May 2, 2025
screaming, crying, throwing up etc. but Friends of Tonga just released a literacy app with both English and Tongan language books [see my laments about access to books in Tongan a few weeks back]. these are books that were being written and illustrated over a decade ago and being passed around our schools as photocopies of photocopies of photocopies.
cannot oversell what an incredible resource this is both for kids in Tonga and for the broader diaspora who often don't have the resources that make learning the language accessible. mirror books and not just window books.
The first reading apps built for the Kingdom of Tonga. Available in English and Tongan, Tau Laukonga ("Let's Read") is a force multiplier fo