Mia's Language Adventure is designed to provide practice and develop retention of basic phonetic skills, vocabulary knowledge, and grammar skills of young children who are involved in starting to learn either French or Spanish. (You choose which language when you start)

Mia is an adventure story where you have to help Mia the Mouse go about sleuthing for clues after an engaging story opener where her Grandmother has been kipnapped and your assistance is needed.

As you are collecting clues, Mia encounters very interesting interactive games that will test the player in a variety of vocabulary, spelling and sentence construction skills and knowledge. The player knows that successful completion of the exercise will allow them to advance in unraveling the mystery.

The first exercise (the exercises, by the way, are the same for both languages) is a test of your word recognition and spelling skills. You are presented with a picture and hear the word said. There are a variety of letters floating around the screen. You catch the right letters using your mouse and place them in position at the bottom of the screen(Click Here). As you catch each letter your will hear them pronounced so you are simultaneously learning the pronunciation of the letters and the word as well as testing your spelling skills. There is no time limit and no pass/fail. Just keep working on it until you get it right.

The adventure is a lengthy one that can take child anywhere from 5 -10 hours to complete. Within this adventure path there are 15 different learning/skill developing games. It has been found that for the kids who have completed the program, some will want to do the whole adventure again and others want to return to specific game activities that test their skills.

If a child wants to play the learning games again, there is the option of going straight to the desired learning activity and bypassing the adventure part of the program. Many of the exercise/games will present new questions when they return to a specific activity a second or third time.

The program, as well as offering the same learning experience for both french and spanish, has 3 levels of difficulty - beginner, intermediate and advanced - that can be selected by the user (or the teacher).

In a school, Mia can be licensed and placed on a network which will then allow up to 4 players per computer to save their progress in the program. So if you have a school lab with 8 computers available to a class of 30 kids, you could use the program and have each child's progress bookmarked and saved.