Speaking is the part you skip.

Language Cafe puts you in a live voice room with other learners. Around it sits a short daily plan, a levelled reading library, and AI feedback on what you write and say.

Free with ads · Premium removes them · 13 interface languages · Android and iPhone

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Practice

A daily plan that actually adapts.

Pick a language and a goal. The Practice tab builds the day’s path, then changes what comes next based on what you get right and wrong.

Nothing you learn stays passive.

Every day ends with a round where you have to produce something yourself.

  • My Words brings every word you save back on a schedule, from New to Strong.
  • Meaning Match quizzes them by reading, by listening, or by filling the blank.
  • What you write and say is marked on CEFR-style criteria.
  • Grammar, listening and exam paths, TOEFL and IELTS in English first.
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Voice Cafes

You can join a room and say nothing.

A cafe is a live voice room with hosts, moderators, speakers and listeners. Raise your hand when you want the stage. Until then, listen.

Every game gets the room talking.

Read one article together in sync, run a live word quiz, watch a video with the room, or open one of the games.

  • Open a cafe now, or schedule one with RSVPs and reminders.
  • The games are cooperative and built for speaking: info-gap, rebuilding, describing, ranking.
  • First one in? Practice with the AI companion until somebody joins.
Piece It TogetherRebuild ItGuess WhatRank ItHot TopicsThis or ThatWould You RatherStory ChainDebate DuelTwo Truths & a LieJust a MinuteRoleplay Theater
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Reading

Read at your level. Keep every word.

Stories and articles from A1 to C2. Level and reading time are on the card before you open it, here on the web and in the app.

Tap a word, save a word.

A day spent reading still counts towards your streak.

  • Filter by CEFR level, topic, length and format, including series and long reads.
  • Listen instead: narration follows the text sentence by sentence.
  • Follow-up questions check you understood it — multiple choice and short answers.
  • The library on this site is free to read, no account needed.
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The wiki

Nobody knows your language better than you do.

We opened the whole content library on purpose, so the people who actually speak a language can teach it. Write a conversation card, add a word, fix a sentence no native speaker would ever say. A reviewer in that language checks it, then learners see it.

Three people around one open book: one writing in it, one pointing at a line, one checking it with a magnifying glass

Come and write something.

You do not need a teaching qualification. You need to speak the language, and to care whether a sentence sounds right.

  • Start with one card. A question worth talking about takes two minutes to write.
  • Still learning yourself? Suggest a fix to anything already published — a reviewer decides, and the writer hears why.
  • Your name stays on your work, and comes off whenever you say so.
Write something in the wiki

Community

Practice doesn’t stop when the room closes.

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Communities

Language pairs, book clubs, study groups. Public, request-to-join or invite-only, with posts, polls, events and a word of the day.

Tandem partners

The People tab finds learners who speak what you are learning and want what you speak. You decide who can find you and who can message you.

Corrections, on your terms

Open a post to corrections and other learners suggest fixes. You choose which ones to accept.

AI, honestly

The AI switches start off.

Private by default

Nothing you write or say goes to an AI tool until you turn a switch on. Even then, the feature waits for you to use it.

You hold the switches

Text, voice and personalization are separate choices in Settings → Privacy & AI data. None of them is consent for model training.

Honest about limits

AI gives practice estimates, not official scores. The prepared learning material still works with every switch off.

Loading the reading library

Checking the current edition.

The first room is the hard one.

After that it is just talking. Get the app, pick your languages, and listen in until you feel like speaking.