MindSnacks Turns Learning a Language Into a Game

MindSnacks are language-learning games for your brains.

Memorizing flash cards and reading from a textbook aren’t just ineffective ways to learn a new language – they’re also, well, really boring.

So to make learning a new language as much fun and as effective as possible, Jesse Pickard and two of his colleagues launched MindSnacks – an educational app that uses games to teach essential vocabulary, reading, writing, listening and conversation skills in 13 different languages.

Each language app has six interactive games, 50 levels to complete and more than 1400 words to master. Every level features up to 25 words and phrases with pictures and matching audio clips from native speakers. To reach a new level, users have to complete fun challenges and unlock new games.

One game, “Fish Tank,” gives users a time limit to match words with their accurate translations. If a player doesn’t choose the correct translation in the given time, a swimming fish falls to the bottom of the screen and dies.