Kantana, Qooco launch language-learning app

The Qooco Talk app is equipped with a speech-recognition feature and a cloud-based system where both teachers and students can monitor their progress. The progress reports are available in both PDF and Excel files. 
Qooco claims the lessons are developed by experts who truly understand the way people learn to speak a foreign language. Also, the lessons are organised and ordered by difficulty for each student. Students are given points at the end of each lesson, which will strengthen their confidence and encourage them to learn, it says.
Kantana Group chief executive officer Jareuk Kaljareuk said this new education technology brought by Kantana Edutainment International would be supportive for Thai society as a whole at a time when the government was transforming the country into “Thailand 4.0”, or an era of digital economy. Therefore, it is important for Thais to improve their speaking skills, especially in English and in Mandarin, so that they are more able to compete in the market. 
“The Qooco Talk application answers our needs in this aspect because it has been accepted by multiple countries around the world,” he said. 

Improvement 
He said 1,000 students in Chiang Rai municipal schools who had used Qooco for four months and had improved their English skills by 62 per cent on average. 
Qooco CEO David Topolewski said Thais were using 38 million mobile devices including smartphones and tablets, or 70 per cent of the population who can access the Internet. Such numbers suggest that people are more likely to use smartphones than desktop computers. 
Meanwhile, it is expected that by the end of this year, smartphone usage will be greatly increased, with 50 million of the devices in use. 
Therefore, Topolewski said language learning was not the responsibility of an individual any more but of the nation as a whole. There needs to be a tool that can accommodate each individual’s need. This edtech tool would be a key platform to fulfil that need.