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 Walloon reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful for comparing Walloon with French.
Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Walloon reading passage — useful when published material focuses on older literature.
Walloon (walon) is a Romance language of the langue d'oïl group, sister to French, spoken across most of Wallonia in southern Belgium and some adjacent French villages. The French Community of Belgium recognised it as an indigenous regional language in 1990. Estimates suggest about 600,000 speakers, although active daily use has declined sharply since the 20th century in favour of French.
Walloon and French both descend from northern Vulgar Latin (the langue d'oïl), but Walloon retains many features lost in French: Germanic loanwords from Frankish, the use of clitic subject pronouns even in unstressed verb forms, the preservation of Latin /k/ before /a/ (cou 'neck' from collum vs French cou but vatche 'cow' vs vache). It is written in the older dialect-specific Feller system or the unified rifondou walon (1990s).