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KLettres

educational program that helps the user learn the alphabet as well as pronunciation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ4041992
Source-derived summary

KLettres is an educational program that helps the users learn the alphabet as well as pronunciation. It is free and open source software, licensed under the terms of the GPL. The software is part of the KDE Education Project, and is meant to teach very young children aged 2 to 6 years the alphabet. There are currently 4 levels in the game and supports 25 different languages.

Levels

KLettres features four levels, with settings for adult ("grown up") and children ("kid").

In level 1, the letter is displayed and the user hears it.

In level 2, the letter is not displayed and the user only hears it.

In level 3, the syllable is displayed and the user hears it.

In level 4, the syllable is not displayed and the user only hears it.

Languages supported

Arabic, Czech, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, British English, English, English Phonix, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Kannada, Hebrew, Hindi Romanized, Low Saxon, Luganda, Malayalam, Norwegian Bokmål, Punjabi, Spanish, Slovak, Ukrainian and Telugu.

Release history

May 13, 2004: v1.3, added Italian and special characters.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “KLettres” as educational program that helps the user learn the alphabet as well as pronunciation. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where KLettres, educational and program can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as educational program that helps the user learn the alphabet as well as pronunciation. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q4041992. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “KLettres”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow KLettres primary sources, KLettres archive and KLettres research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “KLettres”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. Which cited source is closest to the event, object or claim?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from KLettres” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.