Methodology · for schools

The dossier an academic coordinator asks for

Before approving a tool, a school needs to know what it is aligned to, what data it touches and what it is missing. All three answers are here, including the third.

Alignment: CEFR declared lesson by lesson

There's no «approximate level» to the app: each lesson carries its level and CEFR equivalence in the file itself, and the system rejects any label outside the closed list. 5 declared levels, from Pre-A1 to A2 — the range where primary school lives.

Sequence: 24 structures and a single vocabulary ledger

The progression isn't a list of topics: it's a ledger where every word knows which lessons it appears in, and comes back on average 5.9 lessons later. On top of it sit 24 grammar structures from a closed, validated list. That lets us say what has been worked on, not just what has been seen.

What the teacher sees

Progress per student and per group, lessons assigned and completed, and which students are falling behind. Enough to act in class on Monday.

What the school cannot see, by design

No recording of the student’s voice: it is processed for feedback and discarded. And the school’s admin account does not obtain the identity of the student behind a progress record: the separation is in the database, not in the interface.

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.

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CEFR levels, from Pre-A1 to A2: 24
Grammar structures: ⁦15–25⁩
Minutes of work per lesson: 5.9
Lessons later each word comes back

What the school gets

A school doesn't buy songs: it buys a rollout that has to work on Monday morning. This is what the licence includes.

A teacher dashboard with each student's and each group's progress, and who is falling behind.
Students enrolled by licence, with no minor having to create a personal account or hand over their own data.
The full catalogue, no song limit, in every language we teach.
The five steps of each lesson designed to fit inside one class period.
Invoicing to the school and a named contact, not a form.

What is not ready today

There's no standardised assessment or LMS export yet. It's on the plan, not in the product: if your school needs it to approve the purchase, tell whoever is helping you before you sign.
The content is served in several languages. If your school is bilingual and needs a certified linguistic review of those versions, let's talk before you sign — it isn't something we can promise on a website.
It doesn't measure reading comprehension or advanced grammar, because it doesn't teach them.

Proof, without testimonials

We have no users yet. Here is what we can show you.

An app that hasn't launched has no family testimonials, and the ones you see on products like this are usually made up. We'd rather show you things you can check yourself, without taking our word for it. Next to that is the list of what we still can't prove.

You can check it yourself

The four-layer karaoke works and it plays: it's a real fragment of one of our songs, with the voice and the music on separate tracks. Try it here
The music is ours: composed, written and recorded for FonoBeat. Not one third-party track.
No ads, no trackers and no data collected from your child. It's written out in detail, not in a one-line claim. Read what we collect
Prices are published in full, with what each plan includes and no small print. See the prices

Not yet

Family testimonials: we haven't launched, so they don't exist. The day they do, they'll be from real people with names.
Measured learning outcomes: saying «your child improves by X» takes months of real use, not a promise.
Awards, press and schools using us: none of that has happened yet, and we're not filling the gap with logos.

This column shrinks on its own: everything that comes true moves to the one beside it. We won't delete it when it's empty — we'll fill it with whatever is next.

Shall we talk about your school?

The schools page explains licences, deployment and the teacher dashboard. If you would rather write directly, the sales address is on the contact page.

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