Spanish Safari for Kids

I initially was very frustrated with this app because it immediately asked for a subscription. I wanted to just try it. Since it was advertised as free, I felt deceived. There is a free 7 day trial, but remember your password- they are working on the glitches of recovering your password at the moment. I am impressed that when I responded to an email, even though I got an automated response saying it wasn’t going to anyone, I still got a response from someone. They are making efforts to correct issues and that is promising.

We have had the application for over a month, but cannot reset the parent portal password. We are able to reset it within the game/app, but it doesn’t change the parent portal, so it is now inaccessible and leaves us unable to change our subscription. Additionally, when using their website to access the parent portal, the reset password link only shows when you attempt to subscribe with an already existing account, but following the password reset form leads to an HTTP 500 error after trying to submit the email to reset the parent portal password. AND when trying to respond to the welcome emails that say to respond if you need help, they reject all messages that are not part of their domain, effector blocking the ability to ask for help!

I adore this app! It was made for children, ages 5-9, to learn and practice Spanish, but my 3 year old has been playing it. We've been playing it for about a month now and even though we've done many of the same levels/games over and over, she keeps asking me to play it because "it's my favorite." I may be biased, as I minored in Spanish in undergrad and love the language, but it makes my heart so happy to hear her repeating the Spanish words and learning her numbers, colors, and letters. (And it's a great refresher for mommy, too!). She really likes it when the monkey, Arturo, tells her, "Muy bien!" As an Early Childhood therapist, I also highly recommend this app to others. There are so many benefits for children learning a 2nd language: better language acquisition at earlier ages, larger vocabulary, better executive functioning skills (critical thinking, problem solving, memory, mental flexibility, ability to multitask), increased creativity, higher academic success/achievement, and promotes cultural awareness and enrichment. This app is such a benefit to professionals and parents!