Polyglots: Zoo

The Polyglots are part of the Early Learning Languages Australia (ELLA) program, funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment and managed by Education Services Australia. The Polyglots apps are a series of seven engaging play-based language learning apps that encourage preschool and kindergarten children to explore another language and culture. Preschools set the apps to one language from a choice of Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Modern Greek, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnamese. The Polyglots apps are aligned to the Early Years Learning Framework. The Polyglots at the Zoo includes animals and food items from a range of cultures within the diverse environment of an open-range zoo. The app introduces new language relating to fruit and drinks while building on language learnt in apps 1, 2 and 3. Children will meet animals in the zoo; some are endangered species while others are culturally significant.