PetraLingua® Online Language Courses for Children

PetraLingua® is a bright, colourful and cheerful program that involves visually stimulating videos, catchy songs, interesting characters and interactive exercises. In addition to being a great site for the monolingual child learning another language, it can also be a resource for the bilingual child to continue to reinforce the minority language.

Who are the PetraLingua® online multimedia language courses designed for?

PetraLingua® online multimedia language courses are designed for children between the ages of 3 and 10 years, but also for grownups who still feel the child inside of them!

Contents of PetraLingua® online multimedia language courses for chidren:

• 20 everyday topics
• 11 songs
• 80 animated videos
• 140 interactive exercises
• 500 basic words
• talking picture dictionary for kids
• downloadable activity books, songs and listening exercises

PetraLingua® Language Lessons

Petralingua® language courses teach the kids the basics of Spanish, French, German, Russian or Chinese, through common everyday situations that relate to things that are relevant and familiar to their world.  This is important for generating an interest and motivation for learning new things.

In each lesson new vocabulary is introduced through an introductory video sequence and a large number of lessons include songs composed to repeat and practice the vocabulary from the lesson. Children will gladly listen to the cheerful melodies more then once and quickly memorize the new words.

After each of the vocabulary videos, there are a bunch of interactive exercises that your children can play to practice what they learned. The games really help children remember the words and are easy to do. The exercises are suitable also for children that can't read. The exercises are never the same, because every time you refresh the page, you get a different set of English words to practice!

Within the Petralingua® lessons children also have access to an audio picture dictionary which focuses on repetition and memorizing the spoken word and supports learning alongside the interactive videos and exercises.

PLUS! A complete course activity book is available for download. The activity book includes all the topics covered by the course and gives the children a great opportunity to practice their reading and writing skills. Furthermore, to focus on their listening skills as well, the activity book includes a large number of listening exercises, also available to download.

Younger children and toddlers might enjoy more just watching the videos and singing along, while the older ones will have even more fun solving the exercises.

The courses cover the curriculum of the first 2-3 years of foreign language learning at schools, and are therefore suitable for the homeschoolers, as well as for classroom use.

They were used in classrooms, the kids loved them and acquired the new vocabulary fast, the parents were astonished by their results, so they even organized private kids-and-parents-larning-sessions on weekly basis and loved them as well.

The lessons are organized on a prgression pinciple, starting form child's closest surrondings and experiences, and providing revision sequences on regular basis, but the themes can also be covered randomly, according to each child's personal intersts and this way the courses use the learn-trough-play benefits even more.

Free Previews

Visitors can see one entire lesson per language for free:

Breakfast in the English course

Colors in the Chinese course

Toys in the Spanish course

Fruits and Vegetables in the French course

What's this? in the German course

Clothing in the Russian course

The contents of the courses for all languages are almost the same, which makes them a great resource to learn by comparing, either to their mother tongue, or to another language they already started learning.

Find out more about the lesson structure for each course:

English, Spanish, French, German, Russian and Chinese.

Subscription

To subscribe, you can choose from a one-month, tree-month, six-month or twelve-month membership period, and we're very happy to welcome our new users with a 15% discount with this promotion code: petralingua_welcome

Complete Language Learning Sets

PetraLingua® program is also available in complete language learning sets.

Find out more about contents of each set:

English, Spanish, French, German, Russian and Chinese.

The sets can be ordered through the PetraLingua® online shop.

Supported Browsers and Platforms:

The program works completly on Windows, MAC, iPad, iPhone, as well as on Android tablets and phones.

The PetraLingua® website is incredibly easy for kids to navigate and they will have trouble finding their way around the site from lesson to lesson.