All the teachers dealing with little children who just begin learning English as a foreign language know that the best way of teaching them new words is to associate visual images with sound. This way the children are able to both see the picture with the respective thing and hear the sound, the proper pronunciation of the word. They will learn new vocabulary little by little and they will be able to recognize the sound and also to speak it the next time they see an apple or want to talk about apples for example.
There are many software application that can help you in your vocabulary teaching, but the best ones are those that also offer the audio support, replacing the teacher’s speaking of the word. That helps especially if the word recorded is spoken by a native speaker , so the students can hear the proper pronunciation of the word, without any accents of any kind.
A very good example of such an useful tool is Speaking Images for Kids that is developed by a Russian guy called Kroum Grigorov. This tiny software is very easy to use and it’s also free. You can download it here and use for your children at home or for your kindergarten students or for any other beginners who want to learn English in a pleasant way. The audio support is great and clearly pronounced and the images are really colorful and nice to look at. The size of this utility is only 8 MB, so no need for too much space and also not too much knowledge of computer skills. You just have to download Speaking Images for Kids , install it on your computer and use it every time you need it or when you want to offer your kids a pleasant way of spending their afternoon.
At the moment there is only the English version available, but you can customize it by using the audio recording from any other language. Have fun using it!
