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real vocab on your lock screen, every time you glance at your phone. no lessons to schedule, no streak guilt, no fake urgency. now with mandarin (simplified chinese) as language #10. ten languages: spanish, french, german, italian, dutch, russian, japanese, korean, portuguese, mandarin. a thousand cards per language. real words, real example sentences, the cultural notes a textbook leaves out. native pronunciation. all rotating on your lock screen while you live your life. how it works 1. pick a language. 2. add the lock screen widget. 3. unlock your phone like you already do. 4. a new word, sentence, and meaning every time. your brain does the work in the background. what's in it — ten languages, a thousand cards each — pinyin with tone marks for mandarin, hiragana + romaji for japanese, hangul + romanization for korean, cyrillic + romanization for russian — reading lessons that actually teach you the alphabet first — hangul, kana, cyrillic, pinyin tones — so you stop relying on romanizations — five practice games when you want to drill: word match, sentence builder, fill the blank, speed recall, reverse recall — real human-quality cultural notes: tone sandhi in mandarin, hoesik etiquette in korean, saudade in portuguese, jeitinho in brazilian culture, the 加油 / "add oil" cheer that has no english equivalent — calm, grown-up design. cream and deep purple. no cartoon owls, no shouting. free vs plus free forever: stage 1 of any language, all five practice games, the lock screen widget. wordwake plus unlocks all 101 stages in all 10 languages: $2.99/mo, $19.99/yr, $49.99 lifetime. family sharing on. no ads. no account required. who this is for adults who want to actually learn a language without making it a hobby that eats their evenings. people who learned the duolingo way and burned out. travelers, heritage learners, anyone who wants real fluency in real moments instead of fake fluency from a streak. honest about what we're not we don't make you fluent in 3 weeks. we don't gamify your time. we don't sell your data. we're a one-person studio building this carefully. learn the lazy way.
What's new · 1.7
mandarin is here. simplified chinese with pinyin tone marks. 1,010 cards across 101 stages. cultural depth: hot pot phrases, 春节 traditions, wechat etiquette, 996 work culture, the 加油 cheer that every chinese speaker uses and no english word translates. what's in 1.7.0 — mandarin in the language picker, paywall, settings, widget, tune feed — native zh-cn voice for pronunciation — pinyin with tone marks throughout (nǐ hǎo, not ni3 hao3) — tone sandhi explained on the cards where it actually happens — sentence builder uses word-boundary tiles, not character-by-character (你好 is one tile, not 你 + 好) so you see how mandarin builds meaning — ten cultural stages woven into the standard arc: tea + 干杯, hot pot, 春节, wechat life, 长辈 / family respect, 春运 / the great homecoming, 996 office life, 砍价 / bargaining, 成语 / four-character idioms, 敬语 / honorifics — widget fix: long multi-word terms now render fully on the lock screen widget (was a portuguese display bug, now handles every language cleanly) — ten languages total: spanish, french, german, italian, dutch, russian, japanese, korean, portuguese, mandarin still free: stage 1 in any language. plus unlocks all 101 stages everywhere. learn the lazy way.
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