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 Tongan reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful for navigating Tongan's three speech registers.
Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Tongan reading passage — from ‘Ikai I tai (Sea Sunday) hymns to rugby news.
Tongan (lea faka-Tonga) is a Polynesian language of the Austronesian family, official in the Kingdom of Tonga and spoken by around 190,000 people across Tonga, New Zealand, Australia and the United States. It is closely related to Niuean and Samoan and is one of the few remaining indigenous monarchical languages — used in royal court ceremony.
Tongan uses VSO word order and an ergative-absolutive system: the subject of a transitive verb takes the particle ‘e (Na‘e taa‘i ‘e Sione ‘a Mele 'John hit Mary'). It has three socially graded vocabularies — common, polite (for chiefs) and royal (for the monarch). Tongan also distinguishes inclusive vs exclusive 'we' and uses postposed possessive pronouns.