Monkey Stories:Books & Reading

Comprehensive English learning program for preschool and primary school children

Monkey Stories: Fun English Learning App for Kids

"Monkey Stories: Books & Reading" is an English language learning app designed for children aged 2-10, focusing on listening, speaking, reading, and writing. With over 1,100 interactive stories, 430+ audiobooks, and a phonics program, it immerses children in English while promoting accurate pronunciation and comprehension. The app also features a user-friendly interface, voice recognition, and printable worksheets, ensuring effective language learning without straining young eyes.
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Version: 3.9.25 (Last updated: 2024-11-26)
Creation date: 2017-09-14
Permissions
Phone: read phone status and identity
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Camera: take pictures and videos
Microphone: record audio
Wi-Fi connection information: view Wi-Fi connections
Device ID & call information: read phone status and identity
Other:
  • receive data from Internet
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • run at startup
  • control vibration
  • prevent device from sleeping
  • set an alarm
  • read Google service configuration

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App summary

Monkey Stories is an English language learning program which aims at helping children be fluent in English before the age of 10 (suitable for children of 2 - 10 years of age).

I. Achievements

Monkey Stories has won many prestigious awards and achievements, leading the way in English learning apps for children.
#1 most downloaded English learning app for kids.
More than 10 million users worldwide.
Users in 108 countries, including English-speaking countries such as the US, UK, Australia and Canada.
Monkey Stories is also developed by the founder of Monkey Junior, the application won the First Prize in the Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Tech-I Competition chaired by US President Barack Obama.

II. Introduction to Monkey Stories app

1. Targeted users
Monkey Stories is most suitable for children aged 2-10 which helps children develop the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing.

2. Objectives
Listening: Fully recognize and understand language heard when communicating with native speakers
Speaking: Standard American English pronunciation and intonation
Reading: Improve your children's reading comprehension and make reading more fun and fulfilling
Writing: Develop accurate writing style, logical flow, word usage, and expression like a native user

3. Why Monkey Stories?
Millions of parents in the world have trusted Monkey Stories for the following reasons:

3.1. Help children to immerse themselves in English at home
Access to over 430 audiobooks divided into four levels, diverse genres with selective and educational content.
Access to standardized English voices with diverse features, such as: listening with a timer, audiobooks playing on screensaver, subtitles with each word highlighted in time with the vocal recording,...

3.2. Master accurate American English pronunciation
Monkey Stories applies Synthetic Phonics - the famous synthetic decoding and blending method used by the Ministry of Education of English-speaking countries around the world. This method helps children to spell words easily, read fluently, write with correct spelling, and boost confidence when communicating in English.

3.3. Broaden social knowledge as well as vocabulary that is often used in everyday life
The diverse words in Monkey Stories are used to cover many different topics, providing children with a rich and large vocabulary. This is a foundation which children can use to understand and use English flexibly and correctly.

3.4. Learn all four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing
With just a single application, children can practice all 4 skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing effectively thanks to more than 1,100+ interactive picture stories, 430+ audiobooks, 119 reading comprehension exercises and 243 phonics lessons, ...

3.5. Monkey Stories does not affect children’s health
With appropriate learning time and fantastic features like listening with a timer and audiobooks playing on screensaver, kids can learn effectively and minimize the negative impacts on their eyesight, which parents are still worried about when letting their children use applications.

III. Features
Outstanding features of Monkey Stories:

High interactivity
Accurate pronunciation evaluation using voice recognition (AI).
Effective story classification system by level and topic.
Subtitles with each word highlighted in time with the vocal recording.
Post-story activities with attractive graphics.
Weekly updated content.
Printable PDF worksheets for children to practice after reading stories or other lessons.

IV. Support
Email: [email protected]
Terms of Use: https://www.monkeyenglish.net/en/terms-of-use
Privacy Policy: https://www.monkeyenglish.net/en/policy

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Good story books for kids
  • Interactive and intuitive for children to learn English
  • Good customer service helping with issues
Cons
  • Recurring subscription issues (being prompted to subscribe again despite having an active subscription)
  • App stability problems (stopping completely, getting stuck on lessons, or loading issues)
  • Poor communication and support (inability to resolve issues or language barriers in customer support)
Most mentioned
  • Subscription problems (unable to access content despite payment)
  • App instability (gets stuck or crashes)
  • Poor customer service and lack of support
User reviews
No one to contact and it stopped working after few days
by Siddhartha Dantuluri, 2024-09-25

Very good 💯 story books for kids 😁
by Dolly Supriya, 2024-09-19

I am very dissapointed with the app keep poping up to subscribe. But I have subscribe this monkey story for lifetime few days ago. It should be work but until now we are not allowed to continue to finish up the story. Keep appearing for us to subscribe. Pls fix it for me.
by Sakinah naim, 2024-07-12
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