Chinese
Japanese
Spanish
French
GermanEvery word comes back right before you forget it
A word you know returns after days, then weeks. One you missed comes back the same day. Tap ✓ or ✕ and the app works out the rest, so ten minutes a day is enough.
5 in a row!
MiniglotMiniglotMiniglot is built like the apps you open without thinking, a card at a time, so opening it instead of them is easy. What you scroll is a language.
A word you know returns after days, then weeks. One you missed comes back the same day. Tap ✓ or ✕ and the app works out the rest, so ten minutes a day is enough.
5 in a row!What a word really means, how it is used, and the mistake learners make with it, with examples. In your language: English, French, German or Spanish.
Ask me!Short stories and whole graded books, written from the words you have learned, so you can actually read them. Tap a word you do not know to see it.
One more chapter!Real YouTube videos in the language you learn, with subtitles you can tap word by word and translate line by line.
Real Japanese!Chinese and Japanese characters taken apart: each piece, what it means and how it sounds. A character stops being a drawing to remember.
Like a puzzle!A full dictionary for every language, searchable by characters, pinyin, romaji or meaning, that works on a plane.
Found it!HSK for Chinese, JLPT for Japanese, CEFR for Spanish, French and German. Every list is here to read, and to download as a CSV file or an Anki deck.
Miniglot is an iPhone app for learning the vocabulary of Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French and German. New words come in a feed you scroll, like social media, and spaced repetition brings each one back just before you would forget it. Stories, books and videos then let you meet the words in context.
29,175 words, level by level: HSK 1 to 6 for Chinese, JLPT N5 to N1 for Japanese, and CEFR A1 to C1 for Spanish, French and German. Every word has its reading (pinyin, kana or IPA), its meaning and audio, and most have an example sentence. You can read every list on this site.
About two months at ten minutes a day. That is around 15 new words a day, plus the reviews spaced repetition schedules for the words you have already seen.
Miniglot is free to download, and learning the words is free. Some extras, like books beyond their first chapter, are part of optional paid plans.
No. There is no sign-up and no email: your progress stays on your iPhone.
Not yet. Miniglot is on iPhone, from the App Store.