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 Swati reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful for parsing Nguni noun classes and clicks.
Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Swati reading passage — useful when textbooks are concentrated in Eswatini.
Swati (siSwati) is a Nguni Bantu language closely related to Zulu, with around 3 million speakers — the national language of Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), and one of the 12 official languages of South Africa, particularly in Mpumalanga. Speakers can largely understand Zulu but the languages have separate standards and identifiable lexical differences.
Like other Nguni languages, Swati has clicks — the dental c, post-alveolar q and lateral x — borrowed from contact with Khoisan languages, though they appear in fewer Swati words than in Zulu. It has the typical Nguni noun-class system (with 15 active classes) that drives agreement throughout the sentence, and uses umu-/aba- for class 1/2 (people) and isi-/ti- for class 7/8 (things).