Wordaboo: Learn Languages

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About this app

Wordaboo teaches a language the way you would actually learn one: a few minutes at a time, with pictures instead of translations, and every word spoken aloud.

GRAMMAR EXPLAINED IN YOUR OWN LANGUAGE
Most apps translate the same explanation into forty languages. Wordaboo writes a different one. "German says half past two as halfway to three" is a sentence about English — so if you speak Russian or Spanish, you get an explanation built around your language instead. Every grammar card in every course is written this way.

EIGHTEEN COURSES — FIVE TO B2, TWELVE TO B1.7, JAPANESE TO B1.5
• French, for English speakers — 166 lessons
• German, for English speakers
• Spanish, for English speakers
• English, for French speakers
• English, for Russian speakers
• English, for Spanish speakers
• English, for Portuguese speakers
• English, for Uzbek speakers
• English, for Turkish speakers
• English, for Indonesian speakers
• English, for Hindi speakers
• German, for Spanish speakers
• German, for Russian speakers
• Spanish, for French speakers
• French, for Spanish speakers
• Italian, for English speakers — 120 lessons to B1.7
• Portuguese (Brazil), for English speakers — 120 lessons to B1.7
• Japanese, for English speakers — new, 99 lessons in kana to B1.5, every word and sentence with its rōmaji

2,194 lessons in total, and 13,457 spoken words and phrases.

THE APP SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE TOO
Not just the lessons — every screen, every button, every message, in nine languages: English, Russian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Uzbek, Turkish, Indonesian and Hindi. Hindi is written in Devanagari throughout.

THE SAME VOICE ON EVERY PHONE
Every word is spoken aloud with the same audio on every phone, rather than your handset's own voice — four different voices, and nothing that changes from device to device. A course downloads once when you open it, then works offline. Long-press any speaker button to hear it more slowly.

HOW IT WORKS
• Short lessons, about four minutes each
• Pictures instead of translations, wherever a picture is clearer
• A placement test so you do not start below where you are — it never moves you backwards
• A daily goal you pick yourself
• Streaks, with a freeze so one missed day does not undo a good month
• A weekly league of 20 people who all started the same week
• Friend streaks, entirely optional and off until you turn them on

The levels describe what each chapter teaches, on the A1–B2 scale schools use. They are not a certificate.

Wordaboo is free. Premium removes ads and the waiting, and is never required to finish a course.

What’s new

Every course now goes to B2.

Eleven stopped at B1.7 before. All eighteen now run to B2.4, including Italian, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese.

396 new lessons. 2,818 in total, every one with audio.

Fixed: league scores could show lifetime XP, some map icons were blank, the league reminder came every Sunday, and the placement test asked you to sign in too early.