Learn languages with Pip
Your friendly lingonberry guide to a language you actually use.
Translate a paragraph, take a dictation, have a conversation, fill in the missing words, arrange a word bank, or read a passage and answer questions on it. Every exercise is written for your level, and every answer comes back with feedback that explains itself — not just a score.
Many ways to practise
Most apps test recognition. Lingoberry asks you to produce the language — write it, reconstruct it, or speak it. Some exercises go deep with feedback; others are quick drills for when you have five minutes.
Conversation
Pick a scenario and talk it through with Pip in character — a market stall, a hotel check-in, a neighbour's doorstep. Real back-and-forth, then a full breakdown of what you said and how to say it better.
Translation
Pip writes a short paragraph on a topic you choose and you translate it. You get back a corrected version, a breakdown of grammar and word choice, and a note on whether it sounds natural to a native speaker.
Reading
A passage at your level followed by comprehension questions — the exercise that shows whether you understood the text or just recognised the words.
Dictation
Listen to a sentence and type what you hear. Scored word by word, so you can see exactly where your ear slipped — the endings, the articles, the words that run together in speech.
Fill in the blank
A sentence with words removed, and a hint of the base form when you need one. Good for drilling the endings a language expects you to get right without thinking.
Word Bank
Reconstruct a translation by tapping word chips into the right order. No typing required — just recognition and word order. The bank may include extra distractor words to keep you honest.
See it in action
Pip writes a paragraph on any topic you choose. You translate it. The feedback breaks down grammar, word choice, and naturalness — not just a score.
How a session goes
Three steps, about ten minutes.
Pick your level and topic
Choose an exercise type, set the difficulty from A1 to C2, and name a topic if you have one in mind.
Do the exercise
Write it, say it, or type what you hear. Exercises are generated fresh each time, so you can't memorise your way through them.
Read the feedback
Corrections with reasons, not a bare score. Your streak and progress build up as you go, and First Steps lessons are there if you're starting from scratch.
Why learn with Pip?
Languages we can vouch for
We offer a short list of language pairs rather than every combination we could technically generate. Each one has a voice good enough to listen to and output we can actually check.
Real context
Whole paragraphs and passages, not isolated sentences — the way language actually arrives.
Feedback that explains itself
Not just right or wrong. Why the ending changed, why that word sounds stiff, and what a native speaker would have written instead.
Your level, per language
Content pitched to CEFR standards from A1 to C2. Learning two languages at different levels? Each one keeps its own.
What you can learn
Pick a language to learn and the language you'd like it explained in. You can keep several going at once and switch between them whenever you like.
The interface itself is in English for now. More pairs will follow as we can check their quality properly.
From the blog
Notes on languages, learning, and the odd corner of etymology.
Why English spelling is a crime scene
English spelling wasn't designed — it accumulated, like sediment. Five languages had a hand in it, and none of them cleaned up after themselves. Here's the forensic report.
Me vs. I: The grammar rule that trips everyone up
"Me and Sarah went to the store" — right or wrong? There's one simple trick that native speakers use instinctively: remove the other person and trust your ear. Once you know it, you'll never second-guess yourself again.
Where do the weekday names come from?
Say the English weekdays and you're invoking Norse gods; say the Spanish or French ones and you're invoking Roman ones. They're the same seven days, named twice — with a planetary puzzle, a saint who deleted the pagans, and one day nobody could translate.
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