Language practice

Choose a language, then practise its grammar, vocabulary, culture or writing.

WORKSPACE

Pick a task before a language tab. Choose the language you want to use, then work on one small task. Reading a script, learning a grammar rule and responding in conversation need different practice.

Before you start: Choose one goal: say a phrase, understand a sentence, or recognize writing. Guided lessons are the explanation-first route; the practice tabs let you drill a skill.

Grammar: Patterns that let words form sentences.
Writing system: The characters or letters used to record a language.

Start here — Need to speak today?: Choose a language and start with Survival. Practise the reply as well as the phrase you say first.

What you should get: You can make one small variation and explain why the form changes. If you cannot, revisit that rule before adding more phrases.

Full steps, example and limits

Need to speak today?
Choose a language and start with Survival. Practise the reply as well as the phrase you say first.
Need to read?
Use Writing systems for recognition, Pronunciation for spelling-to-sound rules, and Kanji + Hanzi for character and word study.
Need to build sentences?
Read a grammar rule, work through its example, then answer without looking. Check Vocabulary and Culture to see how the words are used.

Try this: Choose German. Find a survival exchange and say both parts aloud. Change one noun using the grammar explanation instead of memorizing a second whole sentence.

Know the limit: Track depth varies. A chart is a reference, and recognizing an answer is not the same as producing it in a conversation.

Start with pronunciation

Kanji + Hanzi: character lookup, 214 radicals and stroke practice →

Mandarin Chinese / Taiwan

Bopomofo / Zhuyin

注音符號

Mandarin Chinese: language lessons & context

A set of phonetic symbols used to show Mandarin pronunciation. Syllables are assembled from an initial, a medial or final, and a tone.

The first version was created in 1913 and released in 1918. It remains a practical reading, dictionary, and keyboard tool in Taiwan.

SYMBOLS: 37
TONES: 5
ALSO CALLED: Zhuyin / Zhuyin Fuhao

Taiwan Ministry of Education manual

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Initials

Medials

Finals

Tones

Pronunciation: sounds, reading rules, stress, tone & practice →
All 47 pronunciation chapters & the IPA sound key →

Guided French lesson

Explain a small problem clearly: you do not understand, you do not have a ticket, or you are not a tourist. Learn why these negatives are built differently.

Make a negative sentence without losing the verb →

Explanation, worked examples and four exercises with answers.

Open the writing chart for this script →

FRENCH / FOUNDATIONS

Français

Start with the words you need.
Build your own sentences.

The words for everyday life.

Find a situation, read the phrase, or show the native text. Learn common replies as well as questions.

SituationFind a phrase

Pronunciation & how to use these phrases

Start with the writing charts, then listen to complete words. Device speech depends on installed voices and may use a different regional accent. Spelling and sound do not match one-to-one.

Toilettes is normally plural in this meaning. Spoken French may omit ne; listen for pas to catch a negative. Learning path: recognise words and phrases → build simple sentences → practise questions and replies → expand tense and connected speech → read and discuss longer texts. These foundation lessons are available now; later stages will grow with the collection.

24 phrases

Basics

HelloBonjour.

Thank youMerci.

Excuse me / sorryExcusez-moi.

Communication

I do not understand.Je ne comprends pas.

Please speak more slowly.Parlez plus lentement, s’il vous plaît.

Could you repeat that?Vous pouvez répéter ?

Please write it down.Vous pouvez l’écrire ?

Bathrooms

Where is the bathroom?Où sont les toilettes ?

Food & ordering

This one, please.Celui-ci, s’il vous plaît.

Water, please.De l’eau, s’il vous plaît.

The bill, please.L’addition, s’il vous plaît.

Without milk, please.Sans lait, s’il vous plaît.

To take away, please.À emporter, s’il vous plaît.

Shops & payment

How much is it?Ça coûte combien ?

Can I pay by card?Je peux payer par carte ?

A bag, please.Un sac, s’il vous plaît.

Taxi & transport

To the airport, please.À l’aéroport, s’il vous plaît.

Airport

Where is the exit?Où est la sortie ?

Help

I need help.J’ai besoin d’aide.

Listen for

Cash or card?En espèces ou par carte ?

Anything else?Autre chose ?

Reply

No, thank you.Non, merci.

Yes, please.Oui, s’il vous plaît.

Hotels

I have a reservation.J’ai une réservation.

FRENCH / GRAMMAR REFERENCE

Forms, rules & structure

Standard French; spoken omissions are distinguished from written forms.

8 chapters

Grammar terminology

Noun: A word used to name or classify an entity: person, place, object, substance, idea.
Adjective: A word that describes a property; its form and position depend on the language.
Pronoun: A form used to refer to a participant or entity without repeating a full noun phrase.
Determiner: A word such as an article, demonstrative or possessive that helps specify a noun phrase.
Verb: A word heading a predicate, often describing an action, event or state.
Conjugation: A pattern of verb forms expressing grammatical distinctions such as person, tense or mood.
Declension: A pattern of noun, pronoun or adjective forms, often marking case, number and gender.
Case: A distinction marking a noun phrase’s grammatical role or its relationship to a governing word.
Gender: A grammatical classification of nouns; it need not match sex or have a transparent meaning.
Agreement: A form changes to match features of another expression, such as person, number, gender or case.
Tense: A grammatical way of locating a situation relative to a time of reference.
Aspect: How a situation is viewed: for example ongoing, habitual, completed or prior to a reference point.
Mood: A grammatical distinction associated with assertion, possibility, commands, wishes or other clause functions.
Finite form: A verb form that can serve as a clause’s main inflected verb, contrasting with infinitives and participles. The precise criteria vary by language.
Participle: A verb-derived form used in constructions such as modifiers, compound tenses or passives; its roles vary by language.
Infinitive: A nonfinite verb form in languages that have one; it is not automatically equivalent to English “to + verb”.
Subject / object: Grammatical relations in a clause, not universal synonyms for “doer” and “receiver”.
Clitic: A short grammatical form that depends phonologically on a neighboring word.
Transitive: Describes a verb construction that takes a direct object.
Register: A variety of expression associated with context, relationship or level of formality.

RULES & PATTERNS

Nouns, gender, number & articles

Nouns are masculine or feminine. Learn the gender with the noun; many ending-based predictions have exceptions. Regular plurals normally add written -s, often without a sound change.
Definite le/la become l’ before a vowel sound or mute h; plural is les. Indefinite articles are un/une/des. Partitives du/de la/de l’ commonly introduce an unspecified amount.

Nouns, gender, number & articles · reference forms
Type	Singular	Plural
masculine	le livre / un livre	les livres / des livres
feminine	la table / une table	les tables / des tables
elision	l’ami / l’amie	les amis / les amies
irregular plural	le journal	les journaux
partitive	du pain	some bread

Worked examples

Je prends du pain et une pomme.

I am having some bread and an apple.

How it works: Du presents bread as an amount; une counts a single apple.

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