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Each language gets the same three doors — sounds, words, grammar — and the grammar chapters share the same slugs, so you can read Articles in French, then jump to Articles in German and compare.

English · English

Spelling that lies, stress that matters, vowels that glide.

Germanic (West) · 43 sounds · 94 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

Français · French

Silent endings, nasal vowels, and the glue of liaison.

Romance (Gallo-Romance) · 36 sounds · 92 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

Español · Spanish

Five clean vowels and spelling you can trust.

Romance (Ibero-Romance) · 27 sounds · 36 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

Português · Portuguese

Nasal vowels that carry meaning, and unstressed vowels that vanish.

Romance (Ibero-Romance) · 35 sounds · 49 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

Deutsch · German

Long compounds, four cases, vowels with umlauts.

Germanic (West) · 43 sounds · 81 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

Italiano · Italian

Double consonants you must hold, every vowel pronounced.

Romance (Italo-Dalmatian) · 30 sounds · 54 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

ქართული · Georgian

An alphabet that never lies, ejective consonants, and verbs that carry the whole sentence.

Kartvelian · 33 sounds · 33 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

Русский · Russian

Fifteen pairs of hard and soft consonants, six cases, and vowels that vanish when unstressed.

Slavic (East) · 46 sounds · 84 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

हिन्दी · Hindi

Four ways to say a t, and a script that spells exactly what it means.

Indo-Aryan (Central) · 41 sounds · 38 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

普通话 · Mandarin Chinese

Four tones, no conjugation, no plurals — and characters that hide the sound entirely.

Sino-Tibetan (Sinitic) · 42 sounds · 83 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

廣東話 · Cantonese

Six tones, clipped final stops, and the same characters as Mandarin read completely differently.

Sino-Tibetan (Sinitic) · 42 sounds · 74 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

Tiếng Việt · Vietnamese

Six tones written straight onto the vowel, a spelling that hides nothing, and not a single ending to learn.

Austroasiatic (Vietic) · 35 sounds · 61 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

한국어 · Korean

An alphabet designed in 1443 that stacks its letters into syllables, three kinds of every stop, and verbs that end in politeness.

Koreanic · 34 sounds · 108 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

日本語 · Japanese

Three scripts at once, five clean vowels, and a pitch accent that quietly changes words.

Japonic · 31 sounds · 56 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

Bahasa Melayu · Malay

No tenses, no genders, and plurals you make by saying the word twice.

Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) · 32 sounds · 18 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

Türkçe · Turkish

Eight vowels that rhyme with each other, suffixes stacked like beads, and an alphabet written in 1928 to fit the language exactly.

Turkic (Oghuz) · 31 sounds · 32 spelling rules · grammar 12/12

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Grammar chapters, side by side

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Articles
the, a — definite and indefinite, and how they bend to gender and number.
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Nouns & gender
Does the language sort nouns into classes, and can you guess which?
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Plurals
How to make more than one.
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Pronouns
I, you, he/she/it, we, they — subject, object, and the formal 'you'.
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Present tense
Regular verbs now, and the handful of irregular ones you can't avoid.
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Negation
Saying no: where the 'not' goes.
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Questions
Yes/no questions and question words.
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Word order
Where the verb goes, where adjectives go, what moves and why.
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Past tenses
Finished vs ongoing, spoken vs written past.
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Future & conditional
Will, going to, would.
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Adjectives
Agreement, position, comparison.
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Prepositions
In, on, at, to — the small words that never translate one-to-one.
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