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๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Languages

Learn a language the way you learnt your first one

No child ever learnt to speak from a grammar table. They heard a phrase a hundred times, used it, were understood โ€” and only years later were told what a verb was. 13 languages here are taught in that order: sound, then phrase, then pattern. Every lesson gives you something you can actually say today.

How an organic course works

  1. Hear it. Every phrase carries a plain-English pronunciation. Say it out loud โ€” a language learnt silently is never spoken.
  2. Use it. Six real phrases a lesson, the ones a person actually needs in the first week.
  3. Notice the pattern. The rule appears only after you have already used it, so you recognise it instead of memorising it.
  4. Meet the people. A culture note, because a phrase used at the wrong moment is still a mistake.
  5. Practise small. Three tasks you can do in ten minutes, today, without a teacher.

Fifteen minutes every day beats three hours on a Sunday. Memory is built by returning, not by sitting longer.

European languages

Romance8 lessons

๐Ÿ—ผ French Franรงais

About 300 million people across France, Canada, Belgium, Switzerland and much of West Africa

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Romance6 lessons

๐ŸŒž Spanish Espaรฑol

About 490 million native speakers, second only to Mandarin โ€” Spain and almost all of Latin America

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Classical languages

Italic (Indo-European)6 lessons

๐Ÿ›๏ธ Latin Lingua Latina

No native speakers today, yet it lives inside sixty per cent of English vocabulary, all of science's naming, law, medicine and the Church

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Indo-Aryan6 lessons

๐Ÿ•‰๏ธ Sanskrit เคธเค‚เคธเฅเค•เฅƒเคคเคฎเฅ

Spoken daily by a small number and studied by millions; the source language of Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati and much of the vocabulary of Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam

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East Asian languages

Sino-Tibetan6 lessons

๐Ÿ‰ Chinese (Mandarin) ไธญๆ–‡ / ๆ™ฎ้€š่ฏ

About 920 million native speakers, the most of any language on earth

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Indian languages

Indo-Aryan6 lessons

๐Ÿช” Hindi เคนเคฟเคจเฅเคฆเฅ€

About 528 million speakers in India, and understood by many more through film and song

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Indo-Aryan6 lessons

๐Ÿšฉ Marathi เคฎเคฐเคพเค เฅ€

About 83 million, mainly in Maharashtra, Goa and the border districts of Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh

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Indo-Aryan6 lessons

๐Ÿ… Bengali เฆฌเฆพเฆ‚เฆฒเฆพ

About 265 million โ€” West Bengal, Tripura, Assam's Barak valley and the whole of Bangladesh. The sixth most spoken language on earth.

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Indo-Aryan6 lessons

๐Ÿฆ Gujarati เช—เซเชœเชฐเชพเชคเซ€

About 56 million โ€” Gujarat, Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and one of the most widely spoken Indian languages abroad

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South Indian (Dravidian) languages

Dravidian6 lessons

๐Ÿชท Tamil เฎคเฎฎเฎฟเฎดเฏ

About 83 million โ€” Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia, where it is an official language

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Dravidian6 lessons

๐Ÿ’Ž Telugu เฐคเฑ†เฐฒเฑเฐ—เฑ

About 96 million โ€” Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and a large diaspora. The most spoken Dravidian language.

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Dravidian6 lessons

๐Ÿต๏ธ Kannada เฒ•เฒจเณเฒจเฒก

About 44 million, chiefly in Karnataka, with inscriptions going back to the 5th century

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Dravidian6 lessons

๐ŸŒด Malayalam เดฎเดฒเดฏเดพเดณเด‚

About 35 million โ€” Kerala, Lakshadweep, Puducherry's Mahรฉ, and a very large diaspora in the Gulf

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๐Ÿ•‰๏ธ Sanskrit has its own home

The oldest of them all โ€” with the mantras, the verses, and an honest look at what chanting does and does not do.

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