Chăm Luyện

What it does

Chăm Luyện helps Vietnamese primary-school children practise and take short tests on their own: lớp 1 Toán, Tiếng Việt, Đánh vần and Tập viết, and lớp 4 Toán, Tiếng Việt, Tiếng Anh, Lịch sử và Địa lí and Khoa học. It does not teach new lessons: it keeps the child company while they work, the way a patient older friend would. The app is in Vietnamese.

• Every question read aloud, in a Northern or a Southern accent, so a child who cannot read every word yet can still work alone. Tiếng Anh is read with an American English voice.
• Hints in steps. First a nudge on how to work it out, then a bigger clue, then an explanation that counts along with the voice. The answer is never given straight away.
• Letters traced on an ô li grid. The buddy shows each stroke and says where the pen starts, goes and stops.
• A buddy the child makes. Pick an animal, colours, eyes, a mouth and an outfit such as a red scarf or a conical hat. The buddy encourages after a mistake and never scolds.
• Stars and break time. Tests and practice earn stars and minutes for a small game. Grown-ups set the rules and how long a break lasts.
• No AI. Every line the child hears was written in advance; the buddy picks its lines by simple rules on the device.

Follows the 2018 national curriculum (Chương trình GDPT 2018) for lớp 1 and lớp 4, with original questions. Requires an iPhone or iPad with iOS 17 or later.

Privacy

Chăm Luyện has no ads, no accounts, no analytics and no tracking, and nothing about your child leaves the device. The app uses the internet for one thing: downloading extra voices, which are plain sound files. The full privacy policy says the same at more length.