Lingotopia

Lingotopia is a language-learning game about a girl who is shipwrecked on a strange island where no one speaks her language. To find a way home, you explore a handcrafted city and talk with its inhabitants, learning words one at a time to understand what they say.

Explore and learn

You click on objects in the environment to learn their words from your guide, and pick up more vocabulary by speaking with the city's inhabitants. Native-speaker voice recordings teach pronunciation. If you are learning a language with a different script, you can switch between its native and romanised forms at any time.

Words you have learned are translated when they appear in conversations. The game translates individual words rather than whole sentences, so you use what you know to work out word order and grammar. Its dialogue is tied to the setting and story, giving you reasons to decipher each sentence. You can learn several hundred words, and may find a way off the island as you become more familiar with the language.

Languages

The official languages are Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Russian, and Spanish. You can learn English through each of these. The game also offers over 20 unofficial languages, which have no voice recordings and whose translation accuracy is not vouched for.