On Sunday we were back in the East End, giving Cockney lessons to visitors at the Roman Road Summer Festival. Our launch even made the news! As well as a feature on ITV London News on Thursday evening, our language expert Nat appeared on London Live with chairman Dick to talk about the app, and was interviewed with actor Patrick by Robert Elms on Friday morning for BBC Radio London (listen from 1 hour 40 mins onwards). It was a fantastic day – thank you to everyone who got involved. They had fun playing the games, and were keen to show our chairman Dick what they’d learnt.Īnd we finished with a good old-fashioned East End knees up, led by our Pearly King and Queen, pianist Mick Yarrow and the voice of uTalk Cockney, Patrick Mackervaie. Some children from Olga Primary School popped in to put the uTalk app to the test.
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The Pearly King and Queen learned how to use the app, and were impressed! In 2019, uTalk won the Threlford Cup for their work on the uTalk Junior Language Challenge.If you follow us on Facebook or Twitter, you’ll know that last week uTalk became the world’s first Cockney language learning app! The traditional East London rhyming slang was launched at G Kelly pie shop on the Roman Road by the Pearly King of Forest Gate and Pearly Queen of Old Kent Road.
It also raises money for the company's sister charity, onebillion, funding educational resources in Malawi. The goal of the competition is to encourage children to start learning languages at a young age. UTalk hosts an annual competition for children under 11 across Britain called the Junior Language Challenge. UTalk has won The Queen's Award for Innovation. Their content is also sold under the Instant Immersion brand in the US. The company's products are sold worldwide through their website and distributors 70% of their revenue comes from outside the UK. The company's range includes over 140 languages or dialects, including lesser-known languages such as Kinyarwanda, Chibemba, Greenlandic, Oromo and Cockney.
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UTalk's language software was originally available on CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and later as a USB and download. In 2016, EuroTalk rebranded as uTalk, and launched a new multi-platform app, also called uTalk. The company was established in 1991 by the company directors, Richard Howeson and Andrew Ashe.
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