South African languages for children
Children learn most easily in the language they already think in. Mzansi Academy Kids teaches South African home languages one at a time, with real vocabulary and cultural context — and only content a fluent speaker has approved.
Every language is included in the same subscription. Switching or adding one costs nothing.
Available now
Setswana
Available nowVocabulary, greetings, counting and cultural context, every word approved by a fluent speaker, with spaced-repetition review.
Being reviewed
isiZulu
Being reviewedThe first words are written and waiting for a native speaker to check them. Children see none of it until they do.
Next
Sepedi
NextNext after isiZulu.
Planned
Xitsonga
PlannedPlanned.
Tshivenda(Tshivenḓa)
PlannedPlanned.
isiXhosa
PlannedPlanned.
Afrikaans
PlannedPlanned.
siSwati
PlannedPlanned.
isiNdebele
PlannedPlanned.
South African Sign Language
PlannedPlanned. Signing needs video rather than written words, so it comes once the app can show it properly.
Why one language at a time
A word list translated by a machine is easy to produce and often wrong — and a child cannot tell. So nothing in a language reaches a child until a person fluent in it has checked the word, its meaning and how it sounds, and every approval is recorded under that person's name. A language goes live when there is enough approved content to teach it properly, not before.
Read more in Why home language comes first.
Waiting for your language?
Join early access and tell us which language your family speaks — demand sets the order after isiZulu and Sepedi. If you speak isiZulu fluently and would review words for children, email info@mzansiacademykids.app.