What started as a simple idea has grown into a multilingual learning tool. It is free to use, with adverts helping to fund the work. I keep improving it, and I would love your feedback.
When I started learning English, my teacher told me to keep a rubrica: a notebook for new words, their translations, and regular revision. The method worked. The notebook did not — it stayed at home, it never told me what I had forgotten, and it never once tested me. Language In Use is that notebook, rebuilt for a phone.
BUILD YOUR OWN DICTIONARIES
Add words, sentences and idioms in any language pair, with translations, notes, gender, articles, verb tenses and pictures. Sort them into as many dictionaries as you like. Everything is kept on your device, so you can revise on a plane or underground, and it syncs with your account when you are back online.
PRACTISE WITH OVER 15 GAMES
Your own words become the questions: Flash Cards, Quiz, Listening, Hangman, Wordle, Word search, Crossword, Word wheel, Gender, Picture, Fill the gap, Sentence builder, Word builder and more. Verbs get their own Conjugation challenge across tenses.
LOOK UP, LISTEN, ASK
Search a word's meaning or a verb's full conjugation from the home page. Hear the pronunciation where audio is available. Ask the AI tutor when a rule refuses to sit still.
JOIN THE COMMUNITY
Chat with other learners one to one or in groups, and follow learning groups where members post questions, tips and news.
KEEP THE STREAK
Experience points, levels, daily streaks and practice-time statistics show your progress week by week, in the app and on the website.
Free to use with adverts. Optional in-app purchases top up lives, and an optional subscription removes the adverts for unlimited play. Your dictionaries stay yours either way.
The app speaks English, Italian, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese — and you can learn any language pair you like.
Ideas, bugs and feedback: languageinuse.com/contactus
Build your own dictionaries and practise them with over 15 word games