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VầnTots

First steps in Vietnamese reading. Join a sound and a rhyme (bờ + a → ba), hear the six tones on one word (ma, mà, má, mả, mã, mạ) with a line showing how the voice moves, and build cá, gà or nhà one piece at a time. Spoken aloud in Vietnamese, big buttons, no score, no account. Ages 3-5.

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Built for sittings of about 10 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.

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Meet your mentor

Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning.

Mentored by Bà Tư

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Live English Language Arts / CCSS RF.K.2.C - blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words (applied in Vietnamese) English Language Arts / CCSS RF.K.3 - know and apply grade-level phonics in decoding words (Vietnamese onset + rhyme + tone) Hero color: #A3175F
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Characters who teach

Meet the cast

VầnTots' friends each do one thing with a Vietnamese word. Tí joins an opening sound to a rhyme. Mây draws each tone as a line across the sky, so you can see the voice go up or down. Sóc says every piece out loud, the way it is spelled in class. Bà Tư (the mentor) asks which word the pieces make.

Tí portrait

Tí

joins an opening sound to a rhyme: bờ and a make ba

Mây portrait

Mây

A young Vietnamese girl with a crayon who draws each of the six tones as a line across the sky, so you can see the voice go up or down

Sóc portrait

Sóc

A lively girl in an orange vest (her nickname means squirrel) who says every piece out loud the classroom way: bờ, a, ba, huyền, bà

Bà Tư portrait

Bà Tư

asks which word the sound, the rhyme and the tone make together

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Learning goal

First steps in Vietnamese reading. Join a sound and a rhyme (bờ + a → ba), hear the six tones on one word (ma, mà, má, mả, mã, mạ) with a line showing how the voice moves, and build cá, gà or nhà one piece at a time. Spoken aloud in Vietnamese, big buttons, no score, no account. Ages 3-5.

Mentored by Bà Tư — no data leaves the device.

How VầnTots handles your kid's data

  • ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
  • ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
  • ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
  • ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
  • ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages

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