What is it?
Alphabets of the World lets children and adults explore how the world writes. Pick an Alphabet (Spanish, French, German, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Urdu, Hebrew, Bengali, Tamil, Hindi, Japanese, Korean or Chinese pinyin), tap letters and hear them.
Who is it for?
Curious children, students preparing to travel or study abroad, language beginners, and teachers running “languages of the world” lessons.
How to use it
- Choose an Alphabet.
- Tap a letter to see it bigger and hear it (🔊 Hear it).
- Try the quiz and Play again.
Fun facts for lessons
- Korean Hangul was designed by a king in 1443 to be easy to learn.
- Japanese uses three scripts together: hiragana, katakana and kanji.
- Pinyin writes Chinese sounds in Latin letters; Chinese itself uses characters.
For parents and teachers
Short sessions work best: 5–10 minutes a day, then something active. Sit with young children, say the answers aloud together, and praise effort, not just right answers. Everything runs on the device with no sign-up, no chat and no data collected about your child.
Errors and how to fix them
- No sound when tapping 🔊: turn up the volume, switch off silent mode (on iPhone, the side switch), and check the browser tab isn’t muted. Sounds use your device’s built-in voices.
- Wrong or no voice for Hindi, Punjabi or another language: install the voice on the device. Android: Settings → search “Text-to-speech” → Speech Services by Google → install voice data. Windows: Settings → Time & language → Speech → Add voices. iPhone: Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices.
- Arabic, Urdu or Hebrew look reversed: they’re written right to left; that’s correct.
- Some letters show boxes: the device lacks fonts for that script; update it.
Open the tool: Alphabets of the World
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