🇭🇷 Croatian primer · iPhone and iPad

A child learns to read.
A badger helps.

Letters, syllables, words and sentences, in the order Croatian schools teach them. Ruvi says the task, the child picks a card, and whatever is missed comes back until it sticks.

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Home screen: Bok, Luka! Levels Alphabet, Capital letters, Small letters, Syllables

From sound to sentence, like the primer

Croatian is read as it is written, so it is learned from sounds. Every level has its own world and its own badger face.

Capital letters

Hear a letter and find it among the cards. See a letter and find its sound.

6 rounds · A E I O U → LJ NJ DŽ Đ

Small letters

The capital on top, the small one among the cards: the child matches them.

6 rounds

Syllables

MA, MO, MU… the wrong cards share the consonant or the vowel, so the ear has to catch both.

6 rounds

Words and sentences

Read the word and find the picture. Read the sentence and find what is happening.

3 + 2 rounds

This is what a lesson looks like

A tap picks a card, the Confirm button checks it. Nothing is read aloud on the child's behalf: what has to be read stays silent until they answer.

Lesson: the badger says Find the letter you hear, three cards A, I, E and the Confirm button

End of a round: Perfect, Luka! Three stars, the badger jumps

Prize: a crown, confetti, stars everywhere

Hear the letter, find it

Ruvi says: «Find the letter you hear.» The Listen button plays the letter as many times as needed. The child taps a card, then Confirm.

Three stars for a clean round

At the end of a round Ruvi jumps for joy, stars rain down, and whatever was missed returns in the next round until it sticks.

World finished: a prize

The last round of a world brings a prize to its plinth: confetti, stars everywhere and fireworks. Ruvi announces it aloud, with the child's name.

A road through five worlds

Meadow, desert, jungle, sea and mountains. Every round is a stop on the road, the badger stands on the one that is next, and a prize waits at the end of every world.

The road: a meadow with a hedgehog and a squirrel, the first stop, the badger waiting

The road: a desert with cacti and a camel, then a jungle with palms

End of the road: sea, mountains, prizes on plinths and the Finale

Meadow: capital letters

The first six stops. Ruvi stands on the one that is next, stars gather under each, and the rest wait locked until the previous one is passed.

Desert and jungle

Small letters among cacti and camels, syllables among palms and monkeys. Every world has its own sky and its own animals.

Sea, mountains, Finale

Words at sea, sentences in the mountains, and at the end the Finale: every prize on its plinth, and fireworks once they are all won.

A prize for every world

At the end of every world Ruvi brings a prize to its plinth: confetti, stars, fireworks. Keep scrolling, then tap a prize.

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StarCapital letters

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TrophySmall letters

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CrownSyllables

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GemWords

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CastleSentences

For parents

Made for one child and his mum, so it works the way we would want it to.

No account, sign-in or passwords
No ads; the first three worlds are free, one purchase unlocks the rest
No tracking or analytics: nothing leaves the device
Works offline; the voice and the common names are recorded ahead of time
Remembers what the child mixes up and brings it back
Leaving the app goes through a parent gate
Settings: speech speed, card size, round length, sounds, haptics
Interface in Croatian and English; the badger always speaks Croatian

How the memory works

Every letter, syllable, word and sentence has its record: how often seen, how often missed, how many times right in a row. A miss comes back in the same round, then in the next ones, and stays «weak» until it is right twice in a row. Every level has a Review round with just those.

Rounds unlock one after another along the whole road: all the capital letters first, only then small letters, syllables, words and sentences.

Questions

Whose voice is it?

Gabrijela, a Croatian neural voice from Microsoft's Azure Speech service, recorded ahead of time for every word and sentence in the app, so it works offline. If a recording is missing, Lana, the Croatian voice built into iOS, steps in; it can also be chosen in the settings, along with the speech speed.

Is it free?

The first three worlds are. One purchase in the App Store, «Full Abecedica», unlocks the rest; it sits behind the parent gate and works on every device with the same Apple Account.

What age is it for?

Four to eight, from the first letters to the first sentences. The child does not need to read the interface: the badger says everything aloud.

Does it need the internet?

No. Everything is in the app, including recordings of the common first names (Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and international), so the badger calls the child by name offline. A rarer name is said by the device voice, or a parent records it.

What if the child guesses?

A lucky guess comes back soon: everything has to be right twice in a row before the app stops repeating it.

A child learns to read.A badger helps.