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Speakazoo is a FREE app that presents the student with a series of animals in the wild. Each animal has its own personality (and ethnicity) and story to tell. When the student taps on the animal it will tell parts of its story, then it will leve a space or ask you a question. When you answer it almost instantly will analyse your response and talk back. For example, the Dolphin will ask you to cheer her on and say a certain phrase, if you do it right she will perform a trick. Other animals will ask things like your favourite colour or food and respond in kind.
Receive regular emails with the conversations your children have had with the app.
Receive regular emails with the conversations your children have had with the app.
It really is a bit of a fun distraction, (the conversations are basic, but simple and fun) but I see its possibility as a valuable learning tool for our students that are new to the country and learning English. You see, a lot of our students practice their conversational skills in the classroom or playground but in a lot of cases they may not be able to do this at home. Speakazoo is a way that our young learners can keep practicing this important skill at home and there is also a great way for the teacher or parent to keep track.
Speakazoo (and all the apps that ToyTalk make) value your children's safety and privacy (it is certified by the KidsSafe seal policy). Before using the app a parent or teacher needs to enter their email address. This will enable the app (remember it is actually sending the recoding off to a mass of computers, doing some crazy cloud computing, then sending it back to the device). The best part is it will keep a recording of all your conversations with the animals and email these back so you can listen afterwards.
So, a very interesting app that falls well into the category of having fun (and not knowing I am learning!)
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