THE FUN AND UNIQUE WAY TO LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
WHY CHOOSE GLURBS?
It's a unique way of learning languages! Glurbs puts the players in charge by giving them control over the lessons and games.
Exciting rewards keep players motivated to continue learning! By completing lessons, players will unlock further gameplay, including new planets and mini games.
Fun, interactive and effective lessons! Our lessons have been carefully designed and created by language specialists to be fun and interactive while also improving the players linguistic ability.
FAQs
- Glurbs is a game for language learners that blends foreign language learning into a fun and interactive game. The language learning and game play take place simultaneously and each is dependent on the other.
- Players are taken on a journey through different planets and galaxies where they will learn different bits of language at each stage. Their language learning journey is progressive so the further they get through the planets and galaxies the more of the language they will learn.
- They are represented in the journey by their Glurb (their own avatar character) which they can personalise with different costumes, colours and accessories in the app.
- Glurbs is designed to keep players engaged, motivated and learning in a way that feels like play, not studying!
- The Glurbs app is free to download and includes a generous selection of free content your child can enjoy at no cost, for as long as they like.
- If your child wants to explore even more, you have the option to unlock full access to the whole app for a small monthly subscription of just £0.99. This is decided by you, and you have to choose to subscribe within the app.
- You can cancel your subscription at any time and will only be billed up to the end of the month you cancel in.
- Glurbs is completely safe.
- It has no chatrooms or direct interactions between players or anyone else. This keeps players engaged, learning and having fun in a completely safe and secure environment.
- Each planet is based around a specific amount of the foreign language the player will learn. For example, the circus planet teaches greetings in the foreign language.
- The player is guided through a series of interactive learning exercises at the end of which they complete a fun, interactive learning ‘challenge race’ based on the content they have learnt.
- If the player completes the challenge successfully, they will unlock a fun game as a reward!
- This fun learning – fun challenge process is repeated until the player has completed all of the language in the planet. They then move onto the next planet in their galaxy to learn new language.
- Their language learning journey is progressive so the further they get through the planets and galaxies the more of the language they will learn.
- Glurbs keeps players engaged, motivated and learning through interactive fun!
- Each planet is based around different elements of the foreign language.
- The language develops progressively. The further the player gets through the planets and galaxies, the greater the quantity and complexity of the language they will learn.
- Players will learn language around the following topics:
- Greetings
- Colours
- Numbers
- Days of the week
- Months of the year
- The date
- Weather and the seasons
- How to say your name, age and when your birthday is
- Family
- Describing ourselves and others
- Describing how we're feeling
- Describing where we live
- Directions
- Players will learn their foreign language by developing the four modalities (key language skills) in the foreign language of; speaking, listening, reading and writing.
- Unfortunately, once the account has been confirmed as deleted, there is no way of recovering the account.
- Don’t worry, we will ask you a number of times if you’re sure you want to delete your account to make doubly sure this is actually what you want to do. It is very difficult to delete your account by accident.
- Yes, you are able to create multiple accounts using the same email. You can do this if you want to change your language, set up an account for a family member or just want to start again.
- If you want to learn a new language, simply create a new account and select the language you would like to learn!
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