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A web app for learning everyday words and short phrases in 11 languages. There are 227 words and phrases in 15 picture decks, from greetings and family to food, numbers and travel. Each picture card plays the word in a clear AI voice, then you practise with short games such as Find it!, How many? and I spy. There is also a separate English reading tutor for children from Kindergarten to Grade 3.

Children, teens and adults. The app has three age modes: Little Explorer (ages 2 to 5), Big Kid (6 to 12) and Teens and Grown-ups (13+). You pick a mode when you first open the app and can change it any time from the header; there is no age check. Little Explorer has bigger pictures and buttons, and its game prompts are spoken, not written. Big Kid mode and Teens and Grown-ups mode add 16 travel phrases, Memory match and, for Arabic, the 28-letter alphabet with tracing. Speaking practice (Say it like Momo) is in all three modes, Little Explorer included.

No, and we would rather say so up front. Learning With Momo teaches vocabulary and short everyday phrases, plus the Arabic alphabet (letter names and shapes) and English phonics. It does not teach grammar or conversation, it is not a path to fluency, and it does not give certificates. There are no live tutors, teachers or classes, and no AI chatbot or AI tutor. Think of it as picture cards with audio and games, for building everyday words and travel phrases.

No download is needed. Learning With Momo is a web app that runs in a modern web browser on phone, tablet or computer. You can add it to your home screen, where it opens in its own window like an app; there is no App Store or Google Play version. Offline use is partial. In Big Kid mode and Teens and Grown-ups mode, tap Save offline on the My progress screen to download the audio for your current language and your "I speak" language, about 8 to 12 MB. Clips you have already played, including reading tutor clips, are kept on the device as well. Offline use lasts up to 7 days after the app last checked your membership; then it asks you to go online once before you carry on. Speaking practice needs microphone permission and a browser that can record audio.

A separate English reading tutor that teaches phonics from Kindergarten to Grade 3, in 7 levels. Each session moves from first sounds and blending to reading words and, from level 2, one short sentence. After 8 minutes, it skips ahead to the balloon game and the reward. Every finished step earns a coin, and coins build a treehouse. One account can have up to 6 readers, and their progress is saved on your account, so it follows them from one device to another. A grown-ups area has a printable parent report showing the reader's level, this week's sessions and minutes, and what needs more practice. The reading tutor stops at Grade 3, so it is not meant for teens or adults, and it does not teach reading in Arabic or any other language.

A child's voice never leaves the device. Recordings in Say it like Momo and in the reading tutor stay in the browser's memory, each new take replaces the last, and they are gone when the page reloads. No recording is ever uploaded or saved on our servers. In the reading tutor, the microphone is off until a grown-up turns it on, and the grown-ups area is behind a parent check. There is no speech recognition anywhere in the app.

No. There are no ads or ad networks. We do keep our own record of how the app is used, under your account email: app opens, screens and decks opened, minutes, stars, game scores, missed words, language, age mode, and whether the app is installed or used offline. Each day's usage record is deleted 61 days after the day it covers, and your account's line in the daily site totals 121 days after. The reading tutor stores each reader's nickname (up to 16 characters), animal, level and results on our server, under your account; the usage record never includes a child's nickname. A family account also stores each learner's first name or nickname (up to 16 characters), age and animal on our server, under your account; the usage record notes only which learner number was picked, never the name or age. Messages sent from the in-app feedback box are kept with your email for up to 12 months. Fonts are served from our own servers, so no font service sees your visit. Learning With Momo is run by 1001569350 Ontario Inc., a Canadian company, under Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA).

Only on a family account, which you cannot choose at sign-up yet. A family account holds up to 5 people in the language app. On first open it asks how many are learning, then each person's first name or nickname, age and an animal picture. After that it asks "Who's learning today?" every time the app opens, and each person has their own stars, stickers, streak, deck scores, language and age mode. That progress stays on each device and does not sync between devices, although the list of names, ages and animals shows on every device signed in to the account. On an ordinary account there are no separate learner profiles in the language app: stars, stickers and streaks are kept once per browser, do not sync or follow your account, and are not cleared by signing out, so everyone who uses the same browser shares one set of progress. The age mode is also saved on the device, so switch it from the header when a different child picks up the tablet. In the reading tutor, any account can have up to 6 readers, each with their own level and results.