BaoBeiTalk

A calm storybook for one- to four-year-olds, in Mandarin, English and Bahasa Melayu. Three things at once, and it is the combination that is hard to find: · Your child hears a familiar voice — yours, if you record it · Three languages, all of them fully taught, not one with language packs · A session that ends. We hand them back to you. Tap a picture and it says the word, makes its sound, then says something about it. "Cow. Mooooo. Brown cow." It never asks your child a question, because a question is a test, and a child who cannot answer one learns that talking is a test too. THE SAME WORDS, ALL THE WAY THROUGH Cat becomes "The cat is sleeping" becomes a story with a cat in it becomes a song you sing together. One vocabulary, six ways of meeting it. · 153 words, every one in all three languages, with pinyin · 37 short sentences built only from those words · 32 stories, from four pages…