Language & Words

The spaced repetition flashcard system serious learners settle on, with shared decks for nearly every subject.

Fill-in-the-blank sentences mined from real corpora, aimed squarely at people who have outgrown the beginner apps.

Gamified courses in dozens of languages, plus the guilt engine keeping most people's streaks technically alive.

Native speakers pronouncing individual words in hundreds of languages, for when a phonetic spelling is not enough.

Chart how often a phrase appears in books since 1500, which settles a surprising number of arguments outright.

A marketplace of language tutors giving one-to-one video lessons at wildly varying prices and standards.

Free audio courses that teach by making you work out the grammar yourself, made by one person with no adverts.

Read and listen to real material while tapping unknown words, which quietly become your review deck.

Vocabulary drills built around clips of native speakers saying the phrase in an actual street.

Type a surname and get where it came from, what it originally meant and where in the world it still clusters.

An encyclopedia of the world's writing systems, including the invented, the extinct and the barely attested.

Where English words came from, sourced and dated, compiled by one man who has been at it since 2000.

Translations shown inside real bilingual sentences, so you can see which option a person would actually use.

Rhymes, near rhymes, synonyms and usage examples — quietly the best tool available to anyone writing anything.

A collaborative database of example sentences translated across languages, better than any dictionary for context.

A dictionary drawn as a spring-loaded graph, with related meanings pulling away from each word you type.

A dictionary of every word in every language, including etymologies, declension tables and regional slang.

A dictionary showing real usage, related words and examples pulled from the wild rather than agreed by committee.