According to official sources on August 15, Lingokids, an English language-learning platform developed by ELT – a division of Oxford University Press and a global leader in multimedia English language teaching – has reached over 5 million downloads worldwide with the most number of downloads from India with over 400000 users, followed by Brazil and Mexico since its launch in 2016. The percentage downloads from Maharashtra are at 22.9 percent (highest in India) followed by 16.4 percent in Delhi and 10.5 percent in Karnataka. The Online Education market In India is expected to touch US$ 1.96 billion by 2021 and witness an 8X growth in the next five years, according to a recent report by Google, KPMG. The reason for the demand for online education has been the growth in Internet penetration and easy accessibility to affordable and quality education online. Lingokids offers complete English courses with a wide array of activities for every learning style for kids from 2 to 8 years, besides well-researched, superior educational content.
50 percent of the ability to learn is developed in the first few years of life and Lingokids immersive programme encourages early learning and development for children by constantly exposing children to various grammatical structures and more than 3,000 vocabulary words, the apps hits-and-errors algorithm adapts each lesson to the child’s learning speed and the curriculum follows a methodology guided by a prestigious Board of Educators from diverse backgrounds in the field of education with expertise in literacy instruction, vocabulary development, child psychology, ESL instruction, and educational technology.
Comments Cristobal Viedma, CEO and founder, Lingokids, “The response from India for has been very positive and Lingokids has reached a milestone of over 400,000 users. The English language opens doors to the world and prepares children to become global citizens and our mission is to take down language barriers and provide equal opportunities for children across cultures. Lingokids is a perfect platform to give children a head start at learning in a 100 percent ad-free and safe environment.”