Where Language Grows

A free language learning app. Start with your first letter. Learn your first 100 words by playing.

Get it on Google Play

If the alphabet is new to you

Learn a new alphabet by hand.

Learning Georgian, Russian, Arabic or Armenian? Trace each letter until your hand knows it. Two more letter games open as you go.

The alphabet scroll, with Georgian letters in coloured bubbles
The scrollTrace every letter.
Sorting: a Georgian letter in a bubble above two jars
SortingDrop each letter in its jar.
Transcribe: a Georgian word above two boxes, with the first letter typed in
TranscribeWrite your first real words.

Your first 100 words

Learn your first 100 words. A village grows with you.

Every language has its own small village. Each word you learn raises it a little more, from piles of rubble to a town with roofs on.

A paved town square with a well, lined with tiled houses
Pave the square.
A Portuguese village of red-tiled roofs inside a tall forest
Raise the town.
Coloured bubbles rise over the village under a card reading Congratulations, 100, You learned your first 100 words in Portuguese
Learn your first 100 words.

Seven vocabulary games teach you the words.

Matchy: five Portuguese words in one column and their English meanings in the other, ready to pair
MatchyPair words and meanings.
Word Search: a letter grid with found Portuguese words lit up, and leaves below carrying their English meanings
Word SearchTrace hidden words.
Crossword: a ring of six letters with a line traced through three of them, under a small grid being filled in
CrosswordSpell from a ring of letters.
Lamplight: a string of lamps over the English word shine, with the first three letters of the Portuguese word guessed
LamplightGuess before the lamps go out.
Word Blocks: a Portuguese sentence above English word tiles being arranged into its translation
Word BlocksBuild the translation.
Bubbles: numbered bubbles float under the Portuguese word for three
BubblesPop the right number.
Verbacid: the Portuguese verb cair with four verb forms to choose from, above a bubbling green cauldron
VerbacidPick the right verb form.

Languages you can learn

With a new alphabet to trace

Coming soon

Learn from English or from Portuguese. More languages are on the way.

Learn from what you already watch and read.

Tools for everywhere else the language shows up.

Translator

Type or speak in one language and read it in another. Keep any word you want.

The translator, with Thank you translated into Kyrgyz

Browser extension

Tap a word in the subtitles while you watch, and keep it.

  • Netflix
  • YouTube
  • Angel
  • More apps being added
See how the extension works

Reader

Read a story or paste any text. Tap a word to see what it means and keep it.

The story shelf, with short reads by level
A story in the Reader, with one word tapped and its meaning shown

Moo Yap

Chat with people in their language.

Start with one letter.

Get it on Google Play