LeoParle
French speaking practice, ages 9–11
For grown-ups. You can change this later in the parents section.
About 5 minutes a lesson. Your child talks to Léo out loud. Join in when you can.
You can change this anytime in the parents section.
Léo listens for your child's voice. He checks that your child spoke, not that it was perfect.
You can change this anytime in the parents section.
Tap a sticker to play that lesson again. Stickers sparkle when they're practised. The glowing spot is the next lesson.
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Léo listens for your child's voice before moving on
The microphone only checks that your child spoke. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere.
When it's your child's turn to speak
“Écoute-toi!”: once a lesson, your child hears Léo's word, then their own voice
The recording stays on this device, plays once, and is thrown away. It is never saved or sent.
Lesson lock: during a lesson, LeoParle fills the screen and the back button stays in the lesson. Your child stops by holding 🏠 for 2 seconds.
To lock the whole device (home button too): on iPad or iPhone, turn on Guided Access; on Android, use App pinning; on a Chromebook, install LeoParle as an app and open it full screen.
Five minutes of French a day, even if you don't speak French.
Over 300 short lessons in five seasons, Léo takes your child from first words to sentences, questions and little conversations: about 700 words and phrases in all. He shows each new one, your child says it out loud (Léo listens for their voice before moving on), then uses it in a picture game. Old words come back at growing gaps so they stick, and from Season 2 there are short listening stories and sound games (clapping syllables, rhymes, first sounds) that prepare for reading. No reading, no scores, nothing to get wrong.
When Léo says "Et maman? Et papa?", join in if you're nearby. Then use the words below in the car or at dinner. In the first season your child repeats just the word ("chat"), while Léo always says it with its little word ("le chat"). Both are right: keep using the full form when you speak, and it will come.
Léo grows with your child. After every unit review he gets something new to wear (a tuque, a chef's hat, skates…), and at the end of each season he transforms (Léo le Curieux, le Bavard, le Détective, le Conteur, then Grand Léo). Tap his closet to dress him: he names each thing in French. Only new lessons count, so practice can't rush it. Léo's voice gives the French, so you don't need to.
Try this:
Sound of the week:
Tick what you notice at home. It's for you, not a test, and the app never scores your child.
Each season has 12 units. Each unit has four lessons with new words and a fifth that reviews them; each season ends with a big finale. About four minutes a lesson. At Léo's pace, that's a little over a school year.
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LeoParle is made by Flourixa Technologies Inc., Calgary, Alberta.
For kids who know some French but freeze when it's time to speak.
Every turn ends with your child saying French out loud. No typing, no score, no red X's. Support steps down as they get braver:
In the later places the English hints start hidden, so your child leans on them less as the season goes on.
In this demo your child taps "I said it" themselves; the full app hears them. No recordings are kept.
Mission accomplie!