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Games that make you produce it

Recognition is easy and useless: you know a word when you can say it without the English in front of you. These games take the English away. Everything is scored in your own browser — no account, no streak guilt-trip, just a list of the words you keep getting wrong.

176 concepts have a picture, across 14 sets. Sound comes from the site's own synthesiser; the speaking game uses your browser's speech recognition where it exists (and lets you type where it doesn't).

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Answer one question to start a streak.
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Get 15 of them right
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Play 2 different games
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🎙️Say it

Hold a picture, say the word out loud. Wrong buzzes and stays; right dings and fades away. Hints when you're stuck.

needs: microphone

🎧Hear it

The synthesiser reads a word; you pick the picture it named. The receptive twin of Say it.

needs: sound

🔗Match

Picture to written word, six pairs at a time. The reading drill.

needs: nothing

👂Ear trainer

Minimal pairs: /y/ vs /u/, ejective vs aspirated, Cantonese long vs short a. Hear the difference before you try to make it.

needs: sound

🔁Your mistakes

The words you actually got wrong, weakest first — drilled by ear or by voice. Two right in a row and a word drops out.

needs: sound (and a microphone for the speaking half)

✍️Write it

Hiragana, katakana and kanji: read the character, pick the character from its sound, or trace it by hand over a guide.

needs: nothing

📈Which tone?

One syllable, six Cantonese tones (or four Mandarin ones). Name the pitch you heard — clean from the synthesiser, or messy from a real voice.

needs: sound

🔤Letter drill

A Georgian, Greek or Arabic letter appears — name its sound. Or a Chinese key: name its meaning.

needs: nothing

Your progress

Nothing recorded for this language yet — play a round and your weak words will collect here.

Share your progress

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