Learn a language while playing a language learning game. Lingo Pairs teaches you to learn Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic and ten more, by matching a word or a real sentence to its translation and hearing it said out loud.
People learn languages fastest with something they come back to, so this is a language game first. It is a matching card game, one pair at a time. Pick the language you speak and the one you are learning, any two of 20: English, Spanish (Spain or Latin America), Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Persian, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Bosnian, Urdu, Bengali, Swahili, Indonesian and Vietnamese.
HOW TO PLAY
Play alone to build vocabulary, or send a friend a link and play with 2 to 10 people at one table. Everyone takes turns turning two cards. Match a pair and you keep it and go again. Miss, and the two cards stay face up for everyone to study until the next player turns a card. Every table has a chat.
THE DIFFICULTY DIAL
Four steps, shown as dice on the back of every card. Easy deals single words. Normal deals words and short phrases. Hard and Expert deal whole conversational sentences: could I have that without onions, let's meet at half past six, sorry I didn't call sooner. This is where a vocabulary game turns into real practice.
WHAT IS INSIDE
10 topics: greetings, numbers, travel, food, shopping, time, family, health and emergencies, small talk and work. 400 core words in all 20 languages plus 997 conversational sentences. Every card has its own pronunciation clip, about 14,000 clips in all. Cards in non-Latin scripts show a romanised line so you can say what you see.
WHY A GAME
Matching is the whole mechanic, so the vocabulary is the play rather than a quiz bolted onto it. A round is a few minutes, which is the right size for a language game you actually come back to, and it is a calmer way to learn languages than a lesson you have to schedule. Learn Spanish on the bus, learn Japanese while the kettle boils.
NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS
Nothing to sign up for. Pick a name, start or join a table, and play. No ads, no subscription, no lives to wait for.
A NOTE ON TRANSLATIONS
The translations were written for language learners and cover everyday words and sentences. They have not yet been checked by native speakers of every language, so use them as a study aid rather than a certified reference.
Match words and real sentences in 20 languages. A language game, no account.