About

Linguin is a private space to learn a language by actually using it. Look things up, save the words you want, practice them, and speak out loud. 120+ languages, and nothing you do here follows you around the web.

Most tools push you toward a dictionary that reads like a robot or a chat bot that answers a small question with an essay. Linguin goes the other way: quick answers, examples from real usage, and room to get things wrong in private.

Dictionary

Look up any word or phrase across 120+ languages, and you get every meaning it carries rather than just the first. Real examples, synonyms, usage notes, and human-quality pronunciation. Slang, brand names, and cultural senses are in there too, as long as people actually use them. The word itself is the easy part. Knowing where it fits is harder, and that is what each entry is built around.

Your dictionary

Anything you look up, you can save. Those words become your own collection, the vocabulary you care about, in one place and ready to practice.

Exercises

Match words to their meanings and back again, using the words you saved. The rounds are short and repetitive, and they run on your list instead of a generic one. That repetition is most of what makes a word stick.

Talk

Chat by text or speak out loud, in any language, on any topic you pick, at your own pace. Nothing counts down, and no one is waiting for you to finish a sentence. The conversation meets you at your level and keeps you talking instead of correcting every rule. And it works by voice, not only text.

Progress

Every conversation ends with honest, specific feedback: what worked, what did not, and what to try next time. It builds up over weeks, so your progress is something you can see rather than guess at.

Translation

This is more than a machine swapping one word for another. Linguin proofreads its own output, checks the phrasing against a live web search so it matches how people actually write today, and rewrites anything that still sounds like a manual. Ask for a quick translation, or a deep one when the text is worth the extra care. It keeps the context and the shades of meaning instead of flattening them.

Subscription

One subscription opens all of it. Start free, and move up when you want more talk time. The plans and their limits are on the pricing page.

API

The same dictionary and translation are there to build on. It is self-serve, you pay per word, and there are published SDKs for Python and JavaScript. Details are on the API page.

Privacy

This is your private room. Be blunt, be wrong, be curious, then delete it when you are done. Nothing is tied to your name, nothing is sold, and none of it turns up chasing you later on YouTube or Amazon. It is not Google.

Built by someone who learned a second language the hard way and wanted the tool that should have existed.