Language learning
Grammar, vocabulary and exercises for learning a human language.
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- Accessible language learning coach
Acts as a language learning coach for disabled and neurodivergent learners that asks what works first, adapts methods and materials flexibly, and knows the exam adjustments to request.
- Adapt a coursebook unit to your learners
Adapts a language coursebook unit for a specific group, keeping its language aims while swapping irrelevant contexts, adding personalisation and cutting what will not land, lesson by lesson.
- Adapt language learning for dyslexia
Adapts how someone with dyslexia learns a new language, with multisensory methods, sound-spelling focus, pacing, assistive tools and exam access arrangements to ask about.
- Adapt language study for hearing loss
Plans learning a spoken language with hearing loss, hearing aids or a cochlear implant, using captions, visual phonetics, lip patterns, device listening, written-first routes and exam arrangements.
- Adapt language study for low vision
Builds a language study set-up for blind and low-vision learners with audio-first courses, screen reader and braille settings for the target script, accessible flashcards and exam adjustments.
- Analyse target language before a lesson
Analyses a grammar or lexical item for a lesson the way teacher training asks, covering meaning, form, pronunciation, anticipated problems for these learners and solutions, ready to paste into a plan.
- Assess my language level
Runs an adaptive placement check across grammar, vocabulary, reading and a short writing sample, then estimates a CEFR level with evidence and next skills. For choosing materials or a course.
- Build a personal phrasebook
Builds a personal phrasebook about the learner's own life, such as job, hobbies, family and routines, at their level, with pronunciation hints, swap-in variations and practice prompts.
- Build a placement test for a course intake
Builds a short written and oral placement test for a language school or community course, with items from A1 to C1, cut-off scores, an interview script and a scoring sheet.
- Build region-specific everyday vocabulary
Lists the everyday words that differ between the textbook standard and the region a learner lives in, by theme, with examples and what happens if they use the textbook word instead.
- Build a vocabulary list
Builds a themed vocabulary list for a CEFR level with gender, collocations and example sentences, plus an Anki-ready import block. Use when starting a new topic.
- Coach pronunciation
Coaches the pronunciation of words or sounds with IPA, mouth-position tips, minimal pairs and a practice ladder from sound to sentence. Use when a sound keeps coming out wrong.
- Predict your errors by comparing two languages
Compares a learner's native language with the target language to predict typical errors in sounds, grammar, word order and spelling, with short drills for the top problems.
- Convert a language lesson for online teaching
Converts one in-person group language lesson to a live online class, with breakout-room tasks, screen-shared materials, chat and poll checks, camera-off options and new timings, keeping the aims.
- Correct my sentences
Corrects a learner's sentences in a target language, explains each error briefly at their CEFR level and gives a natural version. Use for writing practice and homework checks.
- Create differentiated reading tasks
Builds support, core and stretch tasks on one shared text for a mixed-level language class, with pre-reading, a shared discussion task and answer keys, so everyone works on the same content.
- Create a listening exercise
Writes a CEFR-levelled listening exercise with a natural dialogue script for text-to-speech or a partner, pre-listening vocabulary, questions, a dictation and an answer key.
- Create a shadowing script
Creates a shadowing script at the learner's level with stress, linking and intonation marks, chunked for repetition, plus a self-check routine. For learners improving fluency and accent.
- Decode connected speech
Teaches how native speakers of a target language reduce, link and drop sounds in fast speech, shows slow and fast versions side by side, and runs decoding drills to follow real talk.
- Understand the language of household bills
Explains the vocabulary of a pasted utility, phone, council or rent bill in a target language line by line, from standing charges to arrears, with words to keep and questions for the provider.
- Understand transport announcements
Runs a listening-style drill of realistic station, train, bus, metro, airport or ferry announcements in a target language, asks what the traveller must do, and teaches the fixed formulas used.
- Understand voicemail messages
Runs a listening-style drill of realistic voicemails in a target language from clinics, schools, couriers, landlords and employers, where the learner picks out who, what, when and the action needed.
- Decode what colleagues really mean
Decodes indirect workplace phrases and real messages in the target language - what they usually signal, how strong, how to reply - then quizzes the learner on new examples.
- Design a communicative language activity
Designs a communicative classroom activity for language teachers, such as an information gap, role play or task, with level, target language, instructions, timing and an error-correction plan.
- Diagnose recurring language errors
Analyses several samples of a learner's writing or speech transcripts to find recurring error patterns, ranks them by impact and builds a two-week remediation plan.
- Discover a grammar rule from examples
Teaches a grammar point by guided discovery, giving example sentences, asking the learner to spot the pattern and state the rule, then testing and refining it with tricky cases.
- Distinguish confusing words
Explains the difference between words learners mix up, such as por and para, kennen and wissen or since and for, with a rule of thumb, contrasting examples and a short test.
- Drill numbers, prices and dates
Drills numbers, prices, dates, times and phone numbers in a target language with listening-style prompts, speed rounds and immediate corrections, then reports weak spots.
- Drill sentence translation into your target language
Gives sentences to translate into the target language one at a time, accepts every correct version, explains errors and steps difficulty up or down as the learner improves.
- Drill verb conjugations
Runs adaptive conjugation drills for chosen tenses and verb groups in any language, bringing back the forms the learner misses and explaining the pattern behind each mistake.
- ESOL tutor for adult newcomers
Acts as an experienced ESOL tutor for adult newcomers who builds lessons from learners' real lives, works with low print literacy, uses plain English and treats learners as capable adults.
- Move from home language to formal language
Shows a heritage speaker the formal or professional version of what they would say at home, side by side, explains each change without calling the home variety wrong, then practises switching up.
- Explain a grammar point
Explains one grammar point of a language by contrast with the learner's native language, with common errors and a short exercise. Use when a rule keeps tripping you up.
- Explain a phrase in context
Explains a phrase, idiom or slang term as used in context, covering literal sense, meaning, register, regional use and natural alternatives. Use when a dictionary is not enough.
- Explain politeness and register
Explains formality and politeness systems such as tu and vous, du and Sie, keigo or honorifics, when to switch, common blunders, and one message rewritten at each register.
- Explain a word's origin
Explains a word's etymology, how its meaning shifted over time, related words across languages and a memory hook, marking uncertain and folk etymologies clearly as such.
- Read a whole book in a new language
Runs a project to read a full book in a target language, from choosing a title at the right level and pre-teaching key words to chapter-by-chapter reading loops and a closing words-to-keep list.
- Generate grammar drills
Generates a mixed set of cloze, transformation and translation drills for one grammar point, graded by level, with an answer key. Use to practise a rule after learning it.
- Gloss an authentic text
Explains an authentic text such as news, a song or a letter sentence by sentence at the learner's level, covering vocabulary, grammar, idiom and cultural references, then checks comprehension.
- Grade a language-exam writing task
Marks a language-exam writing task (IELTS, TOEFL, DELE, DELF, Goethe and similar) against official criteria with an estimated band, corrections and a rewritten model paragraph.
- Write a real message in your target language
Helps a learner write a real message, such as one to a landlord, a colleague or for a post, in the target language by drafting together and explaining each choice at their level.
- Heritage language mentor
Acts as a mentor for heritage speakers that values the family language they bring, diagnoses their uneven skills, builds on home language and culture, and handles identity and confidence with care.
- Pronunciation coach for intelligibility
Acts as a pronunciation coach who listens for the sounds and rhythms that block intelligibility, prioritises the few that matter most and drills them with short, encouraging practice.
- Language assessment specialist
Acts as a language testing specialist who designs and reviews tests, rubrics and placement procedures for CEFR alignment, validity, reliability and fairness, and says when a test cannot do its job.
- Design a language course
Designs a language course in gated steps, from a needs analysis of the learners' real situations to CEFR can-do goals, a unit-by-unit syllabus, one sample lesson and an assessment plan.
- Language-learning strategist
Acts as a language-learning strategist who designs a learner's mix of input, output, spaced repetition and feedback, keeps them consistent, and diagnoses and fixes stalled progress.
- Language study session track
Runs a 45-minute language study session from review warm-up through new input, controlled practice and free production to a recap of words to keep, checking in after each step.
- Language teacher
Acts as a structured language teacher who sets a lesson goal, presents, practises and checks, stays at the learner's CEFR level and recycles earlier material. For learners who want lessons.
- Language teacher trainer
Acts as an experienced trainer of language teachers who mentors on aims, staging, teacher talk, error correction and learner-centred practice, gives one priority at a time and models techniques.
- Learn characters by their components
Teaches Chinese characters or Japanese kanji through their components, memorable stories, stroke-order notes and common compound words, in small sets with a review quiz.
- Learn English phrasal verbs
Teaches English phrasal verbs grouped by what the particle means and by topic, with natural example sentences, word-order rules, common mistakes and a short practice set.
- Learn the vocabulary of official forms
Teaches the labels, abbreviations and instructions on official forms in a target language, from surname and marital status to block capitals, with a mock form to fill in and an answer check.
- Learn the language for doctor and pharmacy visits
Teaches newcomers the words and phrases for doctor, dentist and pharmacy visits in the local language, covering booking, symptoms, body parts, forms and how to ask for an interpreter.
- Learn idioms in context
Teaches idioms on a theme through a short story that uses them naturally, then explains each one's meaning, register and region, with a plain alternative and a quick self-check.
- Learn a language to talk with grandchildren
Plans language learning for grandparents whose grandchildren speak another language, focused on child talk for praise, play, bedtime, food, songs and stories, with video-call routines.
- Build a job-specific language course
Builds a job-specific language course for roles such as nursing, hospitality or construction, with real workplace scenarios, key phrases, practice dialogues and safety-critical language.
- Learn pregnancy and birth vocabulary
Teaches the words and phrases for antenatal appointments, scans, labour, the maternity ward and newborn checks in a target language, with interpreter requests and a printable card. Not medical advice.
- Learn the language of your child's school
Teaches parents new to a country the language of school letters, parents' evenings, school apps and absence notes, with sample messages and phrases for talking to teachers.
- Learn how spelling maps to sound
Teaches how a language's spelling maps to its sounds, with the main rules in order of payoff, exceptions, minimal pairs and reading-aloud practice with self-checks.
- Learn survival phrases
Builds a crash course of about 60 phrases for a trip or move, covering greetings, directions, food, shopping and emergencies, with pronunciation and the replies you are likely to hear.
- Learn words for feelings and mood
Builds the vocabulary to describe emotions, mood, sleep and stress precisely in a target language, with intensity scales, idioms and sentence starters for a doctor, counsellor, friend or workplace.
- Learn a new writing system
Teaches a new script such as kana, hangul, Cyrillic, Arabic, Devanagari or Greek in small sets with mnemonics, shape notes, practice words and spaced review. For beginners facing a new alphabet.
- Language error correction rules
Standing rules for an assistant that tutors or chats with language learners, so it corrects only errors that matter, recasts during fluency practice, limits corrections and respects regional forms.
- Level down a text for a language learner
Rewrites an authentic text in the target language at the learner's CEFR level, keeping all the content, with a glossary of words kept above level and three comprehension questions.
- List false friends between two languages
Lists false friends and partial cognates between a learner's native and target languages for a theme, with real meanings, contrasting example pairs and a quick self-test.
- Keep a language from fading
Plans how to keep a language from fading after a course, a stay abroad or childhood use, with low-effort weekly habits, media, speaking opportunities and regular self-checks.
- Unlock vocabulary through cognate patterns
Teaches the regular sound and suffix correspondences between a learner's language and the target, such as -tion to -ción or English t to German z, so they can guess thousands of words safely.
- Mark student writing with correction codes
Marks a learner's text with correction codes instead of fixing errors, so the student self-corrects, and picks the three most important patterns plus one encouraging next step.
- Check if your language level fits a job ad
Turns a job ad's language requirement into the concrete tasks the job needs, lets the applicant self-check against sample tasks, and gives a gap plan and honest wording for the application.
- Mine sentences for flashcards
Turns sentences from shows, books or chats into i+1 flashcards with a cloze, translation, grammar note and pronunciation hint, skipping any sentence with more than one unknown.
- Name the grammar you already use
Shows heritage and fluent speakers the grammar behind sentences they already produce by ear, names the rules and terms they need for exams, teaching or writing, and tests where intuition fails.
- First 90 days of a new language
Guides a newcomer's first 90 days with the local language in gated steps, from a needs audit and survival phrase bank to rehearsed appointments, a level check, a course choice and a routine.
- Plan a conversation club session
Plans a volunteer-led conversation club session for mixed-level newcomers, with a daily-life theme, question cards at two levels, rotations and tips on gentle correction and quiet members.
- Plan heritage language learning
Plans learning for a heritage speaker who understands the family language but struggles to speak, read or write it, building on what they already have instead of starting from zero.
- Plan language certificate preparation
Plans preparation for a named language certificate such as DELE, DELF, Goethe, JLPT or TOEFL, section by section, with format facts to verify, strategy and a weekly schedule.
- Plan language learning to a CEFR goal
Creates a weekly study routine to reach a CEFR goal by a date, balancing input, speaking, writing and review, and says plainly if the goal is unrealistic. Use when starting or resetting.
- Plan a language lesson around a song
Plans a language lesson around a song the teacher picks, with prediction, gap-fill and ordering tasks, a language point, a pronunciation focus and a speaking follow-up, without reproducing lyrics.
- Plan language learning with a TV series
Plans learning a language with a TV series, with an episode routine, a subtitle strategy matched to level, sentence mining and a weekly review.
- Plan a literacy lesson for adult newcomers
Plans a lesson for adults learning to read and write for the first time or in a new script, built on the language of their real lives, adult phonics, sight words and oral work first.
- Plan a one-to-one online language lesson
Plans a one-to-one online language lesson for a tutor, with a warm-up, one target language point, communicative practice, an error-correction plan, materials and homework.
- Plan a pronunciation segment for a class
Plans a 15-20 minute class pronunciation segment on one feature, such as a sound pair, word stress, linking or intonation, with noticing, controlled practice, a communicative task and a quick check.
- Plan learning a sign language
Plans how to learn a sign language such as BSL, ASL or LSF, with Deaf-led classes, practice in the Deaf community, culture and etiquette, and milestones that fit the learner's hours.
- Plan a task-based language lesson
Plans a group language lesson in the task-based cycle, from pre-task and task to planning, report and a language focus drawn from what learners needed, with timings, monitoring notes and a fallback.
- Plan a project for a teen language class
Plans a 2-4 week project for teenage language learners, such as a podcast, survey or video guide, with a real audience, staged language input, group roles, milestones, a rubric and support.
- Plan vocabulary recycling across a unit
Plans how a unit's target vocabulary returns at spaced intervals across lessons, with retrieval starters, games and productive tasks, and a tracker showing when each word reappears and how.
- Plan a young learners' language lesson
Plans a 30-45 minute classroom lesson for children aged 4-10 learning a new language, with routines, TPR, a song, a story, a game and a movement or craft task, plus ideas for shy and lively children.
- Play a language adventure
Runs a choose-your-path story in the target language at the learner's level, with glossed new words, choices that need short written replies and gentle corrections along the way.
- Play vocabulary games in your target language
Plays quick vocabulary games in the target language, such as category races, odd-one-out, word chains and describe-and-guess, pitched at the learner's level and theme.
- Practise dictation in your target language
Runs dictation practice with sentences the learner hears through text-to-speech or a partner, then marks the written version word by word and explains each error and pattern.
- Practise summarising in your target language
Has the learner read a passage and summarise it in the target language, then checks meaning and accuracy, flags copied chunks, corrects errors and models a stronger summary.
- Practise the tones of a tonal language
Coaches the tones of Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese or Thai with clear descriptions, tone-pair drills, minimal pairs, sandhi or tone rules and a self-check routine.
- Practise a timed exam writing task
Sets a fresh writing task in the format of a named language exam, has the learner write it under time, marks it against the exam's criteria and coaches a rewrite of the weakest paragraph.
- Build reading and writing in a heritage language
Teaches a heritage speaker who speaks the family language to read and write it, starting from words they already say, mapping their sounds to spelling and using family-relevant texts.
- Practise sentence stress and intonation
Drills the rhythm, sentence stress and intonation of the target language with marked sentences, meaning contrasts and listen-repeat rounds, predicting problems from the learner's first language.
- Practise spelling out personal details
Drills spelling out and catching names, email addresses, postcodes, house numbers and dates of birth in a target language, with the local spelling alphabet, symbols and speed rounds.
- Read a Latin or Ancient Greek passage
Guides reading a Latin or Ancient Greek passage clause by clause with parsing, vocabulary and syntax notes, while the learner builds the translation step by step.
- Read local handwriting styles
Teaches how people in a given country write letters, numbers and abbreviations by hand, so learners can read notes from teachers, landlords, doctors and colleagues, with decoding practice.
- Reflect on a language lesson you taught
Guides a language teacher through a structured reflection on a lesson they taught, on what learners produced, pace, error correction and talk time, ending with two concrete changes for next time.
- Review a trainee's language lesson plan
Critiques a trainee language teacher's lesson plan against common observation criteria, from aims and staging to language analysis and checking learning, with ranked fixes and a tutor's questions.
- Review your vocabulary with spaced repetition
Runs a spaced review session on the learner's own word list, mixing recognition, recall and use in a sentence, and returns each word's next review date plus a flashcard export.
- Run a daily language journal
Runs a short daily journaling session in the target language with a level-appropriate prompt, then corrects the entry with brief explanations and a natural rewrite to study.
- Set up a tandem language exchange
Sets up a tandem exchange for one pair or a group programme, with matching, a 50/50 time split, task cards by level, kind peer correction, a reflection log and a plan for pairs that fizzle out.
- Teach a language to a child
Plans playful second-language activities for a child by age, with songs, routines, games and picture books, a weekly rhythm and tips for bilingual homes. For parents raising bilingual kids.
- Turn real-world material into a worksheet
Turns an authentic item such as a menu, timetable, bill or school letter into a levelled worksheet with scanning tasks, vocabulary, a role-play and a writing task, keeping the original intact.
- Untangle mixed-language sentences
Analyses sentences where a bilingual speaker mixes languages or uses calques, names each borrowed word or structure, gives the standard equivalent and register, and treats mixing as normal.
- Write concept-checking questions
Writes concept-checking questions for grammar or vocabulary and instruction-checking questions for activities, with expected answers and a timeline or visual where useful, for language teachers.
- Write a graded reader
Writes a short story at a CEFR level that recycles the words a learner is studying, with a glossary and comprehension questions. Use for reading practice that fits your level.
- Write a language progress report
Writes a language student's report from the teacher's notes and scores, with progress per skill against CEFR can-dos, evidenced strengths, two targets and a home tip, in plain words for the reader.
- Write a speaking assessment rubric
Writes a CEFR-aligned speaking rubric for one class task, with band descriptors markers can apply consistently, anchor performances, a marking procedure and a feedback comment bank.