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Helpful Apps & Websites for Multilingual Learners

Helpful Websites
Website Grade Description
Universal Kids (formerly Sprout) PreK
Provides educational games and TV show episodes. May require log-in information from your cable provider for access to some of the content.
Starfall

PreK-2nd
Large collection of reading contents and songs.
PBS Kids PreK-3rd Educational games, songs, and full episodes of PBS kids shows.
ESL Fast K-5th Offers texts and audio guides for intermediate ESL students.
Reading A to Z K-5th Collection of books with activities, games, quizzes, and other similar types of learning tools for beginner, intermediate, or advanced students.
Daily ESL 3rd-8th Collection of reading and audio materials that focus on short conversation starters and everyday topics.
ESL Lab 3rd-8th
Listening quizzes on everyday conversations. Organized by skill and level.
Sofas and Sectionals K-12th, adults
List of sites that offer activities, games, quizzes, and other similar types of learning tools for beginners, intermediate or advanced students.
EDUfind 3rd-12th, adults English grammar guide tailored for advanced ESL students. Grammar rules are listed in English only.
Using English 5th-12th, adults Quizzes, forums, writing references, and guides.
CDLP Online 9th-12th Collection of audio news on a range of topics including law, health, and housing.
Colorin Colorado Parents/guardians & educators Provides parent tips and book recommendations by age and grade level.
Reading Rockets Parents/guardians & educators Offers a wealth of research-based reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn to read. Helpful for building fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills

 

  • Apps for Multilingual Families

    Learning Languages

    • Awabe (Android)- Improve language listening skills. No internet connection required. 
    • Beelinguapp (iPhone and Android)- learn languages with audiobooks. 
    • Busuu (iPhone and Android)- 20 lessons are free and remaining lessons are available for purchase. 
    • DuoLingo (iPhone and Android)- A language-learning website and app, as well as a digital language proficiency assessment exam. The website and app are free for basic language lesson. 
    • Hello English (iPhone and Android)- Learn spoken English and grammar from Hindi, Indonesian, Arabic, Malay, Urdu, Malay, Bengali, Punjabi, Telugu Tamil, Kannada, Marathi, Gujarati, Oriya, Assamese, Malayalam Chinese, Portugese, Turkish, and Nepali.  A free English learning course used by over 15 million learners for spoken English, grammar, and vocbulary building. 
    • Learning English Daily (Android)- Free applicaton for learning to speak English.  "Learning English Daily" contains lessons that give special attention to English pronunciation and everyday language. 
    • Speaking Pal English Tutor (iPhone or Android)- Lessons of approximately 5 minutes each. 
    • Voxy (iPhone and Android)- News and stories on a variety of topics, and games for langauge practice, with quizzes to test comprehension. 
    • Lingbe (Andriod)- Call a native speaker who will help you practice who will help you practice at any time you want. Lingbe will connec you instantly with someone available. 
    • Memrise (iPhone and Android)- Use some creative, funny ways to help you remember what words mean.  Memrise courses are designed by users.

    Interpretation and Translation

    • Google Translate (iPhone and Android)- Free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages. 
    • iTranslate (iPhone and Android)- Use to listen, speak, read, and write in many languages. 
    • SayHi (iPhone and Android)- Speak and listen in many languages. 
    • TextGrabber (iPhone and Android)- Read in many languages. 
    • Microsoft Translater (iPhone and Android)- Texting and conversation. 
    • WeChat (iPHone and Android)- Good for texting in many languages.