What learners say about LingoBear
“Hands down one of the best language apps I've tried, love it.”
gayshouldbecanon
“Really cool way to build vocab breadth and depth on topics of interest! Especially love the explanation field which provides so much helpful context.”
vayabien
“I really think this will help language learners with motivation. It's great that you can type in your interest, and it creates a story/article for you. Well done!”
Chasing_toucans
“This is really cool! The UI is very intuitive and not annoying and the text it generated was interesting and the right level for me. This really is the first language tool I've seen in a while that's actually interesting and fresh.”
anonymous
“Just tried it out. This is Awesome! I'll be using it on my Xbox a lot I can foresee.”
michaeldross
“Loved it. This is the kind of thing that makes me excited about generative AI in the language learning space.”
ButterflyBitter888
Every word in your isiXhosa reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful for parsing the rich click consonant inventory.
Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh isiXhosa reading passage — from Xhosa amapiano music to Eastern Cape travel.
Xhosa (isiXhosa) is a Nguni Bantu language and one of the 12 official languages of South Africa, with around 19 million speakers — mostly in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Gauteng. It is the mother tongue of Nelson Mandela. The orthography was first developed by Scottish missionaries at Lovedale in the 19th century and uses standard Latin letters with no diacritics.
isiXhosa is famous for borrowing extensive click consonants from neighbouring Khoisan languages. There are three click 'places' — dental (c), alveolar (q) and lateral (x) — each combinable with five 'manners' (plain voiceless, aspirated, voiced, nasalised, breathy-voiced), giving 15 click consonants in total. The word Xhosa itself begins with a lateral click. LingoBear can teach you to recognise these in context.