How It Works

What is GoGo Lingo? GoGo Lingo is a research-based, age-appropriate language learning system that customizes and adapts to your child's personal learning curve.

Research-based Years of educational research and technology development have gone into creating our powerful interactive system, making GoGo—your child’s private, in-home tutor—come to life! Too many kids are turned off to foreign language lessons by “drill and kill testing” and teaching styles that rely on rote memorization. Instead, we know that kids do better when working with a creative, friendly language educator who understands their specific strengths and weaknesses.

Age-appropriate Our Playful Immersion™ curriculum is specifically designed for three to seven-year-olds, taking full advantage of this important linguistic and cognitive developmental stage when absorption of language systems is effortless and natural. Research has found that past age eight, kids are less able to reach native-like fluency in a second language and as a result, often express reluctance or frustration when presented with the challenge.

Customized & Adaptive A lot of educational programs claim that they are customized and adaptive, but really aren’t if you dig deeper. Ours is, and on two levels:

Learn at your own pace: Our powerful, patent-pending technology makes GoGo not just a character in a game, but also a veteran teacher who can work with your child’s strengths and learning pace. He knows how to present the right words to your child at just the right time. He keeps track of your child’s responses to diagnose concepts that still need more practice, incorporates creative review to make sure that your student will “use it, not lose it,” and injects all that learning with fun!

Immersion when the time is right: Whether your child is already working on basic fluency in two languages, or has never been exposed to a foreign language, our technology instantly assesses and adjusts to your child’s level. Our kids get just the amount of translation help that they need to move ahead without getting frustrated. For example, when a child interested in learning Spanish starts to play, GoGo will initially give directions in100% English. Then, GoGo will increase the amount of Spanish until slowly, over time, and when your child is ready for it, GoGo will speak to your child 100% in Spanish.

Why is immersion the ultimate goal? What’s the problem with translation help? We want your child to be able to eventually think and speak the new language like a native speaker! Our games adapt and increase their pace as your child gets better, helping your child’s brain achieve “automaticity” in this new language. For example, if one of our English-speaking kids is studying Spanish and sees a photo of a cat, she will instantly, automatically say “gato” without having to go through the exercise of translating from English to Spanish in her head. Like a native Spanish-speaker, she will avoid the time delay of having to think, “That is a cat, and cat is gato in Spanish, so I’ll say ‘gato’.” By limiting the amount of direct translation, our games allow kids to connect words with images to confirm meaning. Our system unlocks your child’s natural language learning ability!

What do you mean when you say you’ll unlock my child’s “natural language learning ability?” Think back to when you learned your first language as a baby or toddler. You learned to speak fluently without anyone sitting you down and teaching you grammar or vocabulary. You simply used your five senses to observe the world around you. And then, naturally, you learned what things meant and what to say when. Similarly, your child will learn a second (and third and fourth!) language best in this natural way: learning exclusively in the new language without relying on translations or forced grammar instruction. We want your child to have fun absorbing a new language, to not feel intimidated or bored by the extra step of translations or explanations.