Kiara through the eyes of a bilingualism specialist: a review by Bilingual House

Dr Aneta Długosz Nott-Bower runs Bilingual House, a language support consultancy for bilingual families, especially those keeping Polish alive abroad. In autumn 2026 she tested Kiara in Polish and English and sent us a detailed review: appreciative, and with concrete suggestions.

With her permission we publish excerpts from the review (translated from Polish) and explain what we changed in response.

What she liked

Excerpts from the review Dr Nott-Bower sent us on 27 October 2026:

I view the concept itself very positively. It is an interesting way to support children’s language development through contact with a story in two languages.

A great strength of the stories is their rich language. This is especially important in materials for bilingual children, because it lets them discover new vocabulary and a variety of structures in a natural context.

“Kiara” has great potential as a tool supporting the language development of bilingual children.

What we changed

In English, the parents are now consistently “Mom and Dad” in every story, instead of a mix of “mama” and “daddy”.

In the Polish version of the first story we reworded phrases that did not sound natural, for example “do parku na zabawę” became “do parku pobawić się”.

The stories are read by a synthetic voice. Dr Nott-Bower noticed that the name Kiara was sometimes pronounced with an “e” instead of an “a”. We added the right pronunciation to our pronunciation dictionary and re-recorded every Polish page where the name occurs.

New games

Dr Nott-Bower suggested games that bring children back to the story: putting events in order, completing sentences, guessing from a description, or spotting what changed in a picture. All of them are on our list.

The first new game is already in the app: the child hears a word in the language they are learning and finds that object in the picture. While a page is read aloud, the sentence being spoken is also highlighted in yellow. Dr Nott-Bower found both helpful.

About Bilingual House

Bilingual House is Dr Aneta Długosz Nott-Bower’s language support consultancy for families raising children in two languages. You can read more about her work here: