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Foundations, now explained in your language
The grammar course only ever existed in English, which made it hardest to use for exactly the people who needed it most. It now comes in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Russian and Arabic — four or five languages you can study in each so far, with the rest on the way.
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The course now teaches the sounds, and the characters
Foundations taught you the alphabet and then went straight to grammar, so nothing ever mentioned that 你好 is said níhǎo, or where a Russian word takes its stress. Every course now has a pronunciation lesson — tone sandhi, Korean batchim, Japanese pitch accent, French liaison, Italian double consonants. Chinese and Japanese also gained lessons on 汉字 and 漢字, so you can work out a character you have never met instead of only recognising the ones you have.
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Course quizzes you can hear, and a Skip button
Every question used to be text in, text out — you could finish a whole course without once being asked to recognise a sentence by ear. Three new question types play the line instead of printing it: pick what you heard, type out what was said, or judge whether a sentence is right and correct it if it is not. Skip is there too — it shows you the answer and costs you the mark, so being stuck teaches you something instead of ending the session.
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Insights can now drill the grammar it flags
When Insights noticed that ser vs estar keeps catching you out, the practise button sent you to a vocabulary drill and forgot which grammar point it was. It now builds a round out of real questions on that exact point, drawn from units you have already worked through.
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Greek is coming back, built properly this time
The Greek course was an early prototype: it stopped at B1, had no level exams, and taught grammar borrowed from other European languages rather than anything Greek. It is down while we rebuild it around aspect, the four cases and the mediopassive. Every course now has to cover A1 through C2 before it will open, so you cannot walk into one that runs out halfway.
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Insights now tells you what to do about it
Your weak spots come with a read on why they are sticking and what to practise next, and the coach stays quiet rather than inventing advice when your data is too thin to say anything useful. Overdue counts and repeated leech warnings read correctly now too.
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Your own decks, studied six ways
Import a Quizlet or Anki export, or just paste a list — no file needed. Then study your own deck with Flashcards, Learn, Match, Speed and Listen, star the cards you keep missing, and export the whole thing back out whenever you like.
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Video subtitles now follow the spoken word
The transcript used to highlight a whole line at a time. It now tracks the individual word being said, so you can see exactly where you are in a sentence you only half-caught.
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Insights measures what you can do, instead of asking
Your level used to come from what you told us at signup. It now comes from how you actually answer — every question you attempt feeds a measured CEFR estimate, an error breakdown, and how long you take to recall a word.
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Vocabulary tiers you can finish
Frequency tiers are now fixed chunks of your language's word list, so a tier has a real end and finishing one means something. You can also test out of the next thousand words instead of grinding through what you already know.
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Real cover art for every shipped book
The 25 books in the shared library had generated placeholder jackets. They now carry the real scanned cover art, pulled from inside each EPUB.
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A warmer app, and navigation that holds still
The app now paints with the same type and colour as the rest of the site — a warm paper ground, Fraunces headings, and study text set apart from the interface around it. The sidebar and the mobile tab bar are also one definition now, so a section can't exist in one and go missing from the other.
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Install it like an app, and get a nudge in your timezone
Nekolingo now installs to your home screen and can send a push reminder in the evening — your evening, not the server's. Email still works if you'd rather have it there.
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Search every card you've ever studied
A card browser with typeahead across your frequency deck, your own saved cards, and the full dictionary — so you can check what a word's card actually says without waiting for it to come up in a session.
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Dictation: type the whole sentence
Multiple choice lets you recognise a word without being able to produce it. Dictation plays a sentence and asks you to write it out, marking word by word, with the blanks getting harder as you go.
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A shorter signup that actually places you
Onboarding went from nine steps to six, and telling us your level now routes you into a real placement test instead of being taken at your word. Place well and you skip the words you already know.
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AI subtitles when YouTube has none in your language
Video study got an immersive reader, a curated library, and dual subtitles. When a video has no track in the language you're learning, we generate one.
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Study any page you're already on
A Chrome extension that looks up words, explains them, and saves cards straight into your deck — on YouTube or on any page on the web. It handles Chinese and Japanese segmentation too.
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Nekolingo is live at nekolingo.app
The app moved to its own domain, with public pages for every language and course we teach.
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Community: ask, answer, and get corrected
A place to post in the language you're learning and have native speakers correct it, alongside themes for the app and a shared library of public-domain books to read.
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A Practice arcade, and analytics that forecast
Practice became a hub of distinct drills rather than a list of links, and Progress gained a review forecast, a retention curve, a study heatmap and a data export.
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Weekly leagues with promotion and relegation
Every week you're placed in a league with other learners. Finish near the top and you move up; finish near the bottom and you drop. Ten tiers to climb.
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A test written for the words you actually know
Pro members get a test generated from their own vocabulary and graded with an explanation for every answer — pick the length, and it scales to match.
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Nori, on every page, knowing where you are
The AI tutor moved into a side panel you can open anywhere. It can see what you're studying, explain the line in front of you, and save the answer as a note.
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Study from YouTube
Add a video and get synced subtitles, a tappable transcript, and word lookup that saves straight into your review deck. It remembers where you stopped.
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Insights: the words you keep getting wrong
Every answer feeds a ranking of your weakest words, which drives a dedicated weak-word review mode and gives Nori something specific to drill you on.
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Foundations: a grammar course to follow
A CEFR-ordered grammar path with quizzes, unit exams, and phrases that flow into your review deck — so vocabulary and grammar stop being two separate habits.
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XP, levels, streaks and leaderboards
Reviews earn XP, XP earns levels, and a daily streak keeps count of the days you showed up — with milestone achievements and a weekly board to measure it against.
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Read real books, and save words as you go
Upload an EPUB or open one from the shared library. Every word is coloured by how well you know it, tapping one gives you a definition, and saving it makes a flashcard that keeps the sentence you found it in.
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Changelog
What's new
Everything we've shipped, newest first. Sign in and the megaphone in the top bar will tell you when there's something you haven't read.
Last updated · August 2026