Galaxy Kids Chinese: A fantastic app for kids

All parents who want their kids to study Chinese wonder which method works best. Obviously, there’s not a single silver bullet, whether its classes with a teacher, books for kids, or an app. But we think Galaxy Kids fits the needs of a lot of kids (and their parents for that matter, especially ages from 3 to 8 years old.

With Galaxy Kids, they’ll learn to:

To understand and use 1,000 Chinese words
Speak proper Chinese on +50 different topics and situations

Plus they’ll learn it through videos, games, songs, and exercises that feel like playing, rather than learning.

Galaxy Kids Chinese

Preview of Galaxy Kids

The company behind Galaxy Kids has previously made a super popular English learning app, and many of their customers asked if they also have a Chinese version. That’ll be released in early 2022.

Their team consists of curriculum designers, video creators, and programmers who have put their skills together for this fantastic app.

Galaxy Kids

Functions of the app

The biggest feature is AI (artificial intelligence) that can recognize the speaking of your child, and check the pronunciation for mistakes. Because pronunciation is key in Mandarin, with its four tones and foreign sounds, this is a key aspect of learning the language, so to have AI help you with this is fantastic.

An example case is:
Child says:

Wǒ xǐhuān tī zúqiū!

And the app will notify the user on the pronunciation of for instance 球(qiú):

Wǒ xǐhuān tī zúqiú!

Children will feel they’re conversating with the app. Plus there are videos, stories, little games, and other exercises. All brought alive with four funny characters:
Maxi, Nana, Big Blue and the Noodle Monster.

Galaxy Kids Chinese

A structured curriculum

Galaxy Kids will launch with seven levels, each adding extra vocabulary and sentences, as well as topics to speak out.

Sample topics are:

Hobbies such as sports or painting
Talking about family members
Which food you like (or don’t like!)
Places such as the park or the zoo
Important days such as your own birthday!

The focus of the curriculum is on speaking and listening, rather than reading and writing. The content is mostly every day conversational Chinese, rather than literature Chinese.

Plus the app is clever in that new content is unlocked with each step, for step-by-step learning.