Polygloss

Name: Polygloss
Rating: 5.0 (12 reviews)

Express yourself in another language

5.0•12 reviews•

106 followers

Express yourself in another language

5.0•12 reviews•

106 followers

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Polygloss is a collaborative language learning game for the intermediate level. Are you stuck in "I can understand but can't speak"? Then Polygloss is right for you! Guess images and have fun with a low-stress opportunity to express yourself in 100+ languages.

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Launch tags:Education•Languages•Online Learning

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Polygloss

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Hello Product Hunters 👋 I’m super excited to launch Polygloss, a collaborative language learning game for the intermediate level. I’ve been working on this project for a couple of years, which I started during a masters in computational linguistics. I’ve poured all my academic knowledge and practical first-hand experience speaking multiple languages into it.  🌟 Get Ready to Unlock Your Language Potential with Polygloss! 🌟 Are you tired of hitting a language learning plateau? Struggling to bridge the gap between understanding and fluent communication? Say goodbye to language learning woes and say hello to Polygloss! 🗣️ Communicate Confidently! 🗣️ Polygloss is the game-changing language learning app designed to take you from passive comprehension to active communication. With image-based lessons, you'll have exciting topics to discuss and describe with friends. No more relying on translations – use the words you know to express yourself freely! 🎮 Language Learning Meets Fun and Games! 🎮 Polygloss brings a fresh approach to language learning by combining the excitement of a game with the depth of collaborative learning. Say goodbye to tedious vocabulary drills and mundane grammar exercises - with Polygloss, learning becomes an exhilarating adventure!   🌍 Connect with the World, Your Way! 🌍 Polygloss opens the doors to a global community of language enthusiasts, offering you a low-stress and supportive environment to practice speaking in over 100 languages, including English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, and many more! No matter what language you want to learn, Polygloss has got you covered.   🏆 A Complement to Your Favorite Language Learning Apps 🏆 Love using apps like Duolingo for language practice? You'll love Polygloss even more! Our app seamlessly complements popular language learning platforms, adding a new dimension of communication and vocabulary growth to your language journey.   🔬 Science-Backed and Award-Winning 🏅 Polygloss is more than just a language learning app; it's a scientifically proven method to enhance your language skills! Recognized for its excellence, Polygloss earned the prestigious "Best Paper" award at the renowned NLP4CALL workshop series. Our methodology is rooted in critical linguistics, embracing autonomous learning and empowering you for social transformation.   📈 Join the Language Learning Revolution Now! 📈 Ready to elevate your language skills and start communicating like never before? Join thousands of learners and unlock the true potential of your multilingual self. The app is free to use, with optional premium features to enhance your experience further. Join the Polygloss revolution and embark on an exciting journey to language fluency. 👩‍🏫 How to play 📖 1. Start a match 2. Pick an image, write/say something, and send to another player 3. Your match parter must guess the correct image and send a message back to you 4. Guess their image, get points and unlock lessons — Thank you for welcoming Polygloss into the Product Hunt community. I can’t wait to hear your feedback and if you have any questions, please shoot!

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3yr ago

@etiene_dalcol Polygloss is one of the few apps I've ever paid for. Part of the reason actually is that I did not feel pressured to do so. On the other hand, it is so great that I guess I'd pay even if I was forced to do so, albeit probably more reluctantly. I second what has been said already: I've also never run out of points and it would have been ok if I did and felt a bit more pressure to pay.

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3yr ago

💎 Pixel perfection

I just found this app today and lost a chunk of my day playing it, it is super well done and I cannot wait to see its continued growth, I already signed on for life and I am cheap lol I love that I get to be creative with my sentences and I can challenge myself as much or as little as I want to. Some peoples clues are really funny and it encourages me to not only think in Spanish, but to do so with creative flair because it engages my intense need to try and be funny or clever with my hints lol Check it out, there are many different price points including free.

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3yr ago

Polygloss

Maker

@jayde_m Hi Jayde! I'm really happy you found us today and I deeply appreciate the support 💖 First sale of the day 🎉

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3yr ago

@etiene_dalcol I hope some of my language friends will become more sales for you soon! :D keep up the great work.

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3yr ago

I'm one of the Welsh learners on Polygloss - there are lots of us, many migrated from DuoLingo I think. It's dead easy to use, and 'addictive' but in a good way - there's no pressure, you just feel stimulated to keep using it, writing something in your target language to keep the conversations flowing (you earn a 'reward' if someone else appreciates your creativity). And it also feels good to pay back by helping those less fluent, if they make an error.

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3yr ago

Polygloss

Maker

@ozaru Thank you for the support, Ben! Yes, I was really surprised then a big flock of players learning Welsh joined. It feels amazing to work on a product that helps people learn languages going through a revitalization process. Quick question, what do you think of the balance between free and paid features?

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3yr ago

@etiene_dalcol To be honest, from a commercial (long-term sustainability) perspective, I think there's not enough incentive to pay, i.e. too much is free - I was happily using it for months, never ran out of points, no clear 'must have' benefit to becoming a paid member. This was ironically one of the reasons I eventually paid... I was worried you might not get enough paid members to keep it going! If you now tell happy users "from next month you'll have to pay for X" you'll alienate them, so I guess you'll just have to add some 'paid user only' features... trouble is, I can't think of much that's missing from the app currently! I do have a few ideas but am unsure if PH is the best place for suggestions; maybe Slack? (But my invitation has expired.)

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3yr ago

Polygloss

Maker

@ozaru send me an email and i'll send you another invitation!

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3yr ago

I'm so impressed by the continuous growth and development of the app. If anyone is yet to try it, the absolute highlight for me is the design of the app, that supports any language, also languages with low-resources that are spoken by smaller communities and that are traditionally excluded from the bigger apps out there. It also attends to the gap between language comprehension and production, which anyone who has ever tried to learn a language knows that it is the biggest chasm to cross. I learn Italian and perfect my German thought it, as well as check periodically if anyone is learning Macedonian to correct their input or pair with them.

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3yr ago

Polygloss

Maker

@tamara_atanasoska Thanks for the support, Tamara. It means a lot! Making it accessible to minority languages is really important to me 💖

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3yr ago

Polygloss is a game-changer for language learning! highly recommend especially if you’re tired of the Duolingo way of learning! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ 🗣️🌍

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3yr ago

Polygloss

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@vanessayuenn hey 💖 thanks for supporting us!

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3yr ago

Polygloss is a fantastic tool for language learning. It is a fun and amazing way to connect with native speakers and immerse yourself in the language all without leaving your home. The app is intuitive and easy to use making it the perfect way to learn a new language. I can’t recommend it enough!

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3yr ago

Polygloss

Maker

@madfoosa Thank you for the support, Chris! Quick question, what do you think of the balance between free and paid features?

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3yr ago

In my opinion, this application is quite useful for practising and improving your language skills. It consists of trying to describe what you see in a picture so that someone else can find out what you are talking about and give you feedback on your mistakes. In this way, you will get used to the grammar of a language to build more natural sounding sentences and improve your vocabulary. You can describe the things you see by writing, which is a free feature, or by speaking, which is a premium feature. And although it is a premium feature, you can use it for free if you are paired with a premium user. Also, the premium option seems pretty cheap to me. As a way to encourage players to keep learning, there is the option to send rewards to the person you are playing with and let them know what you think of the phrase (if it's funny, if you think it's very creative or some other things). With this app you can practise any language, which I find quite interesting and useful, as most apps are limited to just a few. All in all, it is a useful app with which you can improve your language skills in any language for free (or cheaply, if you choose the premium option).

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3yr ago

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Reviewers see Polygloss as an unusually effective practice tool for actually producing language, especially once learners move beyond the beginner stage where many apps feel less useful. They repeatedly praise the simple, intuitive design, image-based prompts, and collaborative community for making practice engaging, creative, and low-pressure rather than repetitive. Users also highlight short writing, audio recording, and feedback as strong ways to build speaking and sentence-forming confidence. Negative feedback is essentially absent, so the picture is overwhelmingly positive but mostly limited to enthusiastic user reports.

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