What learners say about LingoBear
“Hands down one of the best language apps I've tried, love it.”
gayshouldbecanon
“Really cool way to build vocab breadth and depth on topics of interest! Especially love the explanation field which provides so much helpful context.”
vayabien
“I really think this will help language learners with motivation. It's great that you can type in your interest, and it creates a story/article for you. Well done!”
Chasing_toucans
“This is really cool! The UI is very intuitive and not annoying and the text it generated was interesting and the right level for me. This really is the first language tool I've seen in a while that's actually interesting and fresh.”
anonymous
“Just tried it out. This is Awesome! I'll be using it on my Xbox a lot I can foresee.”
michaeldross
“Loved it. This is the kind of thing that makes me excited about generative AI in the language learning space.”
ButterflyBitter888
Every word in your Lao reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful because Lao does not use spaces between words.
Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Lao reading passage — from Mekong travel to laap recipes.
Lao and Thai are both Southwestern Tai languages of the Tai-Kadai family, closely related and largely mutually intelligible in everyday spoken use. Laos's Lao population (~7 million) is in fact outnumbered by Lao speakers in northeast Thailand (Isan), where roughly 20 million people speak varieties of Lao. The two languages share a script ancestor but the modern Lao script has fewer letters than Thai.
Lao uses an abugida with 27 consonant letters (divided into high, mid and low classes that interact with five tone marks) and 28 vowel symbols that can appear above, below, before or after the consonant. Words are written without spaces, which makes word boundaries the main challenge for learners. Six tones distinguish meaning, though the exact inventory varies by dialect. LingoBear's tap-to-translate helps you find word breaks.