What FonoBeat does with your child’s time
A language app for children is judged on three things: what it does with the time you give it, what it tells you afterwards and what it keeps quiet. This page answers all three, with numbers you can check.
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The session: between 15 and 25 minutes, in five steps
A lesson is not “putting a song on”. It is five chained steps — listen, vocabulary, play, sing and the Challenge — on the same song. That chaining is what turns 15 minutes of screen into 15 minutes of practice.
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The repetition: 8.7 re-encounters per word
Each new word comes back, on average, in 8.7 LATER lessons — not inside the same song, which would be repetition for its own sake. Each lesson introduces 3.8 new words and recycles 33.5. It’s deliberately few: learning a few and meeting them again is what research on repetition links with learning them.
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The level: a scale with declared CEFR equivalence
Every lesson declares its level and its CEFR equivalence. The scale defines 12 levels, from Pre-A1 up to C2 in grammar and pragmatics, with a vocabulary that today reaches B1/B1+: every child starts on their own step, whatever their age, and the upper steps exist so nobody runs out of path. Defining a level isn't filling it — content lands level by level.
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What you are told: progress, not surveillance
You see how many days they practised and for how long, which songs they finished, how many new words they worked on and how their pronunciation is going in the Challenges. You don’t see — and neither do we — any recording of their voice: it’s processed to give feedback and discarded on the spot. No ads and no third-party trackers.
The programme in numbers
None of these numbers is written by hand on this page: they come from the design of the programme and from the vocabulary ledger, and they describe how the course is built — not how many songs got recorded this week.
- Explorer Pre-A1
- Apprentice A1
- Singer A1+
- Artist A2
- Star A2+
- Soloist B1
- Legend B1+
- Icon B2
- Virtuoso B2+
- Maestro C1
- Genius C1+
- Myth C2
What it focuses on
- Ear, vocabulary and pronunciation: what is learned by singing, and the base on which conversation grows later.
- Home practice: it goes alongside the language class and the school, and makes the week's work stick.
- Listening and saying: every song is vocabulary and sound, to the beat of the music.
Is this enough to decide?
If you want to see it working first, the how-it-works page has a real line you can walk through word by word.
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