Free learning tools
Start with the tools people reopen. Secondary utilities stay listed — they are not the weekly spine.
Use these most
Tools built for repeat sessions — roots, high-frequency vocab, register, and output.
Root-Family Explorer
Romance, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, and Latin families.
Daily roots
First 500 words
Meet · match · practice lists for dozens of languages.
High-frequency
Script trainer
Hangul, kana, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari, and more — meet · match · recall.
New scripts
Register & nuance
Formal vs informal and domain packs — workplace, academic, media.
C1–C2
Collocations & markers
Hedges, connectors, and set phrases across five languages.
C1–C2
Output workshop
Emails, soft disagreement, summaries, formal↔informal rewrites.
Production
Media study sheets
Weekly clip guides with vocab, register notes, and tasks.
Native input
C1 assessed tasks
Summarize, rewrite, and place discourse markers with models.
Self-check
Also useful
Strong when you already know the job — verbs, listening pick, topic decks.
Conjugation Explorer
Tense tables for Spanish, German, Italian, French, and Portuguese.
Top verbs
Listening picker
Pick today’s listen from checked resource lists.
15-minute listen
Topic decks
Curated topics across Romance plus Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Latin.
Situational vocab
Root of the day
One root or Mandarin character family each day. Streaks save in this browser.
One family
False-friend quiz
English lookalike traps for Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, German.
Trap words
7-day study plan
A simple week from your language and level answers.
From /start/
Secondary utilities
Fine as helpers — not the spine of your week.
Cloze practice
Gap-fill from root families and high-frequency verbs.
Fill the blank
Quick practice
Conjugation sprint, gender/article picking, and minimal pairs.
Sprints
Printable worksheet
Print a root family or First 500 batch for offline study.
One page
Typing accents guide
Windows, Mac, and Linux shortcuts — plus the on-screen character pad.
OS tips
A simple order
- New script? Script trainer for a week before heavy vocabulary work.
- Vocabulary? Explorer or First 500, then invent sentences out loud.
- Stuck at B2+ Register, collocations, media sheets, output workshop — not another beginner app.
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