When a child learns their first language, they naturally build fluency in 4 simple steps that blend seamlessly together. Our app brings you through these same steps, helping you master a new language. Whether you’re starting with French, Spanish, Italian, German, or another language in our app, the journey follows these four core stages:
listening, understanding, imitating, and, finally, speaking.
Listening
During the first 4 years of a child's life, they listen and observe. With their big curious eyes they listen to the world around them and hear thousands of hours of their native language. They notice repeated words and phrases, slowly understanding which ones matter most and are worth learning first.
Understanding
How does a child begin to understand words?
Context plays a big role. As children observe objects, actions, and situations around them, they start to connect words to meanings. Even before speaking, infants understand each word just by watching and listening.
Imitation
But how does a child go from listening and understanding words to speaking?
As they hear the “sound of words” and connect these sounds to the world around them, they naturally begin to imitate. Each babble is met with kindness and support, helping their imitations gradually turn into words. Unlike many modern teaching methods that expect perfection right from the start, this natural process allows children, and even adults, to learn through practice and exploration.
Speech
As the child imitates and babbles more and more, their sounds slowly transform into words. These words come together to form short sentences that let the child express what they like, dislike or want. By continuing to listen, children learn more words and start to use them in their speech.
The main point to remember is: to master a language we have to try speaking (even if we babble sometimes).
The Mooveez app was created around these 4-steps, so with its help, you will embark on a journey to speak your desired language with confidence and ease, just like kids.
