Learn a language in lessons short enough to actually finish.
Four minutes at a time, with pictures instead of translations, every word spoken aloud — and grammar explained in terms of the language you already speak.
New Live 1v1 word gamesFree. Twenty courses. Try your first lesson without an account.
What makes it different
Grammar explained in your own language.
Most apps write one explanation and translate it into forty languages. That is how a Russian speaker ends up reading a sentence about English. Wordaboo writes a different explanation for every pair, because the thing that confuses you depends entirely on what you already speak.
French keeps the little word in front — le chat, la table — and it changes with the noun, not with you.
Written for somebody whose language has one “the”.
English puts a word before almost every noun — a cat, the table — where Russian puts nothing at all.
The opposite problem, so it gets the opposite explanation.
New Play 1v1
Learn the words, then race somebody with them.
Live word games against a friend or anyone at all. Whatever they are learning, you each answer in the language you are learning, at your own level: ten quick rounds, and every fast right answer pulls the rope your way.
Which word is this?
You won!
510 – 330
Rematch
- Three gamesPicture Rush, Sound Rush and True or False. Tick as many as you like, or play face to face on one phone with Premium.
- Combos and a double finalRight answers in a row build a combo, and the last question counts double, so nothing is settled until the end.
- Rematch in one tapLost by a whisker? Ask the same player for another round, friend or not.
- Challenges find youA friend’s challenge drops in wherever you are in the app, or arrives as a notification.
- A weekly leagueThree points a win, one a draw. Every Monday the top three win a trophy for their card.
- Never an empty lobbyNobody searching right now? Race a real player’s recorded match, answer for answer.
Better together
A streak is easier to keep when somebody is keeping it with you.
Add friends by username or code, keep a streak going together, and climb a weekly league. Finish a lesson and watch yourself overtake somebody.
- Shared streaks: practise on the same day, and the streak belongs to both of you.
- Weekly leagues of up to twenty learners, where every lesson you finish counts.
- No chat and no messages, just a username you choose. Friends stays off until you switch it on.
You260Twenty courses
A separate course for every pair.
Every course is written for its own pair of languages, which is also why they cannot simply be machine-translated into new ones. The whole interface follows your language too, not just the lessons.
Built to be honest
A language app that isn’t trying to farm you.
Chapters are mapped to the A1–B2 scale schools use, so you can see what you have covered and what comes next. The levels describe what a chapter teaches. They are not a certificate, and we never pretend otherwise.
- Delete your account from inside the app, with 14 days to change your mind.
- Speaking exercises are optional, and so is the microphone.
- No third-party analytics and no crash-reporting SDK in the app.
- Friends is off until you switch it on, and there is no messaging anywhere in the app.
- Your progress lives in your account, and signing out clears it off the device.
Premium is optional: no ads, unlimited hearts and bubbles, and lessons you can take offline. The courses themselves are free.
Four minutes. Start today.
Free on Android and iPhone.