Five phrases a day
Each day's lesson is five phrases. You practise them with flash cards, then a short quiz.
Language learning · Nyuchi Learning
Mukoko Lingo
Language training for schools, businesses and government. Learn Shona, Ndebele, English or Chinese, five phrases a day, with an AI tutor that meets each learner at their level, while you set the work and see who is keeping up.
A partner app developed by Nyuchi Learning. Part of Mukoko by Nyuchi.
In your browser at lingo.mukoko.com · starting is free
What it does today
Five phrases a day, and a tutor to ask.
Review at the right time
Spaced repetition decides which phrases come back, and when, so earlier phrases keep returning for practice.
Shamwari, the AI tutor
Ask Shamwari (“friend” in Shona) a question in chat. It adapts to the level the app has measured, not to a level you picked for yourself.
Four languages, and Swahili in beta
Shona, Ndebele, English and Chinese, with phrases compared across them and pronunciation guides for all four. Swahili is in beta.
Cultural context
Usage examples, and when a phrase is the right thing to say. Phrases for real situations: greetings, getting around, shopping, emergencies and work.
Progress you can see
Streaks, XP, bookmarks, and how strong you are in each skill, on one dashboard.
Who it is for
One app, from a single learner to a whole organisation.
For business and government
Train the people who serve the public
Staff who deal with customers and citizens learn the languages those people speak. Set the work, measure it with assessments, and run it for the whole organisation from one console.
For schools
Set the work, see the progress
Create a class, set assignments against specific phrases and skills, sync rosters from your school's system, and watch each student's progress.
For a learner
Learn the language around you
Travellers, people living and working somewhere new, and locals building on a language they already have. Starting is free.
For schools, businesses and government
Language training you can assign and measure.
For a school teaching a language, a business training the staff who serve its customers, or a government department whose people serve the public in their own languages. Lingo has two halves: learners use the app, and the people running the programme use the console, where the work is set and measured.
For teachers and trainers
- Create classes and learner groups.
- Set assignments against specific phrases and skills.
- See each learner's progress, skill by skill.
- Use diagnostic, formative and summative assessments. They are graded on the server, so the score you see is the score the learner earned.
For leaders and IT
- Schools: sync class rosters over OneRoster from Clever, ClassLink or PowerSchool.
- Manage users, content, moderation, guardrails, analytics and API keys.
- Three layers of moderation check what learners type to the AI tutor.
- Open source code your IT team can read.
For whoever has to sign this off
The facts, plainly.
- Languages
- Shona, Ndebele, English and Chinese. Swahili is in beta. The app's screens are available in the four supported languages.
- Where it runs
- In a web browser, at lingo.mukoko.com. Organisations and their admins use the console at lingo.nyuchi.com/console.
- Assessments
- Diagnostic, formative and summative. They are graded on the server, not on the learner's device, so a score cannot be edited before it is recorded.
- Class rosters
- Rosters sync in over OneRoster from Clever, ClassLink and PowerSchool.
- Moderation
- Three layers on what learners type to the tutor: rule-based guardrails, an AI check, and detection of attempts to manipulate the tutor (prompt injection). Shamwari never claims to be human.
- Sign-in and AI
- Sign-in is through WorkOS AuthKit. The tutor runs on Cloudflare Workers AI, called from Lingo's own servers; the AI credentials never reach a learner's device.
- Admin controls
- Organisation admins manage users, content, moderation, guardrails, analytics and API keys.
- Source code
- Open source, under the MIT licence. Anyone can read how it works.
Get it
Open it in your browser and start.
Go to lingo.mukoko.com, choose a language and take today's five phrases. Starting is free. For a school, a team or a government department, write to us.
Who makes it. Mukoko Lingo is a partner app developed by Nyuchi Learning. It is part of Mukoko by Nyuchi. Nyuchi Learning is part of Nyuchi Africa, which also makes the Toddle Enhancement Extension.