Read, then listen, then speak
LangPepp sprinkles the language you're learning into what you already read. A few words change. The sentence still makes sense. You work out the rest.
Tap a word to hear it. Say it back, and see each sound marked. There is no lesson, and nothing asks you to stop reading.
No account. Offline after the first download. Everything stays on your device.
A sentence you were going to read anyway
She bought fresh at the market this .
chleb means bread. poranek means morning.
How peppering works
Every so often, one word on a page you were reading anyway appears in Polish or Norwegian instead of English. The sentence around it still makes sense, so you work out what the word means. Working it out is what makes it stick.
Common words on the page swap into the language you're learning. The rest of the sentence stays yours.
Tap a word to hear it, spoken by a voice already on your device, at full speed or half speed.
Say the word back. LangPepp marks each sound, on the device, and offers a short tip.
Every language pack follows the real frequency order of the language, the way a child meets words. The first words you see are the ones that actually turn up. LangPepp keeps your place in that order, instead of sending you round in circles.
The rankings come from large public word-frequency lists: film and TV subtitles, plus a wide mix of sources from Wikipedia to news. Translations come from open dictionaries such as Wiktionary.
The word stays inside your sentence, so the sentence teaches the meaning. You were going to read the page anyway.
The Word Card
Tap or hover a peppered word. The card shows the word large, its English meaning, and Sona — a plain-English pronunciation you can read on day one.
Sona is not IPA, and that is deliberate. Anyone who reads English can read it. Hyphens split the beats. Capitals mark the loud beat. Arrows (↗ ↘ →) show pitch where the tune matters, as in Norwegian. The card labels Sona “approx.” You can also show IPA beside it, if you already read the phonetic alphabet.
The little chili on the card is Peppy, a companion who reacts while you listen and speak. Peppy is not the logo. The logo is the shaker.
Polish · woman
ko-BYEH-tah
Norwegian · woman · approx.
kveenuh ↗↘
The word, large enough to tap. The English meaning. Sona, marked approx. A voice already on your device, full speed and half speed, and the accent you prefer.
Spoken audio uses those on-device voices. Most desktops have Polish and Norwegian voices. Some phones have no Norwegian voice, so the card does not promise Norwegian audio on every phone. Sona and the meaning are still there.
Say it back
Record yourself saying the word. LangPepp marks each sound against it, and gives you a tip you can use on the next try.
For example, after saying kvinne
Good — 82%
Try holding the “nn” a touch longer.
Tone 2 shown for guidance — not scored. For Norwegian, tone is guidance only.
Scoring runs on the device. The recording is never uploaded, never kept after the card closes, and never sent anywhere. The microphone is open only while you record, and you can switch it off completely.
On a phone, speaking is scored in the LangPepp app. A word card in Firefox can open the app on that one word.
Practice Studio
Short everyday situations, woven from words you have already seen while reading. You read the line, press listen, then practise the words.
Every line is written and checked by a human. Nothing is generated on the fly. It works offline.
A first line might be Cześć, “Hi”, or Dziękuję, “Thank you.” New situations open as you meet more words.
Your pace
There is no lesson, and no twenty minutes a day. You turn it up when it feels easy, and down when it doesn't. Nothing asks you to stop reading.
Try it on a short passage
Every I make , drink a glass of , and step out the door into the street. The sun is already up, and a friend waves from the house across the road.
Tap a peppered word to see its meaning.
3 words in this passage, up to everyday.
Subtle blends peppered words into the page's own type, with a quiet dotted underline. Highlight puts them on a soft chip so they're easy to spot.
You can turn peppering off for a single website. Hold a key, hover any word, and see it in the language you're learning. Or paste song lyrics, or any text, and pepper that.
An optional daily goal, such as three words a day. A streak with rest days, so a missed day doesn't wipe it. One optional quiet reminder line. No push notifications, ever.
A collection keeps the words you've met. Yours to keep — nothing here is a race. Short facts travel with the language too, such as Polish's seven grammatical cases.
Private by design
The word lists, the picking and the pronunciation scoring all run locally. There is no account. No text, history or audio leaves the device.
Peppering, the Word Card and speaking are scored where you are. Nothing is sent off to be processed.
There is nothing to sign in to. The add-on and the app each keep their own record on their own device.
It works offline after the first download, including Practice Studio and the word lists.
The microphone is open only while you record. You can switch it off completely, and the recording is not kept after the card closes.
Where it runs
You don't need both. The add-on and the app each work alone, and each keeps its own record on its own device.
Peppers the pages you browse. The full Word Card, listen and speak. Tested on Mac and Linux.
Get the Firefox add-onStore link coming
The same add-on on your phone. A word card can hand a single word to the LangPepp app when you want speaking scored there.
Get the Firefox add-onStore link coming
A reader you paste into — an article, a link or a text file. This is where speaking is scored on a phone.
Get the Android appStore link coming
A word card in Firefox can open the app on that word, as in “Practise ‘kobieta’ in the app.” Only the word travels: no page, no history, no account.
Listing links are not live yet. The buttons above are where the Firefox Add-ons listing and the Android download will go.
Coming
The extension builds for Chrome. A store listing is not live, so this site does not link to one.
Languages
Both are fully supported. They suit people who are moving to Poland or Norway, who have a partner or family there, or who are heritage learners.
kobieta woman · ko-BYEH-tah
Featured, and fully supported, including the Word Card, speaking, and Practice Studio.
kvinne woman · kveenuh ↗↘
Featured, and fully supported. Pitch is shown on the card as guidance, and it is not scored.
Coming
Request a language from inside LangPepp. The add-on already asks. A public contact for the same request will be published with the contact address.
Spoken audio uses the voices already on your device. Most desktops have Polish and Norwegian voices. Some phones have no Norwegian voice, so Norwegian audio is not available on every phone. The meaning and Sona are there either way.
Coming
In testing now. Not in the product yet. Nothing in this list is something you can switch on today.
Coming
A larger English to Polish list: every English word with a single Polish equivalent, about 92,000 words, ranked by how common they are.
Coming
Translation of each sentence on the device, using Mozilla's open-source offline translator, Bergamot, so a peppered word takes the right grammatical form. “I can” becomes mogę.
Coming
Light, Medium and Heavy: roughly one word in ten, one in five, and one in three of the page. Today, the two sliders do this job.
Coming
Learner-aware words that move further down the list as you learn them, so you are not stuck on the same top words.
Questions
No. Sona is a plain-English respelling, so anyone who reads English can say the word on day one. Hyphens split the beats, capitals mark the loud beat, and arrows show pitch where the tune matters.
The card labels it “approx.” You can also turn on IPA if you already read it. Sona is the default because IPA is not.
The word lists, the picking and the pronunciation scoring run on your device. It works offline after the first download.
Spoken audio uses the voices already on your device. If a voice is missing, the card still shows the word, the meaning and Sona.
Only while you choose to record, and only if the microphone is switched on. The recording is never uploaded, never kept after the card closes, and never sent anywhere.
You can switch the microphone off completely. Scoring, when it runs, stays on the device.
Most desktops have Polish and Norwegian voices. Some phones have no Norwegian voice, so Norwegian audio is not available on every phone.
LangPepp does not download a voice for you. It uses what the device already has. The card still shows Sona either way.
No. Each works alone, and each keeps its own record on its own device.
On Android, speaking is scored in the LangPepp app. A word card in Firefox can open the app on that word. Only the word travels: no page, no history, no account.
Chrome: coming. The extension builds for Chrome. A store listing is not live, so there is no store link on this site.
No. Rest days cover a day you don’t read, so a break never wipes your streak. The daily goal is optional — three words a day is only an example.
There are no push notifications, ever. One optional quiet reminder can sit inside the add-on.
There is no lesson and no test. You read what you were going to read. Practice Studio is there when you want the words you’ve met spoken inside a short, human-checked phrase.
No. LangPepp is not a chatbot, and it is not a tutor in the cloud. Lines in Practice Studio are written and checked by a human. Nothing is generated on the fly.
The point is the opposite: on your device, from open word lists, in the reading you already do.
