OwnLingo.com

Learn the words that matter. Yours.

OwnLingo is for learners who live in the language on their own — videos, news, podcasts, books, travel, relocation and more. One place to save every word and phrase worth keeping, then learn it in extended context, for good.

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  • App Store
  • Google Play
  • Web
Why it exists

Why another vocabulary app

Because the course ends where the language begins.

You have finished various structured courses. Now comes the part you actually wanted — the language at full speed, on your own terms, whatever you choose to watch, read, hear or speak about. What holds you back is vocabulary.

  • 01
    Your words, not a syllabus.

    The list is yours. Extend it as your needs change, and drop anything you no longer want.

  • 02
    One word in, a whole family out.

    Save contribute and you also get contribution and contributor — even contributory. Every word arrives with its family and with its various meanings, so you meet it in every flavour and understand it for good.

  • 03
    You stay inside the language.

    Meanings, examples and exercises are written in the language you are learning — and so is the app itself. Nothing is routed through your own, so you stop translating in your head and start thinking in it.

  • 04
    Sentences worth learning.

    Every example sits at your level and sounds like language adults really use. Each sentence places the word in a situation it genuinely turns up in — its common contexts and collocations, a different one each time.

  • 05
    No hearts, no lives, no leagues.

    A wrong answer costs you one more repetition and nothing else. Nobody to beat, nothing to run out of.

  • 06
    A streak that forgives.

    Keep the daily habit if it helps you — and freeze it when life happens, without losing the last hundred days.

How it works

Three seconds to save. The rest happens without you.

  1. STEP 01

    Catch it in the wild

    Type the word the moment you meet it — subtitles, podcast, novel — however you heard it. Already keeping a list elsewhere? Paste it in or import the file.

  2. STEP 02

    Get back more than you typed

    It comes back as a full set of material — various meanings, real sentences, audio, the whole word family. One capture, several usable words.

  3. STEP 03

    Move it into active use

    Spaced repetition returns each word just before you would forget it, until it is active vocabulary.

Inside the app

Exercises that carry a word from first sight to active use.

A few examples, from a real English list at B1.

A first-contact exercise: the definition of contribute above a sentence with one gap, the correct option highlighted in green.
Start with the meaning, then put the word to work.
A fill-the-gap exercise on the word contributes, with the correct option highlighted in green.
Only one of four options really fits. Get familiar with the word, one form at a time.
A word-family exercise: four sentences whose gaps are filled by contribute, contribution, contributor and contributing.
Meet the family.

Languages and levels

Five languages, four levels.

Run more than one at a time — each keeps its own level and its own pace, and you can change either whenever you like.

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Italian

Levels

  • B1 Intermediate
  • B2 Upper intermediate
  • C1 Advanced
  • C2 Near-native

More languages are on the way.

Start

Begin with one word you keep forgetting.

Pick your language and level, then save the next word that stops you today.

Coming soon on

  • App Store
  • Google Play
  • Web

OwnLingo is in early preview.