Everything the app can do
The Language In Use app turns the words you meet into practice you can do anywhere. Build your own dictionaries, play games made from your words, look up verbs, talk to an AI tutor and learn alongside other people. It is available for Android, iPhone and iPad, Windows and Mac.
Your words, your dictionaries
Everything in the app starts from a dictionary: a word list for one language pair that you build and own.
- Personal dictionaries. Create as many word lists as you like, pick a default one, and find your most-used lists on the home screen.
- Rich entries. Each word can carry several translations, its word type and its grammatical gender. You can also add whole sentences, which unlock the sentence games.
- Look up a meaning. Search for a word in the language you're learning, read its meaning, hear it pronounced and add it to a dictionary in one tap.
- Ready-made dictionaries. Browse the dictionaries shop and download complete lists, words and useful links included, to get started straight away.
- Everything in one place. Each dictionary has tabs for its words, the games you can play with it, related articles from this website, your saved links and your stats.
16 games built from your own words
The games use the words in your dictionaries, so you practise exactly what you want to learn. A dictionary needs at least five words, and some games appear once it has the right content, such as sentences, images or nouns with a gender. Every round earns experience points.
Check Words
Recall each word's meaning from your language, into it, or a random mix of both.
Flash Cards
Flip a card to reveal the translation.
Quiz
Pick the right translation from four options, in either direction.
Match Words
Pair each word with its meaning.
Hangman
Guess the word one letter at a time.
Word Guess
Find a word from your dictionary in six tries, guided by coloured tiles.
Word Builder
Spell the word from shuffled letters.
Sentence Builder
Put the words of a sentence back in the right order.
Fill the Gap
Choose the missing word in a sentence.
Listening
Hear a word and pick its meaning. Works with dictionaries that include recordings, when you're online.
Gender
Choose the grammatical gender of each noun, for German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.
Picture
Match an image to its word.
Conjugation Challenge
Type the correct verb form for a given person and tense.
Word Search
Find hidden translations in a grid of letters.
Word Wheel
Make crossword words from a single set of letters.
Crossword
Fill in a crossword from the meanings of your words.
Verb conjugation
Search any verb and see its full conjugation across every tense. Save the verbs you're working on and they stay on your device, ready for the Conjugation Challenge game even when you're offline.
An AI tutor that answers back
Chat with an AI tutor in the language you're learning. It replies naturally and corrects your mistakes as you go, so you can practise real conversation whenever you like. You need an account to chat. Free accounts get five messages a day, and Premium makes it unlimited.
Learn with other people
- Community chat. Find learners by name, town or the languages they're learning, and chat one-to-one or in groups once they accept. Share photos and files, and get notified about new messages even when the app is closed.
- Learning groups. Discover and join the same groups you'll find on the website, and take part on the group wall with shared resources, likes and comments.
- Your profile. Add your photo, town and languages so the right people can find you.
- Notifications. One inbox for everything that happened while you were away.
See your progress
- Statistics. Right and wrong answers month by month, with optional charts on the home screen.
- Practice streak. A calendar of the days you practised, to help you keep the habit.
- Experience and levels. Earn XP from every game and watch your level grow.
- Practice time. Track how long you study against a recommended daily goal.
- Study reminders. A daily reminder at the time you choose, plus word reminders with a little motivation. You set the hours and how many per day.
Works offline, stays in sync
Your dictionaries, saved verbs and games are stored on your device, so you can practise on a plane or underground. Online features such as search, articles, the AI tutor and community chat come back as soon as you're connected.
Sign in with your Language In Use account and your lives, experience points and practice time sync across your devices and with this website. A Premium subscription works everywhere, whether you bought it on the website or in an app store.
Free, with optional Premium
Every feature on this page is free to use. Games use lives, and free accounts are topped back up to five lives every day. You can earn extra lives by watching a short ad on Android and iPhone, or buy a pack of lives.
A Premium subscription, monthly or yearly, gives you:
- unlimited games, with no lives to worry about,
- no ads, and
- unlimited chat with your AI tutor.
Prices are shown in your local currency in the app store. You can restore purchases and manage your subscription from the app. See our terms and privacy policy for details.
Made for every screen
The app's interface is available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. On Windows and Mac, a menu bar and keyboard shortcuts make practice at your desk quick, and you can sign in with your fingerprint or face on supported devices.
Ready to try it?
Download the app for your device. It's free to start.