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 Wolof reading passage is clickable. Get English translations and grammar help — useful for parsing Wolof's focus markers and noun classes.
Type any topic and LingoBear generates a fresh Wolof reading passage — from Mouride brotherhoods to Dakar music.
Wolof is the lingua franca of Senegal — official Senegalese, despite French being the country's administrative language. It is also widely spoken in Gambia and Mauritania. Estimates put native speakers at around 5 million and total speakers including L2 at around 12 million. The Senegalese government adopted a Latin orthography for Wolof in 1971; the older Arabic-based Wolofal is still used in religious texts.
Wolof has SVO word order, no grammatical gender, and a system of around 10 noun classes (a, b, g, j, k, l, m, n, s, w) that show agreement on demonstratives and determiners (xale bi 'the child' from class b, kër gi 'the house' from class g). Verbal focus markers (la, na, dafa) highlight different parts of the sentence. It has no verb conjugation by tense; aspect is shown by particles.