BigMom: English Listening

Sixty short stories take children from no English at all to their first 590 words, by ear, with each line in their own language beneath the English.

BigMom helps children learn English by listening. Short stories, read by a warm, natural voice, play like song lyrics: the English line by line, with the translation in the child's own language beneath it. The English text stays hidden until they want to see it, so the ear does the work.

LISTEN • 60 short stories in six levels, from no English at all to a first 590 words • Stories start slowly, at 0.75×, and speed up when the child is ready • Step back a word or a sentence to hear it again

PLAY • Challenge mode: hear a sentence, then tap its words in order as they fall, avoiding the look-alikes • Stars and a score for every story

LEARN THE WORDS • Word cards with pictures for the new words of each story, each word spoken on its own • A memo keeps the words and sentences a child missed or played again, and brings them back for review on the right day: after 1, 2, 4, 7 and 14 days

IN THE CHILD'S OWN LANGUAGE Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Chinese (Traditional), Japanese and Arabic.

PRIVATE No sign-up, no ads, nothing collected. Progress stays on the device.

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