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 Spanish lesson

Turn a memorized phrase into a sentence you can adapt: say what you want, ask another person, and recognize a polite request.

Build a request, then change who is speaking →

Explanation, worked examples and four exercises with answers.

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SPANISH / FOUNDATIONS

Español

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.

Use usted-style verbs with unfamiliar adults until the local level of formality is clear. Disculpe gets attention politely; perdón also apologizes. 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

HelloHola.

Thank youGracias.

Excuse me / sorryDisculpe.

Communication

I do not understand.No entiendo.

Please speak more slowly.Hable más despacio, por favor.

Could you repeat that?¿Puede repetirlo?

Please write it down.¿Puede escribirlo?

Bathrooms

Where is the bathroom?¿Dónde está el baño?

Food & ordering

This one, please.Este, por favor.

Water, please.Agua, por favor.

The bill, please.La cuenta, por favor.

Without milk, please.Sin leche, por favor.

To take away, please.Para llevar, por favor.

Shops & payment

How much is it?¿Cuánto cuesta?

Can I pay by card?¿Puedo pagar con tarjeta?

A bag, please.Una bolsa, por favor.

Taxi & transport

To the airport, please.Al aeropuerto, por favor.

Airport

Where is the exit?¿Dónde está la salida?

Help

I need help.Necesito ayuda.

Listen for

Cash or card?¿Efectivo o tarjeta?

Anything else?¿Algo más?

Reply

No, thank you.No, gracias.

Yes, please.Sí, por favor.

Hotels

I have a reservation.Tengo una reserva.

SPANISH / GRAMMAR REFERENCE

Forms, rules & structure

Standard Spanish, with tú/usted and the Spain vosotros forms shown. Voseo has additional regional paradigms.

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 & articles

Nouns are masculine or feminine. Many -o nouns are masculine and -a nouns feminine, but gender must be learned with the word.
Plural commonly adds -s after an unstressed vowel and -es after a consonant; final z becomes c before -es. Articles agree in gender and number.

Nouns, gender & articles · reference forms
Type	Singular	Plural
masculine	el libro / un libro	los libros / unos libros
feminine	la casa / una casa	las casas / unas casas
consonant	el papel	los papeles
z spelling	la luz	las luces
exception	la mano	las manos

Worked examples

El agua fría está aquí.

The cold water is here.

How it works: Agua remains feminine; singular el occurs before its stressed initial a. Fría shows feminine agreement.

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