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lingua.direct AI Voice Translation

Language practice by speaking

Make you talk real conversation for the language you dey learn. One AI partner go reply you at your level, help you when you jam, and allow you tap any word to see wetin e mean.

Practice mode dey built for di part of language learning wey most apps no dey reach: di real talking. You talk out loud for di language wey you dey learn and one AI conversation partner go reply you at level wey just pass your own, so every reply dey understandable but still dey teach you something. If you make mistake, di answer go naturally show you di correct form, like how patient friend for do, no red mark, no buzzer. Translations dey hide until you need dem: tap any word or sentence to see wetin e mean, with romanization like pinyin if di script new to you, and hear how to pronounce am. E dey work for more than 100 languages, including many wey no course or app dey teach, for any browser.

When to use am

Common situations where this mode dey make sense.

  • Build your confidence to talk

    You dey understand pass wetin you fit talk. Normal, cool-down conversation dey quick cut that gap pass any kain lesson.

  • Learn language wey no app dey teach

    Heritage languages, local languages, or di ones wey no common. If common apps no get your language, you fit practice am here.

  • Prepare for trip or move

    Practice di kain tory you go actually get: how to order food, small talk with neighbour, or ask for help. Make you no dey fear before you travel.

  • Wake up language wey don rust

    You don learn am before, you understand am, but your mouth dey jam when you want talk. Small small conversation go bring am back.

  • Talk with family for their language

    Practice before you call your grand-parents or your partner family, make di tory flow well.

  • Pass your current level

    Di person wey you dey practice with dey adapt as you dey improve, so e dey always push you make you sabi more.

How e dey work

  1. 1

    Pick the language you want learn

    Choose from more than 100 languages, and set your own language so translations go show for your language when you ask.

  2. 2

    Start to talk

    Introduce yourself, talk about your day, bring any topic. Start talking from minute one; your partner go meet you at your level and keep di tory moving.

  3. 3

    Tap wetin you no understand

    Any word or sentence go show translation, with romanization for script wey no be Latin, and you fit hear am talk out loud. Den jump back into di conversation.

Available for these languages

215 languages dey work with this mode. Di icons show wetin each one fit do.

Input: talk or type am Output: we go read am aloud Output: text only
  • Acehnese
    Bahsa Acèh
  • Afrikaans
    Afrikaans
  • Akan
    Akan
  • Albanian
    Shqip
  • Amharic
    አማርኛ
  • Arabic
    العربية
  • Aragonese
    aragonés
  • Armenian
    Հայերեն
  • Assamese
    অসমীয়া
  • Asturian
    Asturianu
  • Awadhi
    अवधी
  • Azerbaijani
    Azərbaycan
  • Balinese
    ᬩᬲᬩᬮᬶ
  • Balochi
    بلۏچی
  • Bambara
    Bamanankan
  • Banjar
    Bahasa Banjar
  • Bashkir
    Башҡортса
  • Basque
    Euskera
  • Batak Mandailing
    Saro Mandailing
  • Batanga
    Batanga
  • Belarusian
    Беларуская
  • Bemba
    Ichibemba
  • Bengali
    বাংলা
  • Bhojpuri
    भोजपुरी
  • Bodo
    बड़ो
  • Bosnian
    Bosanski
  • Breton
    Brezhoneg
  • Buginese
    ᨅᨔ ᨕᨘᨁᨗ
  • Bulgarian
    Български
  • Burmese
    မြန်မာ
  • Catalan
    Català
  • Cebuano
    Cebuano
  • Chhattisgarhi
    छत्तीसगढ़ी
  • Chichewa
    Chichewa
  • Chokwe
    Chokwe
  • Chuvash
    Чӑваш
  • Crimean Tatar
    Qırımtatar
  • Croatian
    Hrvatski
  • Czech
    Čeština
  • Danish
    Dansk
  • Degema
    Degema
  • Dogri
    डोगरी
  • Dutch
    Nederlands
  • Dzongkha
    རྫོང་ཁ
  • English
    English
  • Erzya
    Эрзянь кель
  • Esperanto
    Esperanto
  • Estonian
    Eesti
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  • Ewe
    Èʋegbe
  • Extremaduran
    estremeñu
  • Faroese
    Føroyskt
  • Fijian
    Vosa Vakaviti
  • Filipino
    Filipino
  • Finnish
    Suomi
  • Fon
    Fon gbè
  • French
    Français
  • Friulian
    Furlan
  • Fulah
    Fulfulde
  • Galician
    Galego
  • Georgian
    ქართული
  • German
    Deutsch
  • Greek
    Ελληνικά
  • Gujarati
    ગુજરાતી
  • Haitian Creole
    Kreyòl ayisyen
  • Hausa
    Hausa
  • Hawaiian
    ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
  • Hebrew
    עברית
  • Hiligaynon
    Ilonggo
  • Hindi
    हिन्दी
  • Hindko (Northern)
    ہندکو
  • Hungarian
    Magyar
  • Icelandic
    Íslenska
  • Igbo
    Igbo
  • Ilocano
    Ilokano
  • Indonesian
    Bahasa Indonesia
  • Interlingua
    interlingua
  • Irish
    Gaeilge
  • Italian
    Italiano
  • Japanese
    日本語
  • Jaunsari
    जौनसारी
  • Javanese
    Basa Jawa
  • Kabiyè
    Kabɩyɛ
  • Kabuverdianu
    Kabuverdianu
  • Kabyle
    Taqbaylit
  • Kalenjin
  • Kamba
    Kĩkamba
  • Kanauji
    कन्नौजी
  • Kannada
    ಕನ್ನಡ
  • Kanuri
    Kanuri
  • Karakalpak
    Қарақалпақша
  • Kashmiri
    كٲشُر
  • Kazakh
    Қазақша
  • Khmer
    ខ្មែរ
  • Kikuyu
    Gĩkũyũ
  • Kinyarwanda
    Kinyarwanda
  • Kituba
    Kituba
  • Konjo
    Rukonzo
  • Konkani
    कोंकणी
  • Korean
    한국어
  • Kurdish
    Kurdî
  • Kyrgyz
    Кыргызча
  • Ladin
    ladin
  • Lao
    ລາວ
  • Latgalian
    latgalīšu volūda
  • Latin
    Latina
  • Latvian
    Latviešu
  • Ligurian
    Ligure
  • Limburgish
    Limburgs
  • Lingala
    Lingála
  • Lithuanian
    Lietuvių
  • Luba-Kasai
    Tshiluba
  • Luganda
    Luganda
  • Luhya
    Luluhia
  • Luo
    Dholuo
  • Luxembourgish
    Lëtzebuergesch
  • Macedonian
    Македонски
  • Magahi
    मगही
  • Maithili
    मैथिली
  • Makhuwa
    Emakhuwa
  • Malagasy
    Malagasy
  • Malay
    Bahasa Melayu
  • Malayalam
    മലയാളം
  • Maltese
    Malti
  • Mandarin (Chinese)
    中文
  • Marathi
    मराठी
  • Mari (Meadow)
    Олык марий
  • Maria (Gondi)
    माड़िया
  • Marwari
    मारवाड़ी
  • Meitei
    মেইতেই
  • Minangkabau
    Baso Minang
  • Mizo
    Mizo ṭawng
  • Mongolian
    Монгол
  • Mossi
    Mòoré
  • Māori
    Māori
  • N'Ko
    ߒߞߏ
  • Naija Pidgin
    Naija
  • Neapolitan
    Napulitano
  • Nepali
    नेपाली
  • Nimadi
    निमाड़ी
  • Northern Sotho
    Sesotho sa Leboa
  • Norwegian
    Norsk
  • Occitan
    Occitan
  • Od
    اوڈکی
  • Odia
    ଓଡ଼ିଆ
  • Ormuri
    اورمڑی
  • Pahari (Western)
    पहाड़ी
  • Pangasinan
    Salitan Pangasinan
  • Papiamento
    Papiamentu
  • Pashto
    پښتو
  • Persian
    فارسی
  • Pidgin (Cameroon)
    Kamtok
  • Piedmontese
    Piemontèis
  • Polish
    Polski
  • Portuguese
    Português
  • Punjabi
    ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
  • Quechua (Southern)
    Runa simi
  • Romanian
    Română
  • Rundi
    Ikirundi
  • Russian
    Русский
  • Samoan
    Gagana Sāmoa
  • Sango
    Sängö
  • Sanskrit
    संस्कृतम्
  • Santali
    ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ
  • Sardinian
    Sardu
  • Scottish Gaelic
    Gàidhlig
  • Serbian
    Српски
  • Shona
    ChiShona
  • Sicilian
    Sicilianu
  • Silesian
    Ślōnskŏ gŏdka
  • Sindhi
    سنڌي
  • Sinhala
    සිංහල
  • Slovak
    Slovenčina
  • Slovenian
    Slovenščina
  • Somali
    Soomaali
  • Southern Sotho
    Sesotho
  • Southwestern Dinka
    Thuɔŋjäŋ
  • Spanish
    Español
  • Sundanese
    Basa Sunda
  • Swahili
    Kiswahili
  • Swati
    siSwati
  • Swedish
    Svenska
  • Tajik
    Тоҷикӣ
  • Tamasheq
    Tamasheq
  • Tamil
    தமிழ்
  • Tatar
    Татар теле
  • Telugu
    తెలుగు
  • Thai
    ไทย
  • Tibetan
    བོད་ཡིག
  • Tigrinya
    ትግርኛ
  • Tok Pisin
    Tok Pisin
  • Tsonga
    Xitsonga
  • Tswana
    Setswana
  • Tumbuka
    Chitumbuka
  • Turkish
    Türkçe
  • Turkmen
    Türkmençe
  • Tuvan
    Тыва дыл
  • Twi
    Twi
  • Ukrainian
    Українська
  • Umbundu
    Umbundu
  • Urdu
    اردو
  • Uyghur
    ئۇيغۇرچە
  • Uzbek
    O'zbek
  • Venetian
    Vèneto
  • Vietnamese
    Tiếng Việt
  • Võro
    võro kiil
  • Wadiyara Koli
    واڈیارا کولی
  • Waray
    Winaray
  • Welsh
    Cymraeg
  • West Central Oromo
    Afaan Oromoo
  • West Frisian
    Frysk
  • Wolof
    Wolof
  • Xhosa
    isiXhosa
  • Yiddish
    ייִדיש
  • Yoruba
    Yorùbá
  • Zulu
    isiZulu

Frequently asked

How this one take different from Duolingo or other language apps?
Those apps dey teach through exercises and tapping. This one na di other side: open conversation where you dey talk di language by yourself. No lessons, no levels, just pure talking, wey be di main thing wey most people dey miss.
Wetin if I make mistake?
You go make mistake, and dat one fine. Di partner understand imperfect speech and e go just weave di correct one inside im reply, like how better friend for correct you. You go catch di correction without make e cut your flow or grade you.
I be beginner. E too early to start?
You only need small words, even just greetings and few phrases go do. Di partner go keep reply short and simple at first, and e go grow as you dey grow. Any word you no understand, just tap am to see di meaning.
E dey work for languages wey get different script?
Yes. For languages like Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi or Thai, tapped words and sentences go show romanization, for example pinyin for Mandarin, so you fit connect sound and text from day one.
I need to install app?
No. Practice mode dey work for any modern browser for your phone, tablet or laptop. Just sign up, allow microphone, and start to talk.

Ready to try practice talking?

Ten minutes of free translation you go get when you sign up.

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