Ready phrasesforreal life
A language app for living abroad. Phrases for the café, the shop, the landlord, and every word you catch, back right before you forget it.
- Para llevar
- Sur place ou à emporter ?
- Come, scusi?
- Etwas langsamer, bitte
- Тут чи з собою?
- Sorry, what was that?
- I swear I never wore it
- ¿Tiene el tique?
- Ça ne me va pas
- Vorrei restituire questo
- Haben Sie den Kassenbon?
- Чесне слово, воно як нове
Catch
Catch any word
Heard it at the counter, saw it on a sign. Five seconds, and it's yours.
From any screen. Let go, and the word is in.
Learn
Five minutes a day
The app picks today's words. You swipe through them. Try it: drag the card, or hold it to peek.
Each card says its word out loud, in your phone's voice. Say it back, the way you heard it.
- 5, 10 or 15 minutes a session
- No streaks. Miss a day, nothing breaks
- Sound for every word, in your phone's voice
Word, please is a vocabulary app for life in another language.
Take the phrases for the moments that make you freeze. Add every word you meet. It keeps bringing them back until you can say them without thinking.
Packs
Real moments, ready to say
No «colours», no «family». Each pack is one real moment, in the order it happens. Take it, and it's yours.
Spanish, written there. Not translated.
Barista, but make it local
A1
Return it like you never wore it
A2
You say
- Un cortado
- Para llevar
You'll hear
- ¿Qué te pongo?
- ¿Para tomar o para llevar?
Gets you out
- Perdona, ¿cómo?
- Más despacio
+ 14 more
Situations
The phrases for one real moment, in the order it happens.
- What's in it
- 15–25 short phrases: what you say, what you'll hear back, and what saves you when you didn't catch it.
- Who wrote it
- People who live there, checked by a native speaker. Written in each language, not translated.
- Good to know
- All 6 languages. On Free, one at a time: the next opens once you've mostly learned this one.
Most useful first
The words you'll meet most, before the rare ones.
- What's in it
- 3,000 words in five steps. Each step is only new words, the most common first.
- Why it works
- The first 1,000 words cover about 70% of what you read. All 3,000, about 95%.
- Good to know
- English for now: the steps are made for learners of English.
From people
Packs other learners made, and shared with everyone.
- What's in it
- Whatever they needed: the gym, a flat viewing, the kindergarten pickup.
- When you take one
- You get a copy as it is today. It is yours to change; what the author adds later stays theirs.
- Share your own
- One switch on your pack, and others can take it too.
Your own
Your words, under any name you like.
- How
- Catch a word, then tick the packs it belongs to. Or make a new one right there.
- Labels, not folders
- One word can sit in several packs. Nothing moves, nothing is copied twice.
- Good to know
- Every word in every pack comes back in Learn, a few new ones a day.
How it learns
Built on how memory works
Not on hope. Every rule in the app comes from research on learning words.
- ~700Mreal reviews taught the scheduler (FSRS) when you are about to forget
- 20–30%fewer reviews than the classic method, for the same memory
- 90%how sure you are of a word when it comes back. Sooner wastes your time, later it's gone
The method, in four rules
Each one from research on how we remember words. Scroll, and they turn one by one.
Try to bring the word back before you see it.
That small effort is what makes it stay. Reading the answer straight away feels easier, and fades faster.
In the appThe card asks first. The answer shows only while you hold it.
Each word comes back right before it would slip.
Tomorrow, then in a few days, then in a week, then in a month. Sooner wastes your time. Later, it is gone.
In the appYou never plan it. Learn has today's words ready.
A new word starts easy and gets harder as it holds.
First you pick its meaning from four. Then you recall the meaning, then the word itself, then you use it in a sentence.
In the appThe dots on each card show how far a word has come.
Words from your own day stay better than any list.
A word you caught comes with a place and a moment: the café, the sign, the landlord. That is what memory holds on to.
In the appPull down on any screen, say the word, and it is in.
6 languages.
Any direction.
- Hello, English
- Hola, Spanish
- Bonjour, French
- Hallo, German
- Ciao, Italian
- Привіт, Ukrainian
Learn any of them from any other.
Price
Start free. Go Local when it clicks.
No ads, ever. Free has no end date. Local takes away the queue: as many cards, packs and languages as you like.
Free
$0
forever
- Catch as many words as you want
- 25 new cards a week
- One ready-made pack at a time
- 1 language
Local · yearly −58%
$2.08
a month, billed $24.99 a year
- 7 days free, reminder on day 5
- No weekly limit on new cards
- As many packs at once as you like
- Every language
Local · monthly
$4.99
a month, cancel any time
- Everything in yearly
- No trial
US prices. The App Store shows yours.
