https://www.engineeringnews.co.za

Interactive app teaches SA languages

Image of a tablet device with picture of the Ambani gamified app that helps teach South African languages

The Ambani app helps teach South African languages

7th October 2022

     

Font size: - +

A new language-learning application (app) aims to help South Africans build the confidence and skills to communicate with each other in their mother tongue.

The Ambani gaming app is aimed at foundation phase learners and offers instruction in six different languages, with isiZulu proving most popular. The lessons are designed to be fun and educational, focussing on various themes and games. Users range from young children and parents of learners switching from mother-tongue to English as a medium of instruction, South Africans living abroad who want their children to learn about their cultural heritage and language, children who are required to learn an African language at school and ordinary South Africans wanting to acquire a basic proficiency in an additional language.

The Ambani gamified app won the 2021 Best Gaming Solution in MTN’s Business App of the year competition and currently has over 7 000 active users. The app was developed by Mukundi Lambani, who holds a master’s degree in creative technology, with a focus on ‘augmented reality’, and who has a background in the film industry and experience in teaching English as a second language in Korea. Lambani says that there are plans to develop language courses for learners at higher levels, including university level.

MTN Business head of marketing Kholofelo Magagane explains that the MTN Business app of the year competition aims to attract local entrepreneurs and those wanting to launch start-ups and app-based products and services.

Article Enquiry

Email Article

Save Article

Feedback

To advertise email advertising@creamermedia.co.za or click here

Showroom

Airshrink - CiP
Airshrink - CiP

At Airshrink - CiP, we surpass customer expectations with innovative MV and LV cable accessories, including heat shrink joints, terminations,...

VISIT SHOWROOM 
AirNox Pty Ltd
AirNox Pty Ltd

AirNox (Pty) Ltd is a level 1 BBBEE manufacturer of complete AdBlue® solutions for operators of SCR diesel engines and AUS40 across South Africa...

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







301

sq:0.103 0.964s - 238pq - 4rq
Subscribe Now