Language Nursery Rhymes is a multi-platform applications that uses fun, interactive and familiar nursery rhymes to expose children to French, German, Spanish and Italian.

[testimonial name=”John Wilkerson” company=”The Wired Homeschool”]If you’d like to expose your children to foreign languages, Language Nursery School hits the mark using popular nursery rhymes with its excellent narration in a fun and interactive way.[/testimonial]

Beyond giving kids a head start on new languages, Language Nursery School can aid in your child’s cognitive skills. Jürgen Meisel, of the Language Research Centre, says that children have an inborn language acquisition faculty that, during age 18 to 36 months, enables them to develop and productively use large parts of the grammar of the languages they have been exposed to since birth. Ellen Bialystok, of York University, has found that children exposed to more than one language tend to perform better on exercises that require blocking out distractions and switching between two or more different tasks. These studies and more show consistently the educational benefit of exposure to different languages.

Language Nursery School has other benefits including increase multi-cultural awareness, increased ability to decipher sounds and meanings, as well as an appreciation for the rhythms and structures of other languages. Most importantly, it gives parents a quality activity to spend time with their kids.

The application brings to life the following seven nursery rhymes:

  • Hey Diddle Diddle
  • This Little Piggy
  • The Itsy Bitsy Spider
  • Jack and Jill
  • Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
  • Star Light Star Bright
  • Rock-a-bye Baby

Each nursery rhyme has been recorded in the following five languages:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish

Kids can interact with the scenes, clicking on the different characters as well as each word to hear how it is pronounced.

We have finished most of the design work and recordings, and currently have a functioning prototype.  We are in the final stages of producing the application in the following different platforms:

  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • Android
  • OSX
  • Windows
  • iBooks
  • Chrome

Find out more about Language Nursery School on the app website. (http://www.languagenurseryschool.com/)