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Foreign Languages
Four languages. A thousand ways to connect. Explore words, phrases and everyday conversations, listen to each one and keep track of what you learn.
Choose a language
Every card opens that language’s tutorial: words, phrases and conversations, each with a voice you choose and a tick you keep.
Spoken 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.
Mandarin 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.
The 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.
The language of Portugal and Brazil — and, closer to home, of Mozambique on Zimbabwe's eastern border and of Angola.
One of SADC's official languages alongside English and French, and a Romance language that opens the door to Spanish, French and Italian.
The words, the phrases and the conversations are open to everyone. Sign in to keep your progress and carry Foreign Languages on your dashboard.
The tutorial is built and the content is being written into it language by language. A section with nothing in it yet says so plainly rather than spinning — and each language keeps its starter pack, ready to use this afternoon.