Language Challenges, an app to test knowledge about European languages

Description: The Language Challenges app is an interactive language learning tool whose goal is to motivate and challenge learners to learn more European languages. It features a variety of quizzes and challenges for testing learners’ knowledge of European languages, allowing users to unlock progressive levels of difficulty. Examples of these tasks are identifying countries and their languages from images and texts or guessing languages after hearing a recording. Language Challenges is free and available for download on both iOS and Android devices. It does not require users to sign up, have an account, or have access to the internet. There is also a printable option of its contents for those who do not want to download it. Language Challenge was developed by the ECML team.

Evaluation: Language Challenges is a fun and engaging tool to learn about Europe's linguistic richness and heritage. It is not a language-learning app but rather helps users learn to identify languages from pictures, texts, and recordings and thereby foster their intercultural skills. Language Challenges is particularly well-suited for children and teenagers, and it can foster educational competition since users can compete with one another, compare scores, and share achievements on social media. It is particularly suitable to be used as part of the European Day of Languages (26th September).

Cost: Free.

Respect for privacy Privacy evaluations indicate how a tool handles personal data collection, storage, and sharing, including GDPR compliance and security measures, among others. The ICT-REV team provides them for informational purposes, reflecting our best understanding at the time of review, but assumes no legal responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of these evaluations and encourages users to conduct their own assessments: Medium/High. It requires setting up a very basic profile with name, age and location. Unfortunately, there is no privacy section in the app, but since it is supported by Google Apps, the usual policies apply. This means that Google apps collect personal data, which may later be shared with third parties. See more here. The European Centre for Modern Languages does not monetise or sell user data and uses Google services only for operational purposes.

Type Of Interaction: Individual work,

Content: Website/other users supply,

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