Active recall
After each story you say the missing word, then hear the answer. Learners who kept recalling words remembered about 80% a week later. Those who stopped testing themselves remembered less than half as many.
Built on how memory really works
Every LingoMax podcast is built on the best-researched methods in language learning: spaced repetition, retrieval practice (active recall), grammar learned in context and foreign language enjoyment.
Karpicke & Roediger, 2008: learners who kept practising recall remembered about 80% of new words a week later, against about a third when they stopped.
Grammar in context
Stories use words you mostly know, so you follow the plot and pick up the grammar on the way. In one study, nine hours of reading for meaning improved learners' feel for the English past tense.
Stories you enjoy
Funny characters and situations you want to follow. Across 56 studies, learners who enjoyed learning tended to achieve more and speak more willingly.
Spaced repetition
Your words come back in new stories over days and weeks. Across 48 experiments with 3,411 language learners, practice spread out over time beat practice all at once.
How it works
Save words
One tap in our library, or add words from anything you read or hear.
Press play
LingoMax creates a podcast just for you, with a story you will love.
Level up
Right before you'd forget your words, they return in a new story. The recall game with your AI tutor sets the timing.
Spaced repetition
Every word comes back just before you forget it
One of the best-researched methods in language learning, proven across 48 experiments with 3,411 learners. Kim & Webb 2022
Example schedule. The recall game with your AI tutor sets the timing: words you remember come back later, words you forget come back sooner.
Save words from anywhere
Every word you save goes into your personal podcasts.
In the app
Save words from the app library
A growing library of videos, podcasts and texts at your level.
Outside the app
Add words from anywhere else
Saw a new word on a menu, in class or at work? Bring it in.
Take a photo
Of a sign, a menu or your textbook. You choose which words to keep.
Type it in
Heard a word on the bus? Add it in seconds.
Import
Bring in the word lists you already have.
Library podcasts are ready-made episodes for everyone. Your personal podcasts are built from the words you save.
Start free
The library and saving words are free. Stories made from your words: €0.99 a week to read, or as a podcast from €3.99 a week if you pay yearly.
Free
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- A growing library of videos, songs, podcasts and texts
- Save as many words as you like
Reader
€0.99 / week
- Everything in Free
- Personal stories as text, made from your saved words
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Basic
€4.99 / week
€207.48 billed yearly · save 20%
- Everything in Free
- 30 podcast min / week (three 10-min episodes)
- Practice with your AI tutor
Premium
€6.99 / week
€285.48 billed yearly · save 21%
- Everything in Free
- 60 podcast min / week (six 10-min episodes)
- Practice with your AI tutor
- Premium voices
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Fun. Easy. Science-backed.
Save your first words and hear your own story.