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 Setswana reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful for parsing Sotho-Tswana noun classes.
Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Setswana reading passage — from kgotla community meetings to Botswana football news.
Tswana (Setswana) is a Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana branch, the national language of Botswana and one of South Africa's 12 official languages. About 14 million people speak it across Botswana, South Africa (mostly in the North West, Free State and Northern Cape), Namibia and Zimbabwe. The closely related Sesotho and Sepedi are mutually intelligible at a basic level.
Setswana uses around 18 noun classes whose prefixes drive concord throughout the sentence. The Latin orthography uses some distinctive digraphs: tl for a lateral affricate /tɬ/, kg for an aspirated velar /kʰ/, and kh for an aspirated palatal /tʃʰ/. Verbs are agglutinative with subject, object, tense, aspect and verbal extensions (-isa- causative, -ela- applicative, -wa- passive).