How Digital Learning Start-Up Limu Lab Aims To Make Learning African Languages Easy And Exciting
How Digital Learning Start-Up Limu Lab Aims To Make Learning African Languages Easy And Exciting. Limu Lab provides an innovative digital learning platform that brings to life the possibilities of learning indigenous African languages from all over the continent. The company’s mission is to promote a love for indigenous languages and culture through storytelling, gamification and music.
The platform features live action with animated elements collaboratively crafted in a variety of formats for the purposes of inspired learning. Limu’ is derived from the Nguni and Swahili word for ‘tongue’. It symbolises the mother tongue in line with the passion to encourage the love and learning of African home languages.
The company consists of passionate educators, media and content development specialists, tech enthusiasts. Its vision is to offer a stimulating and fun African language learning experience. It develops technology and media driven solutions to learning African languages. Limu Lab does this because it believes in creating opportunities for children to interact and experience African languages through new technology. It wants to see children having fun with African Languages by enjoying stories, singing along and dancing with the Limu Family.
Its clients can register for more than 1 language at a cost of R50 per language, per month. It has an option for a family account, when making the purchase clients can select “Group” account, they can also add a new language at any time. The new language will be billed as a new product and billed according to the date of purchase. Limu Lab allows clients to pay in any currency. Its billing system will automatically convert the payment to Limu Lab’s local currency, which is South African Rands.
Limu Lab is an offering that works for individuals and for schools. It is an excellent tool to complement the classroom curriculum for foundation phase learning. Educators will be able to seamlessly incorporate the platform content as a blended learning tool. They will be able to allocate specific tasks to their classes, while also tracking learner progress on an easy-to-use learner management dashboard.
