We had our family summer holiday in France this year and although I have plenty of French words stored in my head (thanks to my grammar drilling French teacher Miss Chettle), my pronunciation is terrible. In fact, it’s a bit like watching one of those comedy movies where someone totally out of their depth tries to speak a foreign language and ends up shouting and pointing everywhere. Thankfully for me, Triomphe, a new iPad app aimed at teaching French to school children has been recently released.
I’m going to say this right off the bat, but Triomphe is an app that has been carefully thought out and makes full use of the iPad’s interactive features to become more than just a textbook style teaching app. To start with, the app offers you various choices of learning the alphabet or the sounds of words and then couple of sections which have different ‘fill in the…
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