Lingonaut - To Teach and Not to Profit

Why Lingonaut

Forums, discussions, It's all coming back.

All the features you missed and some new ones too! Sentence discussions, Forums and the tree system are back and here to stay.

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Built to Teach, Only to Teach

Lingonaut has been crafted from the ground up to be fun and educational, without sacrificing one for the other.

Delve into the language as locals do, picking up essential phrases and cultural insights, with useful and informative lessons and exercises which help you pick up and hold onto knowledge, not to keep user retention up.

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Learning Made Fun (& Effective too!)

Earn experience, trophies & achievements to show off to your friends and the world, as proof of your progress!

Climb the leaderboards, challenge your friends, race against the clock and unlock new stories, themes and more!

Our singular goal is to make language education free, accessible and effective, not to drive revenue and profit at the cost of everything else.

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We Learn Best Together

Just like languages, Lingonaut is focused on the human part. It includes sentence discussions, forums, and leaderboards to keep you motivated!

Don't understand why an answer is incorrect? Have an alternative interpretation for a sentence or word? Sentence discussions and forums allow you to discuss it with your fellow Lingonauts and push changes or corrections too!

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Steered by you!

Rest assured that your learning experience won't be subject to A/B testing or surprise sweeping changes to how Lingonaut and your learning, works.

We keep open a two way feed of communication with Lingonauts on Reddit, Discord and the Lingonaut forums, so only things you want changed are changed to make them better for you, not to drive up revenue growth.

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Made by People, Not AI

Passionate volunteers with an intimate knowledge of the language you're trying to learn make our courses actually useful in the real world. Cutting out AI from the course-building process means that what you learn is quality, and not just padded out with quantity.

Learning a new language is better when the exercises make sense!

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Privately Held, Patreon Funded

By being privately held & not a public company, we're not being funded by ads or investors. There's no conflicting interests between having to make money, and making the user experience for Lingonauts truly special.

We only answer to you, not shareholders.

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Free Forever

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Ads or Paywalls

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Community Love

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Mission: Teaching

Meet the Crew

Your Companions on This
Cosmic Journey

Every Lingonaut is guided by our colourful cast of characters aboard the LSS Nautilus! From Captain Tyson to Spaceman Jim and Speck the alien! Each character brings personality and cosiness to your learning adventure.

Patrons even get to submit their own original character to join the crew! You can swap out your teammates with different ones from the Shop any time and create your own personal roster.

Meet Everyone

Our Mission

Education Should be
For Everyone, Not Paywalled

Language learning apps have become bloated with ads, paywalls, and engagement tricks designed to extract money rather than teach effectively.

Lingonaut was built as an alternative to all that. We're volunteers who think everyone should have access to high quality language learning - without manipulation or corporate interests poisoning the well!

Proudly European

Hosted and Registered in the UK & EU, Lingonaut follows much stricter EU law on privacy and monetisation.

Open & Transparent

Our roadmap, progress, and decisions are all public for anyone to see.

To teach, not profit.

Every feature is designed to help you learn quickly and effectively, not to keep you hooked on the app or boost revenue!

CREATONAUT

Creatonaut

The Cosmic Workshop for
Course Creators

Creatonaut is our browser-based course creation studio where Translatonauts (that's you!) craft the language courses that power Lingonaut. Build structured lessons with 11 different exercise types, from flashcards to audio. If you want to build or contribute to an official Lingonaut course, join the Launchpad!

11 Question TypesLocal & PrivateFree to UseOpen to Everyone

Launch Studio Launchpad

Join the Community

Where to find us

Be part of the crew that's rebuilding language education together.

We're still under construction!
Watch this space

Follow our blog and BlueSky or look at our roadmap for up-to-date, well, updates!

Roadmap Support on Patreon

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