Keep Lithuanian alive at home

Dino mokyklėlė is a collection of 78 educational games for children aged 3–7 — and every word, every letter and every spoken instruction in it is Lithuanian. If you are raising a Lithuanian-speaking child outside Lithuania, that is not a limitation to work around. It is the whole point.

An app where Lithuanian is the language, not a setting

Most "learn the alphabet" apps stop at 26 letters. Lithuanian has 32, and the nine that make it Lithuanian — ą, č, ę, ė, į, š, ų, ū, ž — are exactly the ones a child abroad hears least. Here they are everywhere: in the alphabet games, in the syllable train that builds BA + TAS into BATAS, in the words a friendly dinosaur reads aloud in clear Lithuanian. A child who cannot read yet can still play everything, because every task is spoken.

The games cover letters and reading, numbers, shapes and colours, logic puzzles, nature, music and the everyday world — 8 categories, with nearly 400 difficulty levels between them, so the same games grow with a child from three to seven. 18 games are free to try.

Made for the way families abroad actually live

• Works fully offline. Long flights to visit grandparents, roaming-free holidays, a summer at a countryside sodyba — once installed, the app needs no internet at all.
• No ads, ever. Nothing interrupts play and nothing leads a child out of the app.
• No data collection. The app has no accounts and gathers nothing; everything a child does stays on the device.
• Little and often. A built-in play timer, protected by a parent code, lets you set how long a session lasts — the dinosaur himself says when it is time to stop.

For Lithuanian heritage schools

Weekend lituanistinės mokyklos do with two hours a week what an environment does all day, and we would like to help. If you teach at a Lithuanian heritage school anywhere in the world, write to labas@dinomoki.com about free institutional access for your classroom.

When and where

Dino mokyklėlė is currently in closed testing, with launch on Google Play planned for September. It is built by one person — Andrius Labunskas, who draws, codes and voices all of it. The main site is in Lithuanian at dinomoki.com/lt; questions in English are very welcome at labas@dinomoki.com.