understanding of what is read.
In addition, the application interface is very conveniently designed and structured by tasks: from the easiest level to advanced. For example, for those who have just started learning to read, there is a task where, after reading a phrase, you can press the “Play” button and hear its correct pronunciation in full or by letters. The application contains several tasks available in the free version. Access to all the materials of the application is paid.
Download from App Store or Google Play
Helen Doron’s team has developed 8 additional mobile applications for children and teenagers. Their advantage is that you can choose the pace of completing tasks, return to the material covered and repeat it again.
As always, the voice acting is done by native speakers, which develops the ability to freely understand English speech. Some of the applications are a supplement to the textbooks used in classes at Helen Doron schools. Some of the Helen Doron textbooks are made using augmented reality technology. With the help of mobile applications, you can bring pictures to life and see how the course characters move and talk. An example of augmented reality can be viewed at the link.
The applications can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play
An English learning app for kids aged 5 to 9.
Reading and writing become more fun with friends from Alphaboat! The player needs to communicate with friends by sending them messages in the chat. You need to react quickly: answer all participants, send the correct answer and do not leave any without attention. Children easily learn English by listening and reading, writing and learning words and phonetics in an exciting chat simulator developed by linguistic experts.
The application develops communication skills, gradually introducing into the vocabulary colloquial phrases and phraseological units often used by native speakers. The initial stages are provided for free, and if you like the implementation, you can purchase the rest of the content.
Fairy tales are something that all children adore! They develop imagination and teach good deeds, give life lessons, lay down the concepts of friendship, love, education, etc. This free English learning app contains many folk tales that are adapted for comfortable perception.
Of course, the story is accompanied by visual illustrations to focus attention, and the entire text is read with classic British pronunciation by a fictional character – Granny Rosetta. Children can listen to Granny Rosetta, follow the reading along with the illuminated text and enjoy the beautiful illustrations of the classics that every child should know.
The first book is presented in a free version, the other three books are in paid access. The application presents classic fairy tales:
- Henny Penny ( free );
- Three Billy Goats Gruff;
- The Elves and the Shoemaker;
- The Magic Porridge Pot.
This completely free English learning app is designed in the form of musical compositions, sketches and cartoons. It is very useful for children to learn short poems and songs to develop memory. The channel has a huge music collection in karaoke format, as well as general educational materials. Educational videos are suitable for children from 0 to 6 years old.
- Songs make learning English easy and fun;
- The karaoke format helps to practice listening comprehension, expand vocabulary and improve pronunciation, and motivates the child to sing English songs.
Another unique free English learning app is specially designed for teenagers. Helen Doron School’s Internet radio station operates 24/7 so that students from all over the world have access to their favorite programs. The broadcast is aimed at teenagers, and therefore there is music, competitions, educational programs, stories and lots of exciting content.
To listen, you need to download and install the application from Google Play or App Store or use the computer version of the program.
This site can hardly be called just an application for learning English. It is a full-fledged radio portal for teenagers, where:
- news, useful articles relevant to teenagers, book recommendations, advice on choosing sports sections and a lot of other useful information are published.
- competitions and quizzes are held;
- There is an opportunity to make new acquaintances through correspondence with teenagers all over the world.
In addition, there is a very funny way to evaluate the material not in the form of a traditional like, but in the form of a smiley of your mood!
Now learning English outside the classroom can happen anytime, anywhere! Your child will be able to watch video episodes, video songs, and course audio right here in the Helen Doron Stream app. Helen Doron’s English language materials are fun and designed to be an important tool for developing language learning skills. The Stream app is designed to be listened to twice a day as background audio – the sounds and rhythm of the language are absorbed naturally while playing, eating, or during everyday activities. This ensures constant exposure to the English language, which is key to the Helen Doron English methodology.
Each student at Helen Doron English has constant access to this mobile application in accordance with the course program.
The application can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play
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On our channel you will find many excellent quality videos about our projects. These materials can be combined with applications for learning English. We also regularly add new relevant videos so that you can learn about school news in Russia without leaving your home, as well as have an exciting and fun time.
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Using English Language Learning Apps at Helen Doron School
Helen Doron School was one of the first to use apps for learning English for children in its practice. At the moment, listening to audio recordings, watching videos and completing small, exciting tasks in English have become an integral part of each course.
Applications for learning English completely exclude the use of the Russian language. The advantages are that the child gets used to hearing English speech, understanding and remembering words without drawing parallels with Russian concepts, namely associatively. Thus, playing in the application, watching cartoons or singing English songs, the child actively lets the language into his life. Several things happen at once:
- Immersion in an English-speaking environment, which facilitates adaptation to foreign speech.
- Gradually, English becomes as understandable and accessible as Russian. It’s just a matter of regularity of classes.
- Words are remembered not as a translation, but as associations, which means they are unlikely to be forgotten. You can’t forget the word “cat” in Russian. But if you learn from the position of translation that “cat” is “cat”, then it is easy to forget the translation.
There are quite a lot of free apps for learning English. We have provided a list of apps for high-quality learning of English for children and teenagers, which we use in our practice and which have been tested on millions of our students. After all, it is important to choose an app that is interesting and exciting for the child. In this case, classes, or more correctly games and entertainment, will be much more useful.
The educational material in the apps is voiced exclusively by native speakers, which means that the child not only gets used to correct speech, but also begins to imitate correct pronunciation.