Casaluz.In development · iPhone and Android
Your child learns Spanish. Then learns to read it.
Mexican Spanish for children from two to six — 592 words taught by ear and picture, then the alphabet taught the way Mexico actually teaches it. No account, no server, nothing collected.
One email when it ships — that's the whole mailing list. Or write to casaluz@fiskllc.com.
Two tracks, one app
Knowing the words and reading them are different skills.
A Spanish-speaking four-year-old knows thousands of words and can read none of them. An adult can sound out perro and have no idea what it means. Casaluz teaches both, in the order they actually happen.
First, the words — by ear.
Nothing to read. A picture, a voice, and a tap. It works from about two, and it never asks a child to recognise a letter before they're ready.
Not just nouns. Phrases a child actually says — más, ya no, me toca. Opposites, position words, counting, colours, shapes. And the words no picture can carry — y, también, todos, siempre — taught inside spoken sentences, because that's how every child learns them.
perro
Listen, then tap the picture
Then the letters — in the Mexican order.
Not A, B, C. Spanish is taught by the método silábico: the five vowels first, then M, P, S, L, T — because with those a child reads mamá in the second lesson. Alphabetical order puts M at position thirteen.
And the syllable, not the letter name. A child told that B is called be will read bebé as "be-e-be-e". Every consonant lesson blends: mmm… aaa… ¡ma!
M
ma me mi mo mu
Now I can say mamá
And lessons that finish.
Short, numbered lessons with a goal you can state: say hello and tell someone your name. Describe yourself. Ask for what you want. Each one ends with something your child can actually say out loud.
With their own name in it. Tell the app what your child is called and lesson one says Me llamo Sofía — in the same voice as everything else.
Me llamo Sofía
Say it out loud → ⭐
Itemized
Everything a first Spanish should carry.
| 592 × | Words in Mexican Spanish — carro, jitomate, elote, papa, chamarra, catarina, papalote. Not a neutral Latin American blend |
| 125 × | Original illustrations, including the words no emoji exists for — piñata, mole, mariachi, alebrije, papel picado, molcajete, nopal |
| 28 × | Letter lessons in método silábico order, each with its sound, its syllable table, and the first real word it unlocks |
| 36 × | Phrases a small child actually uses, from más to me toca to ¿me ayudas? |
| 14 × | Function words — y, o, no, pero, también, todos, siempre, nunca — taught inside sentences the child answers by tapping |
| 15 × | Ways to play: picture match, listening, say-it-aloud, memory pairs, odd-one-out, phrases, opposites, position, counting, sentences, ordering, clapping syllables, rhymes, first sounds, shapes |
| 738 × | Spoken clips recorded into the app, so every word sounds the same on every phone — and works with no signal |
| 0 × | Accounts, ads, subscriptions, analytics, or bytes sent anywhere |
The order
Why it isn't A, B, C.
Alphabetical order is an English habit. Spanish is nearly phonetic, so a child doesn't need 27 letters before reading — they need five vowels and one consonant.
B and V are one lesson, because in Spanish they are one sound. So are LL and Y. Ge and gi are taught with J, and ce and ci with Z — because that's where the spelling mistakes come from.
Try it before it ships
A few words, right here.
Tap to hear them. The app works the same way — picture, voice, tap.
These use your device's Spanish voice. The app ships with every word recorded, so it sounds the same on every phone.
The claim, checkable
A children's app that collects nothing.
There is no server, no account and no analytics — so there is no path for anything to leave. Every word, picture and sound lives inside the app.
Not a promise — a consequence of the architecture. Your child's name, if you enter one, stays on the device and is used for one thing: so lesson one says their name back to them.
Why this exists
I have two small children and wanted them to have Spanish — not a language they'd study at fourteen, but one they'd have.
Everything I tried was either a game with Spanish sprinkled on it, or a course written for adults and shrunk. And none of them taught reading the way it's taught in Mexico, which is the part that surprised me: Spanish decodes in weeks, not years, because the letters mean what they say. English children spend years on phonics because English earns it. Spanish doesn't.
So this is the app I wanted for them. Mexican Spanish, not a neutral blend. Every word checked by hand. Nothing that phones home, because a four-year-old can't consent to anything.
— the founder, Fisk LLC
Coming to iPhone and Android.
One email when it ships. That's the whole mailing list.
No account, no cloud, no subscription.