Vokabulo

Most language apps and courses are built for the road to B1: the grammar, the pronunciation and the first thousand words everybody needs. Vokabulo is a personal vocabulary trainer for what comes after. Once a learner can already speak, the words they still lack come from their own work, conversations and interests, so there is no shared list left for a course to teach. Vokabulo lets them capture any word they meet, fills in the translation, a natural example sentence and a usage label, and brings it back at the moment they would otherwise lose it, until they can reach for it under pressure. They can also describe a situation they are about to face, a rental contract appointment or a client presentation, and get the vocabulary for it in under a minute. Vokabulo supports more than 100 languages in any pair combination, runs on iPhone, iPad and in any current browser, and is free to start.

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