Independent since 2016 Β· 30+ languages
Record phrases from native speakers and teachers, with their real voice. Practise them until you can say them without thinking, and train your ear with YouTube videos and dual subtitles.
Practising is always free. For iPhone and Android.
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Learn languages the way humans always have: by listening and by saying things. Lingophant makes it faster.
Passive understanding
Watch regional YouTube videos with subtitles in both languages. Tap a word to see what it means, slow it down, pause after each line. Understanding lots of real speech is how your feeling for grammar grows.
Active vocabulary
Someone says a phrase you need, and you can record it. Lingophant transcribes and translates it into a card with their voice. You practise by testing yourself, and the app suggests when to look at it again, so it gets into your long-term memory.
And the grammar patterns: we’ve summed them up for most languages in 9 key topics you can read once you’re getting a feeling for it.
Jokes at a family table. Chatting with the neighbours. Ordering, arguing, flirting, explaining, in their language. That’s what Lingophant prepares you for.
The people around you can be your best teachers. They say it once; you keep it, with their voice, and you never have to ask for the same word again.
Nobody to record yet?Start on your own. Almost all languages come with 10 sets of phrases, curated YouTube videos and grammar topics: enough to start talking. From there you can improve with every conversation you have.
The app counts phrases in memory and minutes of video you’ve watched.
How fast depends on the time you put in. A session takes 15 to 30 minutes, and fits into time you’d lose anyway: the commute, a break, waiting for a friend.
Every recorded phrase keeps the melody and the expressions of the person who said it. You copy a human, which is how accents are learned.
After the basics, you record what you needed, got wrong or sounds funny, and you watch what you’d enjoy anyway. So it fits you, and you have a connection to everything you learn.
More intense than a game, on purpose. You try to say a fully correct phrase, like in real life. Every minute goes into language you’ll use, saving you time.
Your phrases stay on your phone, and practising them is free forever. Pick a language up again a year later, right where you left it.
Even though I had completed A2 German, I still found it really difficult to talk. I am now able to communicate in German. Last month I visited many shops and the shocking thing was that I was able to communicate in German with the shopkeepers. You guys are awesome.
Jayabadhrinath, 28learning German
Pronunciation was kind of difficult, but now I can pronounce way better and speak. I wouldn’t have imagined that I can hold some conversations with my German friends this year.
Jimena, 19learning German
I work for an international company and am a language lover. My problem was expressing myself in Spanish well. This improved my memorisation. And it’s super fun and helpful to learn with natives.
Jana, 27learning Spanish
phrases.lingophant.com/β¦Copy linkRecord phrases during your lessons and share them with a private link. Your students practise with your voice between lessons, and train their listening with videos from the country. Teacher mode is free.
Lingophant is a small, independent company from Vienna, bootstrapped since 2016. We didn’t advertise until we knew the method works, and our founder Alex tested it first.
First with Russian, practised mainly on the metro. After 15 weeks he knew 500 phrases and had a one-hour conversation without using English (with a bit of translation help). Then Alex moved to Georgia to try one of the hardest languages around. Three years and 1000 phrases later: pretty much fluent, and enjoyed time with a Georgian girlfriend who speaks neither English nor German.
We say only what we can back up. And as Lingophant grows, most of what it earns will go back into content made by the community. Because we don’t have investors to pay off.
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No free trial, and none needed: start free and upgrade when 3 new phrases a day isn’t enough. The exact price for your country is shown in the App Store or Google Play. Pricing β
No. Start with ten starter phrasesets, the videos and the grammar topics. Then work with people to make it faster and more personal, because they record exactly what you need.
30+ languages, from German and Spanish to Georgian and Japanese. Even minority languages work if you manually transcribe. See the Language Content Library β
For what they can’t give you: the phrases you needed during real conversations. Plus listening to real speech on YouTube from the same app. Lingophant is optimized for effectiveness, Duolingo for mass marketing, Anki is a general purpose tool.
Your phrases stay private on your phone. Uploaded phrasesets are not discoverable by others. Recordings are transcribed when you make them, by Apple or Google, where we pay extra so Google doesn’t store them. Privacy policy β
Then 3 new phrases a day. Practising what you’ve learned stays free, always.
Phrasesets, curated listening videos and grammar summaries. Content Library β
Practising is always free. For iPhone and Android.