Foreign Languages
Say something real on day one.
Four languages, each opening with a starter pack you can use straight away — greetings, the ten phrases that get you through a conversation, and the numbers.
- 4 languages
- Beginner friendly
- Speak from day one
Choose a language
Four ways to start
Every card opens its starter pack — what to say, how to say it, and what it means.
FrançaisFrench
Starter pack ready · Lessons in preparationStart with FrenchSpoken in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Canada, and across West and Central Africa.
An official language of the African Union and the United Nations — the widest-travelling second language on the continent.
中文Chinese (Mandarin)
Starter pack ready · Lessons in preparationStart with ChineseMandarin is the everyday language of mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore, and has more first-language speakers than any other.
China is a major trade, engineering and scholarship partner across southern Africa, and Mandarin is what opens those rooms.
DeutschGerman
Starter pack ready · Lessons in preparationStart with GermanThe everyday language of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and the most widely spoken first language in the European Union.
German universities charge little or no tuition, and German is the working language of a great deal of engineering and research.
KiswahiliSwahili
Starter pack ready · Lessons in preparationStart with SwahiliThe shared language of East Africa — Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
SADC adopted it as an official language in 2019, and it is a Bantu cousin of Shona and Ndebele, so a Zimbabwean learner starts on familiar ground.
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Where this module stands
Full guided lessons are being prepared — the starter pack is ready to use today. Nothing here is a placeholder: every phrase, number and fact on these pages is content you can take into a conversation this afternoon.