Beloved Maltese-language app Nina u Ninu adds daily word game and more content in its fun ed-tech game for children aged 2-8

Children’s Maltese-language app Nina u Ninu celebrates its second anniversary this June with the addition of new features that parents will find essential for their young children to sharpen their Maltese word power.

The ad-free Nina u Ninu app provides engaging educational games to support Maltese vocabulary, literacy, numeracy and logic thanks to its playful user experience designed for children aged 2 to 8.

“We’re celebrating an important milestone with new content that underlines the success that Nina u Ninu has enjoyed over the past years,” said Francesca Borg Bellanti, CEO of Magic Games Factory, the developer of the app.

Borg Bellanti understood early on that there was a glaring gap in the digital landscape for Maltese-language learning games for young children.

“Nina u Ninu was born out of this simple, powerful need: to give my children meaningful, screen-based experiences in their own language,” Borg Bellanti said, who leads Magic Games Factory in the development of innovative ed-tech aimed at keeping languages alive.

Borg Bellanti is also aware of the current challenges that young children face in acquiring native Maltese-language skills.

“As any parent has learnt, we have switched to a world that is ‘always-on’ – kids have unlimited choices through content streamed to smart TVs, computers, tablets and smartphones. But we need to guide their development by harnessing this technology.

“Streaming platforms like Netflix offer easy language switches between English and Italian, but we lack high-quality, modern digital content in Maltese – a language that is central to our identity, and a fundamental requirement for educational attainment and job progression.”

To mark its second birthday, Magic Games Factory has announced new content designed for older children (5+), which include a daily “Il-Kelma tal-lum” (Word of the day), with audio and visual context to spark vocabulary growth; and a fun, interactive spelling game “Imla l-vojt” (Fill in the blank), designed to improve language skills in a playful way.

Nina u Ninu incurs just a one-time-only price that is a fraction of monthly streaming platform prices or other online game purchases, and can be downloaded from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

“Magic Games Factory is investing in building high-quality content that is relevant to Malta’s youngest learner,” Borg Bellanti said. “But parents will find the value of our meaningful, educational, and safe content priceless when they will see their kids power up their language skills.”

About Magic Games Factory

Run by a small, independent team of parents, educators, and creatives, Magic Games Factory was borne of one parent’s ultimate quest for educational screen-time for their child that had to be engaging, meaningful, and, of course, child-friendly.

Combining parenthood wisdom and business nous, Francesca Borg Bellanti founded Magic Games Factory to create games that are not only entertaining but secretly educational; teach children new languages while having fun; keep Ed-Tech apps ad-free with no uninvited adverts popping up.

Magic Games Factory is developing its groundbreaking white label to showcase innovation in language preservation through engaging experiences like Nina u Ninu and Parlini Land.

As seen in

MaltaToday Kids get more Maltese-language games with Nina u Ninu anniversary update

Times of Malta ‘Harness technology to give our kids better Maltese-language content’

Newsbook Give kids better apps to help them learn Maltese faster, says ed-tech CEO