pikingli for PC

The pikingli app, allows you to “Find child-like joy”, using tools such as icons, spaced repetition, self-challenges, and competition to stimulate your brain to learn in a visual way, sparking your curiosity and your imagination combined with play and challenges with others who are in the learning process or simply playing just for fun.

Our minimalistic e-learning components, are key elements in the learning process and have proven to keep learners engaged. Motivation has been consistently tied to language learning success and you will find that the pikingli app is pretty effective at keeping users engaged, whether you want to use it to play and have a good time, or learn and re-affirm the pillars of a second language or… truly both at the same time.

Why is our app user interface design so minimal?

Human memory is responsible for processing data in every interaction we face in the real world. There are two types of memory: working memory and long-term memory. The working memory can be thought of as a temporary workspace allowing us to manipulate information while carrying out tasks such as reading.

Information from our working memories can potentially be transferred to our long-term memories. But, it’s estimated that on average a person can only keep 7 (plus or minus 2) items in their working memory. Cognitive overload happens when working memory receives an excessive amount of information. This interferes with the learning process because the working memory cannot process all this data.

Our simple yet effective interface allows learners to capture only the essential information we are aiming for them to learn

Why we use Icons:
Images remove the need of translating from the native language to the target language. You have most likely heard the adage, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Still, a lot of language learning tools are created the other way around: with a thousand words and a couple of pictures.

Icons are a great way to bring essential content to the point it is intended to make. Besides, they help learners associate them effectively with words they know in their native language, and are great at motivating them to pay attention to the information they need to remember. Studies conducted found that visuals processed 60,000 times faster than text. With this in mind, the icon acts as an object within the learning activities that can expedite the process.

Icons are generally easier to recall than words because they draw on visual and verbal memory, rather than just auditory memory. Also, our brains are largely wired to be receptive to visual stimuli. Therefore, icons and other images are the preferred languages of the brain.

Why we use spaced repetition:
To learn a brand-new language, it’s important to practice the same concept multiple times. Much like completing multiple reps to strengthen your muscles, consistent repetition helps solidify the new knowledge in your brain so that you can use it in the future. This holds true whether you’re learning new vocabulary, verb conjugations, grammar rules, phrases, and more!

The pikingli app uses fun and learn lessons, word activities, daily quizzes, and a self-challenge mode to help you discover new vocabulary and sentence structures, then via challenges and competitions with friends puts your knowledge to the test. The app offers several opportunities for repetition. Keep in mind that in order to help your brain remember new words, you must see and use that word at least 16 different times. That means that you must encounter that word many times in different ways before your brain can remember the word automatically.