A language gym with an opponent.
SS4 Language Model (SLM) is a place to learn words in English, Chinese, Yoruba, Spanish, French and Japanese, then test them against other people in short live games.
What we believe
- Practice should feel like playing
- Vocabulary sticks when you use it under a little pressure. A duel gives you a reason to come back, and a rating shows you're getting better.
- Fair before fun
- Both players see the same questions on the same clock. Ratings use Glicko-2, Speed and Classic are rated separately, and games that end before they really start don't count.
- Free means free
- No ads, no subscriptions, no paid boosts. Nothing you can buy makes you rank higher.
- Honest numbers
- Every count, rating and record you see comes from real games and real word lists. If there's nothing to show yet, the app says so.
What's inside today
- 505,172 words in 6 languages
English, Chinese, Yoruba, Spanish, French and Japanese, each in its own levels: HSK for Chinese, JLPT for Japanese, CEFR for Spanish and French, and estimated levels for Yoruba.
- 118,590 example sentences
Real sentences with English translations, split into words for the sentence-building puzzles.
- Live duels
Rated and casual, with challenges, rematches and full game reviews.
- A review deck
Spaced repetition that brings each word back right before you'd forget it.
- Teams and communities
Team Battles, community feeds and group chats.
- More languages
Igbo, Hausa, German, Korean and others are being prepared. Each opens when its word list is complete.
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