Language learners
A list for every lesson, every topic, every textbook chapter: verbs, adjectives, food, family. Everything you've learned in one place, searchable, instead of scattered through notebooks you'll never open again.
A vocab notebook for learners and travellers
Your words.
Your lists.
Your voice.
MyVocab isn't a course, and it won't teach you a language. It's the tool you use while you learn one: build your own vocab cards and lists, record the people you learn from, and revise until the words stick.
Made for your phone, works on any device. 25 languages.
“I must have got through fifty textbooks learning Thai. What actually worked was the lists.”
Not another way to learn a language. A tool for the way you already do.
MyVocab started with someone learning Thai as a second language. Verbs one week, adjectives the next, a list for every lesson. When there was a trip to the temple, there was a vocab list for that trip too, because tying words to a day out is what makes them stick.
The textbooks went on a shelf, opened now and then to look something up. The lists got used every day. MyVocab is those lists, done properly: on your phone, in colour, with the real voice of whoever taught you each word.
How it works
Discover it. Record it. Revise it.
Three steps you'll repeat a thousand times, and that's the point. Repetition is how words move from your notebook into your conversations.
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1 Discover
Hear a word in a lesson, spot it on a menu, pick it up from a friend. Add it in seconds: the word in your language, in the language you're learning, how it sounds, and a note to jog your memory.
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2 Record
Hold up your phone and record your teacher, a friend or a local saying it, right on the card. Next time you're unsure, you hear exactly how they said it.
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3 Revise
Hide one side of every card. Say the word out loud or write it down, then tap to check. Do it on the bus, in a queue, before your next lesson.
Real voices on every word
Some words you can't learn from the letters.
Thai is tonal, and so are Vietnamese, Mandarin and Cantonese. Change the tone and you change the word. A spelling on a page won't tell you how it should sound. Your teacher's voice will.
- Record as many voices as you like on each card, each with the speaker's name
- Quick record and play straight from your list, no digging into menus
- Your recordings are private: only you can play them
ใกล้
glâi
near
vs
ไกล
glai
far
Same sounds to a beginner's ear, opposite meanings. One recording settles it.
Revise mode
Cover one side. Say it. Check it.
The oldest trick in language learning, built in. Try it: hide a side, then tap a blurred word to check yourself.
Thank you
ขอบคุณ
khàawp khun
Delicious
อร่อย
à-ròi
Spicy
เผ็ด
phèt
How much?
เท่าไหร่
thâo-rài
Who it's for
One tool, lots of ways to use it.
Everyone expects a language app to teach them. MyVocab works alongside whatever is teaching you: a teacher, a course, a textbook, a trip, a friend.
Travellers
Off to Vietnam? Switch language and start your own phrase book: the words you actually need, recorded by the people you met. You won't become fluent in a fortnight, but a few words in someone's own language always goes down well.
Lists that hold memories
Make a list for the temple visit, the cooking class, the night market. Words tied to a place and a day are the ones you remember, and the list brings the whole day back.
Schools and teachers Coming soon
A MyVocab of your own for your school: teachers add students, share each lesson's vocab with the class, and build up the vocab for a whole curriculum. More below.
Your own phrase book
Not fluent. Just friendlier.
Each language you learn keeps its own cards and categories, so your Thai stays Thai and your Vietnamese stays Vietnamese. Pick from 25 languages and switch whenever you like.
Ask the person at the market how to say it, record them saying it, and you've got a phrase book no shop sells: the words you need, in a real local voice.
Features
Made for vocab, and nothing else.
Vocab cards
The word in your language and the one you're learning, a phonetic spelling and notes, all in their own places.
Recordings
Record real voices on any card, as many as you like, with who's speaking. Play them back with one tap.
Revise mode
Blur either side of every card, then tap a word to check yourself.
Lists your way
Categories with their own colour and icon. A card can sit in as many lists as you like.
Pretty, on purpose
Colour your cards so they're easy to find and nice to look at. You'll open it more if you like how it looks.
Favourites and archive
Pin the tricky ones to the top, archive the ones you've mastered.
25 languages
Each language keeps its own cards and lists. Switch whenever you like.
Great on mobile
Add words and record voices on the spot, on your phone, wherever you are.
Why not a notes app?
You could use a notes app or a task board. It just wouldn't be the same.
MyVocabNotes apps & boards
Real voices recorded on each wordYesNo
Hide one side to reviseYesNo
Word, translation, phonetic and notes kept apartYesIf you set it up
Colourful cards and lists made for vocabYesPlain text
Separate cards for each languageYesNo
Works on your phoneYesYes
Coming soon
Better with friends.
Learning a language is social, so MyVocab is getting more social too. These are being built now.
MyVocab for schools Coming soon
The vocab for a whole curriculum, in one place.
Your school gets its own MyVocab at its own address, with its own logo. Teachers are the admins: they add their students, share the vocab from each lesson with the class, and build it up term by term into the vocab for a whole course.
- yourschool.myvocab.online, with your school's logo
- Teachers add and manage their students
- Share each lesson's cards with the whole class
- Students add their own words and recordings on top
Start the list you'll actually use.
Add your first word, record the person who taught it to you, and start revising today.
Start your vocab