Polygloss: Learn Languages

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About this app

Are you feeling stuck in the "I can understand but I can't speak" part of your language learning journey? Despite all you've learned so far, do you feel you can't communicate? Look no more, Polygloss is right for you!

★ Guess images with friends.
★ Write creatively and increase your active vocabulary!
★ Ideal for motivated beginners and intermediate language learners (A2-B2). Not recommended for complete beginners.
★ Works really well alongside popular language learning apps like Duolingo.
★ Available for 80+ languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Welsh, Hebrew, Icelandic, Vietnamese, Russian, Arabic, Norwegian, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Dutch, Polish, Finnish, Portuguese, Esperanto, Toki Pona, and many more


For most language learners, moving from ‘understanding’ to ‘communicating’ is difficult. Those first conversations are stressful and don’t get any results.

This is where Polygloss comes in. Our mission is to help language learners be independent and enjoy life using a foreign language.

How do we do it?

Polygloss is an image guessing game that offers you sufficient interaction, guidance and lets you express yourself with freedom. Using new words, in your own personal context, is the best method for increasing your vocabulary. Better than simply reading, re-reading and memorizing words out of context!
Polygloss works, is science-backed, and was awarded best paper* at the 9th NLP4CALL workshop series at The University of Gothenburg.

Why does it work?
It is normal for language learners to experience more language exposure than language creation. Language creation is hard and needs to be nurtured.

There are different ways to increase your active vocabulary (words that you have the ability to use, not just understand). This includes intense repetition, consuming content you enjoy (books, series, movies), flashcards, etc. These methods are great and should be part of any language learners tool kit.

But, there is another way to increase your active vocabulary. Simply by using words. Ideally in your own personalized context.

And that’s why Polygloss works. It allows you to start communicating in a low stress environment. Helping you easily increase your active vocabulary and communication confidence.

Ready to make the jump from understanding to communicating? Download Polygloss today.

Features:

🖼 Image based lessons give you something to talk about.
🙌 No translation required! Use words you know to describe what you see.
😌 Low stress opportunity to creatively use your target language.
✍ Receive feedback and improve your writing.
🤍 Add people as friends or get randomly paired with other players.
⭐ Collect stars and progress through dozens of topics.
🏆 Compete with other learners in optional daily writing challenges.
📖 Bookmark your favorite sentences and corrections for later study.
📣 No right, wrong or useless sentences. Say what you want to say!
👌 Get word and sentence tips (Available only in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian. New languages and levels coming soon!)
👏 All minority and dialect languages possible. As long as you have a partner, you can play!

Coming soon:
🚀 See your vocabulary and learning stats.
🔊 Play with audio.
🎮 Review with mini games.

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Polygloss is a work in progress
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Questions, suggestions or bug reports?
https://instagram.com/polyglossapp
https://twitter.com/polyglossapp
[email protected]

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FAQ

Q. What languages are available?
A. All of them! But it needs at least one other player in the same language so you can play together. Don’t forget to invite your friends!

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Privacy Policy: https://polygloss.app/privacy/
Terms of Service: https://polygloss.app/terms/

*Link to award: https://tinyurl.com/m8jhf2w
Updated on
03 Sept 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Audio and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

4,8
567 reviews
Jaerivus 'Esperanto' McTavern
31 October 2024
I've really been enjoying this app, and I find its in-app economy very fair, especially for a free app. I love that they support fringe languages such as Esperanto and Interslavic, and although I came here for Interslavic (only to discover that I can't learn it from scratch here), I stayed for Esperanto. I really enjoy exercising my vocabulary from the creative writing exercises this app requires.
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Caitlin
24 September 2024
Lots of languages available but NOT FOR BEGINNERS. You're given an image and you have to describe it in a language you don't know to a partner, so they can guess what the image is. If I have zero words of vocabulary, that's not super helpful? I now realize from reading reviews that the developers are very specific about this being intended for intermediate level learners. I'd LOVE for them to retitle the game Polygloss: PRACTICE Languages then. It's misleading + frustrating.
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Polygloss
03 October 2024
Hi Caitlin, thanks for your review! I hope you give us another chance once you're a little bit more further ahead in your language learning journey. Maybe I ask which language you're learning? Because the app has word tips, sentence examples and translations for each image. So although very hard, it shouldn't be impossible to play as a beginner.
Sousa Larson
08 August 2024
Absolutely love this app! So much fun. This game is not for absolute beginners, you must have a basic understanding of grammar and at least a dictionary around. But it gives you a place to *practice* using your target language in a community where others can help correct and teach in short chunks. It's a fun way to practice and it supports and written language, there's no waiting for an update to support your conlang or lesser known. languages. I highly recommend this app!
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What's new

New in 2.5.2:
🐞 Keyboard fixes
🐞 UI fixes

New in 2.5.0:
🤖 (A/B test) - AI tutor on library
🐞 Image selection bug fixes

App support

About the developer
Etiene da Cruz Dalcol
Carrer de la Diputació, 89, Atico 2 08015 Barcelona Spain
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