Communities
Language pairs, book clubs, study groups — public, request-to-join, or invite-only, with posts, polls, events, and a word of the day.
Connect. Practice. Learn.
Practice a language with real people.
Language Cafe pairs a daily practice plan with live voice cafes, a levelled reading library, AI feedback, and communities of learners — so speaking stops being the part you skip.
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Live voice cafesDaily practice pathAI feedback13 interface languages
A1–C2Levelled reading library
4 skillsRead · write · speak · listen
20+Voice-room activities
13Interface languages
Practice
A daily plan that actually adapts.
The Practice tab builds you a short daily path for your language and goal — then adjusts it to how you learn.
Take in. Remember. Use.
Every day mixes new words, spaced review, a short read, and a round of real output — so nothing you learn stays passive.
- My Words — every word you tap is saved and reviewed with spaced repetition, from New to Strong.
- Meaning Match — quick quiz rounds in reading, listening, and fill-the-blank modes.
- Write and speak with AI feedback — practice estimates on CEFR-style criteria. Practice feedback, not an official score.
- Grammar, listening, and exam preparation — guided paths with TOEFL and IELTS goals (English first).
Review wordsWarm up your words · 2 min
Listen and understandShort clips with quick questions
Speak and get feedbackRecord up to 75 seconds
Write and get feedbackSentences or a full task
Voice Cafes
Speaking happens in live cafes.
A cafe is a live voice room you can open instantly or schedule ahead. Talk freely — or start a game, a shared reading, a live quiz, or a watch party.
Every game gets the room talking.
Rooms have hosts, moderators, speakers, and listeners — raise your hand to join the stage, or just listen in until you're ready.
- Open or schedule — instant rooms, or planned cafes with RSVPs and reminders.
- Shared modes — read one article together in sync, run a live word quiz, or watch a video together.
- Cooperative games — info-gap, rebuilding, describing, and ranking activities built for speaking.
- AI companion — the only one in the room? Practice with the AI companion while you wait.
Piece It TogetherRebuild ItGuess WhatRank ItHot TopicsThis or ThatWould You RatherStory ChainDebate DuelTwo Truths & a LieJust a MinuteRoleplay Theater
Schedule aheadPick a time, invite the right people
Host, moderate, speak, listenClear roles keep rooms constructive
Live game activitiesWarm-ups, debates, roleplay, quizzes
Reading
Read at your level. Keep every word.
Stories and articles from A1 to C2, with covers, reading time, and level shown up front — on the web and in the app.
Tap a word, save a word.
In the app, every word you tap while reading is translated and saved into My Words for review. Your place is saved, your streak keeps counting.
- Levelled library — filter by CEFR level, topic, length, and format, including series and long reads.
- Listen to the article — narration with sentence-by-sentence follow-along.
- Check your understanding — reading follow-ups with multiple choice, short answers, and more.
- Read here first — the public library is free to read on this site, no account needed.
Tap any word to translateHold a sentence for more
Continue readingYour place is saved across devices
Words saved this sessionStraight into My Words review
Community
Find your people.
Communities, tandem partners, and messages keep practice going between sessions.
Tandem partners
The People tab finds learners who can teach you — and learn from you. You control who can find you and who can message you.
Corrections, on your terms
Open a post to corrections and other learners can suggest fixes. Always opt-in — you choose what to accept.
AI, honestly
AI that helps — with switches you control.
AI feedback in Language Cafe is optional, consent-gated, and honest about its limits.
Private by default
Nothing is sent to an AI tool unless you turn the switch on — and even then, a feature still needs your action.
You hold the switches
Separate choices for text, voice, and personalization live in Settings → Privacy & AI data. They are not consent for model training.
Honest about limits
AI gives practice estimates, not official scores — and prepared learning material stays available when every switch is off.
From the library
Essays on learning, written by hand.
Long-form writing on the parts of language learning that don't get talked about honestly — speaking, plateaus, and the difference between practice and theatre.
The shipping container
On 26 April 1956 a converted oil tanker sailed from Newark to Houston carrying 58 metal boxes. The boxes contained whatever their owners had paid to ship; the ship's captain did not know and did not need to. Within fifty years, every consumer product you have ever bought has spent part of its life in a container exactly like one of those 58.
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Haber-Bosch
In 1909 a German chemist demonstrated a tabletop apparatus that pulled nitrogen out of the air and combined it with hydrogen to make ammonia. Industrial scale-up followed. The process now feeds approximately half of all humans alive — and made modern explosives and nerve agents possible. The chemist's wife killed herself the day after the first chlorine attack at Ypres.
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The transistor
On 16 December 1947, three physicists at Bell Labs in New Jersey demonstrated a tiny device that amplified electrical signals using a sliver of germanium and two gold contacts. The device was about the size of a fingernail. Every electronic object that has been built since — every computer, every phone, every microwave oven, every car — contains its descendants.
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How John Leal saved more lives than any doctor
On 26 September 1908, a public-health doctor in Jersey City began secretly adding calcium hypochlorite to the city's drinking water. He did it without consulting his board. He did it in apparent violation of his contract. He was sued. He was the most important benefactor of public health in American history.
Read essay →Your streak starts today.
Download Language Cafe, pick your languages, and join your first voice cafe — or start with a short daily plan and work up to it.