SparkKing

11 Indian languages · iOS & Android · free to start

Learn Bengali from Tamil.
Without English in the middle.

Every other app starts you in English. SparkKing starts you where you already are. Set the language you think in as your source, pick any of our eleven as your target, and the lessons, the translations and the explanations all arrive in that language.

Try it: choose a source and a target

I already speak
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One word, eleven languages

“Grandmother” — the word worth
getting right on the first call.

Three of these are the same word, inherited three ways. The rest are entirely their own. Going through English hides that. Starting from a language you already speak makes it obvious.

The word for grandmother in eleven Indian languages
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Speaking, not tapping

It tells you which syllable slipped.

You can match a hundred flashcards and still be unintelligible to your grandmother on the phone. Speaking is the part that's hard to practise alone, because nobody is there to tell you which sound went wrong.

SparkKing scores each syllable rather than the whole word, so “try again” points at something specific. The same microphone loop drives AI conversation practice, for when the problem is freezing mid-sentence rather than vocabulary.

Pronunciation Illustration

धन्यवाद

dhan · ya · vaad

“thank you”

  • dhan96
  • ya68
  • vaad91

Fix this one. The middle syllable is landing short. Hold it a beat longer, then try again.

An illustration of the feedback screen — not a recording of a real person. This page never asks for your microphone.

What's actually in the app

Enough to keep going.

11Indian languages, each learnable from any of the other ten
121source-and-target pairs — only eleven of them start in English
21,700+audio clips across the eleven languages
4levels per language — alphabet, basic, intermediate, advanced

Start in the language you think in.

Free tier, no card needed.