A language learner, for every language.

Language Learner is built around a single idea: every language in the world deserves a learner, and every learner deserves representation.

The big platforms teach the same thirty languages. We're interested in the other six thousand — the heritage tongues, the regional lingua francas, the languages spoken in homes, markets, and ceremonies across Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

Who this is for

For the person learning Spanish for work and Yoruba for their grandmother. For the traveler picking up Swahili before East Africa, and the diaspora kid finally studying Twi or Haitian Creole or Tigrinya. For polyglots, for absolute beginners, for anyone who has ever looked for their language on an app and not found it.

What we do

We profile languages from every region of the world, point learners toward the resources that actually exist for each one, and review the tools that make learning them possible — independently, and without favor.

Why it matters

A language is a way of seeing. When a language is overlooked, a way of seeing the world is overlooked with it. Representation, in language learning, is not a courtesy — it's the point.

A sister project: Heritage Languages

We also run Heritage Languages, an independent publisher of children's books in heritage and underserved languages — Swahili, Yoruba, Twi, Haitian Creole, Tigrinya, and many more. Apps build daily habits; books build a place for a language in the home. The two belong together.