Try learning a language for free!
We use real-world conversations to teach you the most important grammar and vocabulary. Learn how the language works and pick up practical words and phrases that you can use today.
Our courses teach and reinforce all aspects of your new language, so you come out ready for any situation.
Match your voice to thousands of words and phrases. Our state-of-the-art voice recognition tool checks your pronunciation and shows you where you need to improve.
We don’t just stop at teaching you a few words and phrases. We show you how the language works, with comprehensive, easy-to-follow lessons.
Our tools and lessons will get you speaking your new language out loud, so you can get used to making those unfamiliar noises and shapes with your mouth.
Every lesson comes with a range of testing tools to make sure the material sticks in your memory. Our clever algorithms then adapt to focus on areas where you need more help.
Our downloadable lessons and mobile app help you make the most of your time. Learn while you’re on the bus, at the gym, or weeding the garden.
Our courses give you more learning material than most other courses out there. We cover more ground, in more depth, with more tools to help you along the way. You know you’re getting bang-for-buck.
Post by guest blogger Jamie McGhee: Jamie McGhee is a novelist, playwright and aspiring polyglot. Whether you need to pick up basic Mandarin for a Beijing job transfer, or whether you’re finally pursuing a lifelong love of ancient Greek, the language-learning process is an exciting one—and, believe it or not, it’s fun too. You don’t need the dusty classrooms or the textbooks that you used in secondary school.
With 6,500 languages in the world, life is way too short to speak just one. Or two. Or three.