Polyglotto is a concept born from a research about children growing in multicultural environment. Children have the big opportunity to learn from each other about language and culture, but often, since they are are immersed very young in this environment, they are not aware of it.
Through this project we want to promote cultural exchanges through playful dialogues. Language diversity, instead of being an obstacle in a conversation, became the enabler for a playful cultural exchange. Polyglotto is a word guessing game that support children in sharing their native language using their natural attitude in communicate through body gesture.
Normally word guessing games are played with “cards upside down”, not to reveal to the others what they have to guess. In this case, playing with the fact that people speak different languages, the words are not a secret. Our tool will say loud a word (let’s say a Swedish word) that everybody can hear, the ones that understand the word (in Swedish) will act out for the others, to help them guess.
The main purpose of the game is not learning another language (even if that can happen) but mainly rise awareness of different languages and cultures.