Language learning
Grammar, vocabulary and exercises for learning a human language.
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- Assess my language level
Runs an adaptive placement check across grammar, vocabulary, reading and a short writing sample, then estimates a CEFR level with evidence and next skills. For choosing materials or a course.
- Build a vocabulary list
Builds a themed vocabulary list for a CEFR level with gender, collocations and example sentences, plus an Anki-ready import block. Use when starting a new topic.
- Coach pronunciation
Coaches the pronunciation of words or sounds with IPA, mouth-position tips, minimal pairs and a practice ladder from sound to sentence. Use when a sound keeps coming out wrong.
- Correct my sentences
Corrects a learner's sentences in a target language, explains each error briefly at their CEFR level and gives a natural version. Use for writing practice and homework checks.
- Create a listening exercise
Writes a CEFR-levelled listening exercise with a natural dialogue script for text-to-speech or a partner, pre-listening vocabulary, questions, a dictation and an answer key.
- Create a shadowing script
Creates a shadowing script at the learner's level with stress, linking and intonation marks, chunked for repetition, plus a self-check routine. For learners improving fluency and accent.
- Design a communicative language activity
Designs a communicative classroom activity for language teachers, such as an information gap, role play or task, with level, target language, instructions, timing and an error-correction plan.
- Diagnose recurring language errors
Analyses several samples of a learner's writing or speech transcripts to find recurring error patterns, ranks them by impact and builds a two-week remediation plan.
- Distinguish confusing words
Explains the difference between words learners mix up, such as por and para, kennen and wissen or since and for, with a rule of thumb, contrasting examples and a short test.
- Explain a grammar point
Explains one grammar point of a language by contrast with the learner's native language, with common errors and a short exercise. Use when a rule keeps tripping you up.
- Explain a phrase in context
Explains a phrase, idiom or slang term as used in context, covering literal sense, meaning, register, regional use and natural alternatives. Use when a dictionary is not enough.
- Explain politeness and register
Explains formality and politeness systems such as tu and vous, du and Sie, keigo or honorifics, when to switch, common blunders, and one message rewritten at each register.
- Explain a word's origin
Explains a word's etymology, how its meaning shifted over time, related words across languages and a memory hook, marking uncertain and folk etymologies clearly as such.
- Generate grammar drills
Generates a mixed set of cloze, transformation and translation drills for one grammar point, graded by level, with an answer key. Use to practise a rule after learning it.
- Gloss an authentic text
Explains an authentic text such as news, a song or a letter sentence by sentence at the learner's level, covering vocabulary, grammar, idiom and cultural references, then checks comprehension.
- Grade a language-exam writing task
Marks a language-exam writing task (IELTS, TOEFL, DELE, DELF, Goethe and similar) against official criteria with an estimated band, corrections and a rewritten model paragraph.
- Language study session track
Runs a 45-minute language study session from review warm-up through new input, controlled practice and free production to a recap of words to keep, checking in after each step.
- Language teacher
Acts as a structured language teacher who sets a lesson goal, presents, practises and checks, stays at the learner's CEFR level and recycles earlier material. For learners who want lessons.
- Learn survival phrases
Builds a crash course of about 60 phrases for a trip or move, covering greetings, directions, food, shopping and emergencies, with pronunciation and the replies you are likely to hear.
- Learn a new writing system
Teaches a new script such as kana, hangul, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari or Greek in small sets with mnemonics, shape notes, practice words and spaced review. For beginners facing a new alphabet.
- List false friends between two languages
Lists false friends and partial cognates between a learner's native and target languages for a theme, with real meanings, contrasting example pairs and a quick self-test.
- Mine sentences for flashcards
Turns sentences from shows, books or chats into i+1 flashcards with a cloze, translation, grammar note and pronunciation hint, skipping any sentence with more than one unknown.
- Plan heritage language learning
Plans learning for a heritage speaker who understands the family language but struggles to speak, read or write it, building on what they already have instead of starting from zero.
- Plan language certificate preparation
Plans preparation for a named language certificate such as DELE, DELF, Goethe, JLPT or TOEFL, section by section, with format facts to verify, strategy and a weekly schedule.
- Plan language learning to a CEFR goal
Creates a weekly study routine to reach a CEFR goal by a date, balancing input, speaking, writing and review, and says plainly if the goal is unrealistic. Use when starting or resetting.
- Play a language adventure
Runs a choose-your-path story in the target language at the learner's level, with glossed new words, choices that need short written replies and gentle corrections along the way.
- Run a daily language journal
Runs a short daily journaling session in the target language with a level-appropriate prompt, then corrects the entry with brief explanations and a natural rewrite to study.
- Teach a language to a child
Plans playful second-language activities for a child by age, with songs, routines, games and picture books, a weekly rhythm and tips for bilingual homes. For parents raising bilingual kids.
- Write a graded reader
Writes a short story at a CEFR level that recycles the words a learner is studying, with a glossary and comprehension questions. Use for reading practice that fits your level.