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 Shona reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful for parsing the rich noun-class agreement system.
Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Shona reading passage — from Great Zimbabwe history to Harare culture.
Shona (chiShona) is a Bantu language and the most widely spoken first language in Zimbabwe, with around 14 million speakers across Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The standard written form was codified in 1931 (the Doke standard) from the major dialects Zezuru, Karanga, Manyika, Korekore and Ndau. It is one of Zimbabwe's 16 official languages.
Shona uses around 22 noun classes (sometimes counted as 21) whose prefixes trigger agreement throughout the sentence. Verbs are agglutinative and take subject, object, tense, aspect and mood markers. The language has two tones — high (often unmarked) and low — that can change meaning: mukákî 'milker' vs mukákî with different tonal patterns. LingoBear lets you see these in real text.