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Maglaro.
Matuto ng
Tagalog.

Ten word games in one komiks barangay. Kick a sipa by the syllable, ride the right jeepney, slice UM into a fruit-stand word, paint baybayin on the mural wall. Every word is spoken aloud. Nothing about your child leaves the device.

Download on the App Store Free · iPhone & iPad · Ages 4+
The Salitaan map: a komiks barangay with ten places to play, from the plaza at the top to the river at the bottom 10 laro!

Sampung laro, isang barangay

Each game is a place in the neighborhood, and each one is built on how Tagalog actually works: syllables, not letters. Affixes you slide into a word. Verb forms you steer a jeepney by.

A rubber tsinelas Tumbang Tsinelas

Hear the word, knock its can down with a slipper. In the barangay, the mall and the city.

A kid mid-kick Sipa Syllables

Kick the sipa into the syllable bubbles, in order: pa, pa, ya.

A woven market basket Sari-Sari Store

The suki asks in Tagalog. Swipe along the shelves, fill the basket, hand it over.

A yellow jeepney Jeepney Rush

Kumain, kumakain, kakain. Put the kid on the jeepney whose sign says kahapon, ngayon or bukas.

A ripe mango Singit!

Slice the fruit-stand word open right where UM, IN, MAG or MA squeezes in.

A kalabasa squash Bahay Kubo Garden

Plant the song, one vegetable at a time. Singkamas at talong, sigarilyas at mani.

Lola in her chair Bugtong of the Day

Lola reads a new riddle every day on the porch. Pick the answer from three picture cards.

A star parol lantern Parol

Hear the word, drag through its letters on the star lantern. Every word lights a ray.

A paint brush Baybayin Brush

Paint each syllable in the old Filipino script on the mural wall.

A cartoon aswang Aswang Night

Hear the word, then bonk the creature carrying its picture with a bawang before it reaches the gate.

Singit!: a fruit-stand word about to be sliced open for its affix
Singit! at the fruit stand
Jeepney Rush: three jeepneys with kahapon, ngayon and bukas signs
Jeepney Rush at the terminal
Bugtong of the Day: Lola on the porch with three picture cards
Bugtong with Lola
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Every word, spoken

Every word, every customer and every riddle is said aloud in Filipino, with stress checked against the dictionary. Kids hear it, see the picture, and split it into syllables.

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Stars on the map

Up to three stars at every place. Beat your best and the whole barangay cheers. Thirty stars fills the map.

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Salitaan, the collection

Every word a child meets goes into their collection with its picture, its syllables and its sound. Turn on the 5 PM reminder and Lola's riddle arrives every day.

Para sa mga magulang

The short version of how Salitaan treats your child.

Free

All ten games are free to play. Nothing is locked, nothing is timed, nothing is sold to the child.

On the device

No accounts, no sign-in, no chat, no links out. Progress and the word collection stay on your phone.

Ads, quietly

A short ad appears only between rounds, never during play, and is never personalized. The app never asks to track.

Buong Barangay

One purchase turns the ads off for good, for the whole family through Family Sharing. It sits behind a parental gate. ₱149 in the Philippines, US $3.99 elsewhere.

Tagalog or English

The interface switches between Tagalog and English from the profile. The words are always Tagalog.

iPhone and iPad

Made for both, with wide scenes drawn for the iPad. Rated 4+.

Made by Kanto Projects for kids in the Philippines, and every kid growing up with Tagalog far from home.

Libre. I-download na.

Salitaan is free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.

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