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 Manx reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help, including for initial consonant mutations.
Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Manx reading passage — useful when the existing published corpus is small.
Manx (Gaelg) is a Goidelic Celtic language of the Isle of Man, closely related to Irish and Scottish Gaelic. The last native speaker, Ned Maddrell, died in 1974, and UNESCO declared the language extinct in 2009 — but a revival movement had been underway since the 1930s, and UNESCO has since revised the status to 'critically endangered'. Today around 2,200 people speak Manx, including pupils at the Bunscoill Ghaelgagh immersion school.
Unlike Irish and Scottish Gaelic, which use historic Gaelic spelling conventions, Manx uses an English-style orthography devised by Bishop John Phillips in the 17th century and refined later. So 'mountain' is slieau (Irish sliabh, Scottish Gaelic sliabh) and 'king' is ree (Irish rí). Grammar still uses VSO word order, two genders, and the same initial consonant mutations as Irish.