Languages

Language learning apps for kids

Apps, games, songs and stories for learning a new language or keeping up a home language.

Ages 2–5

TRT Çocuk: A Turkish-language children’s site with games, program episodes, short videos and a live TV section.
Studycat: Young kids tap, match and sing their way through first words in Spanish, French, German, Chinese or English.
Dinolingo: Kids watch animated lessons, sing songs and play games in any of 50 languages.
Little Pim: Little ones watch five-minute episodes in which a cartoon panda and native speakers introduce words in a new language.
Salsa: Kids watch puppets act out familiar fairy tales entirely in Spanish and pick up words from context.
Canticos Bilingual Preschool: Preschoolers sing nursery rhymes, watch videos, read books and play games in English and Spanish.
Endless Spanish: Kids drag wiggly letters back into Spanish words and watch the Endless monsters act out what they mean.
Tiny Wrist Bilingual Books: Bilingual Vietnamese and English board books, picture books and a sing-along music book about Vietnamese rhymes, colours and festivals.
Storyline Online: Filmed readings of children’s books, with actors reading aloud while the illustrations appear on screen.
StoryWeaver: A multilingual picture-book library from Pratham Books, covering everyday life, adventures, science and nature.
Free Kids Books: A collection of downloadable picture books, stories and educational texts gathered from many contributors.
Unite for Literacy: Short picture books with narration available in many home languages.
Gus on the Go: A set of language apps that introduce vocabulary through illustrated lessons, reviews and games.
African Storybook: Illustrated reading material in African languages, with tools for finding, using and adapting stories.
Book Dash: Illustrated books to read online or download, with many South African settings and languages.
Let’s Read: Let’s Read is a digital library of children’s picture books drawn from communities across Asia and the Pacific.
Literacy Cloud: Room to Read’s Literacy Cloud is an online library of children’s books, with read-aloud videos and material for adults who help children read.
Storybooks Canada: Storybooks Canada offers illustrated stories with text and audio in English, French and many immigrant and refugee languages.
Indigenous Storybooks: Indigenous Storybooks gathers illustrated stories, text and, where it exists, audio for children, families and educators.
Nal’ibali Stories: Nal’ibali’s audio-story page collects recorded stories in South African languages.
British Council LearnEnglish Kids: LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council’s site of English-language games, songs, stories, videos and printable activities.
Duolingo ABC: Duolingo ABC is an early-reading app for learning to read and write in English.
Read Along by Google: Read Along by Google pairs stories and word games with an on-screen reading companion that listens as a child reads aloud.
VL2 Storybook Apps: VL2 Storybook Apps are illustrated digital books that pair signed storytelling with written text, made by Motion Light Lab at Gallaudet University.

Ages 6–8

TRT Çocuk: A Turkish-language children’s site with games, program episodes, short videos and a live TV section.
Studycat: Young kids tap, match and sing their way through first words in Spanish, French, German, Chinese or English.
Dinolingo: Kids watch animated lessons, sing songs and play games in any of 50 languages.
Little Pim: Little ones watch five-minute episodes in which a cartoon panda and native speakers introduce words in a new language.
Salsa: Kids watch puppets act out familiar fairy tales entirely in Spanish and pick up words from context.
Storyline Online: Filmed readings of children’s books, with actors reading aloud while the illustrations appear on screen.
StoryWeaver: A multilingual picture-book library from Pratham Books, covering everyday life, adventures, science and nature.
International Children’s Digital Library: A simplified archive of children’s books from around the world, kept online after an earlier closure announcement.
Free Kids Books: A collection of downloadable picture books, stories and educational texts gathered from many contributors.
Unite for Literacy: Short picture books with narration available in many home languages.
Gus on the Go: A set of language apps that introduce vocabulary through illustrated lessons, reviews and games.
African Storybook: Illustrated reading material in African languages, with tools for finding, using and adapting stories.
Let’s Read: Let’s Read is a digital library of children’s picture books drawn from communities across Asia and the Pacific.
Literacy Cloud: Room to Read’s Literacy Cloud is an online library of children’s books, with read-aloud videos and material for adults who help children read.
Storybooks Canada: Storybooks Canada offers illustrated stories with text and audio in English, French and many immigrant and refugee languages.
Indigenous Storybooks: Indigenous Storybooks gathers illustrated stories, text and, where it exists, audio for children, families and educators.
Nal’ibali Stories: Nal’ibali’s audio-story page collects recorded stories in South African languages.
British Council LearnEnglish Kids: LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council’s site of English-language games, songs, stories, videos and printable activities.
The Fable Cottage: The Fable Cottage retells well-known tales for language learners, with narration, optional parallel English text and videos for many stories.
Duolingo ABC: Duolingo ABC is an early-reading app for learning to read and write in English.
Read Along by Google: Read Along by Google pairs stories and word games with an on-screen reading companion that listens as a child reads aloud.
Little Fox: Little Fox is a library of animated stories and songs for children learning English, sorted by level and series.
VL2 Storybook Apps: VL2 Storybook Apps are illustrated digital books that pair signed storytelling with written text, made by Motion Light Lab at Gallaudet University.

Ages 9–12

Dinolingo: Kids watch animated lessons, sing songs and play games in any of 50 languages.
StoryWeaver: A multilingual picture-book library from Pratham Books, covering everyday life, adventures, science and nature.
International Children’s Digital Library: A simplified archive of children’s books from around the world, kept online after an earlier closure announcement.
Free Kids Books: A collection of downloadable picture books, stories and educational texts gathered from many contributors.
Duolingo: Language practice through short exercises with words, sentences, listening and speaking.
British Council LearnEnglish Kids: LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council’s site of English-language games, songs, stories, videos and printable activities.
The Fable Cottage: The Fable Cottage retells well-known tales for language learners, with narration, optional parallel English text and videos for many stories.
Digital Dialects: Digital Dialects is a language-learning site with vocabulary games, word lists, flashcards and audio exercises in a long list of languages.
Little Fox: Little Fox is a library of animated stories and songs for children learning English, sorted by level and series.

Ages 13+

Dinolingo: Kids watch animated lessons, sing songs and play games in any of 50 languages.
Duolingo: Language practice through short exercises with words, sentences, listening and speaking.
Digital Dialects: Digital Dialects is a language-learning site with vocabulary games, word lists, flashcards and audio exercises in a long list of languages.