Letter Pals is a new game on our free play page: every letter is a little character with a face and a voice, and your child gets to know each one by meeting it, tracing it and playing with it. It covers four alphabets — English, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese — and it is completely free in the browser.
Play it now
Open Letter Pals — no sign-up, no download. Tap once to turn the sound on.
Four alphabets, one friendly game
- English ABC — letter names and phonics sounds, with a first word for every letter.
- Tiếng Việt — the Vietnamese letters plus the tone marks that change a word's meaning.
- 한국어 (hangul) — consonants and vowels, then building 가나다 syllable blocks.
- 日本語 (hiragana · katakana) — with dakuten (が, ざ, だ …) and handakuten (ぱ …).
The language of the instructions is separate from the alphabet being learned, so a bilingual family can, for example, learn hangul with English voice prompts — or the English ABC with Vietnamese ones.
How one letter works
- Meet — the letter pal says its name, its sound and a word that starts with it.
- Trace — follow the strokes in the right order with a finger, stylus or mouse.
- Play — a short mini-game: Letter Pop, Feed the Pal, Find it, Write it or Build.
- Reward — a sticker of the word goes into the sticker book.
Short, repeated loops like this match how letters are best introduced: one at a time, with the sound, the shape and a real word together. Our guide on how to introduce letter sounds explains why that order works.
Word Town and the sticker book
Every sticker belongs somewhere in Word Town — 8 everyday places (home, kitchen, body and clothes, people, animals, the park, the street, colors and shapes) with 120 first words in each of the four languages. Placing stickers is a gentle way to review words a child has already met, and to hear them again in another language.
Free, with nothing to unlock
On the web, Letter Pals is 100% free: all four alphabets, every letter and every Word Town place are open from the first visit. There is no account to create, nothing to buy and no ads in the game area. Progress is saved in the browser on that device.
How to use it alongside phonics practice
A game works best as a short, cheerful part of a routine — not a replacement for reading together. Try one or two letters a day inside our 5-minute daily phonics routine. If your child is learning English as a second language, the tips in phonics for ESL kids pair well with the English ABC track, and our comparison of phonics apps explains what to look for in any learning game.
More free games
When your child knows a few letters, try Sound Match and Letter Trace — or browse every game on the play page.