A language is learned
one sentence at a time.
Not word lists. Not grammar tables. Mondozza starts with real sentences from something you actually wanted to read, then has you write them back and say them out loud — the order a child learns in, and the order almost every app skips.
Fifteen languages, taught in the one you already speak.
A Cidade Sem Nome
Helena Vasques · Chapter 6
O sol nascia devagar sobre o Rio, e Marina já estava na janela.
Naquela manhã, porém, algo parecia diferente — o mar estava calmo demais.
Marina fechou os olhos e tentou lembrar do sonho.
Translation
“That morning, though, something felt different — the sea was too calm.”
Grammar
porém — a more literary “however” than mas. It flags a turn in the scene.
Keep it
Tap parecia and it's saved with this sentence — the meaning comes back with it.
Whatever you're learning
Taught in whichever language you already speak.
01 — Why reading
You don't need another app that teaches grammar first.
Most language tools are built around lessons. Mondozza is built around reading — everything else follows from that.
Old tools
- Grammar tables and drills before you're allowed near a real sentence
- Single words on flashcards, stripped of the sentence that gave them meaning
- Lessons about airports, colours and ordering coffee
- Someone else's word list, the same for every learner
- A chatbot that starts from nothing, every time, about nothing
Mondozza
- Real sentences on day one — grammar explained at the line where you met it
- Words saved with the sentence they came from, so meaning survives
- Your books and articles, with stories from prompts you write
- Write it back and submit it for corrections and explanations
- Say it to someone who answers — in the register you'd actually hear
“O mar estava calmo naquela manhã de setembro.”
Why not foi here?
Foi is the perfect past — a finished event. The calm lasted all morning, an ongoing state, so Portuguese uses the imperfect: estava. English says “was” and loses the part that says it went on.
And naquela?
em + aquela, contracted. Portuguese fuses these constantly — it's the pattern, not an exception.
02 — The panel beside the page
A teacher sitting next to you, not a dictionary.
A dictionary gives a word every meaning it has ever had. What you need is the one it has here, in this sentence, in this tense, doing this job. Tap it and the panel answers that question instead.
It explains the grammar of the line in front of you, conjugates the verb you just met, breaks a long sentence into the pieces it is built from, and answers anything you type about the page. You never leave the book to find out what something meant.
03 — You choose the reading
Bring a text. Or describe a story.
Read a book, an article or a passage you choose. Mondozza explains unfamiliar words and grammar in the sentence where you meet them.
Want something new? Tell the story prompt what to write about, choose a tense and length, and read at your course level. No interest profile or interview required.
A story from your prompt
Mondozza
What would you like to read?
You
“A short story in Spanish about a cook who finds an old film reel. Use the past tense.”
Mondozza
A story at your chosen level, ready to read sentence by sentence. Open any word for help, and save the ones you want to review.
Studio
Correcting as you writeOntem eu vou fui no ao mercado com meu irmã irmão.
Why
Ontem puts it in the past, so ir takes the preterite: fui. And irmão is masculine — the ending has to agree.
04 — Writing
Corrected while you're still typing.
Not marked at the end like homework. You pause, and a second later the wrong form is struck through with the right one beside it and a line explaining the rule — while you still remember what you were reaching for.
Reading shows you the sentence. Writing is where you find out whether you can actually build one.
05 — Voices
Every sentence can be heard.
Reading silently teaches you to recognise a word on a page. It does not teach you to catch it when someone says it. Press any sentence and hear it read aloud — at the speed of speech, not the speed of a lesson.
A different voice for every language, so what you hear is how the language is actually spoken rather than one flat accent applied to all of them.
Marina
Brazilian Portuguese
O mar estava calmo naquela manhã de setembro.
Warm and unhurried, the way the coast speaks.
Kenji
Japanese
その朝、海はとても静かだった。
Even and precise, with the pauses written into the sentence.
Amara
French
La mer était calme, ce matin-là de septembre.
Close and conversational — liaison and all, not textbook French.
Henrik
German
An jenem Septembermorgen war das Meer ganz ruhig.
Clear and deliberate, easy to follow while you are still reading slowly.
06 — Recall
The deck builds itself. Then it writes you a story.
You never sit down to make flashcards. You tap a word while reading and it's saved with the sentence it came from — then it comes back on the schedule your own recall sets.
01 — Tap
Saved where you met it
The card keeps its sentence. You're never staring at a bare word wondering which of its four meanings this was.
Verb
acordara
had woken up — pluperfect
02 — Recall
Graded, not timetabled
Say how well you knew it and the interval moves. Nearly had it, and it's back tomorrow. Owned it, and you won't see it for a month.
Again
1d
Hard
1d
Good
1d
Easy
1d
03 — Reuse
A story from your own words
Mondozza writes a short story seeded with the words you've saved and the grammar you choose — on a subject you describe. Recall stops being a chore and becomes reading again.
O Cinema de Bairro
Example story · imperfect tense · set in cinema
Delivery
It comes to you — by email, by text, or both.
The hard part of a review deck was never the reviewing. It's opening the app. So the cards arrive where you already are — an email with your due words in it, a text with the next five, each on its own schedule at the hour you actually read. The card keeps the sentence you first met it in, so you can answer it without opening anything.
Answering by reply is rolling out shortly; reminders themselves are live today.
Email · 8:00 PM
12 words to recognise tonight
Text · every other day
Mondozza — 12 words due:
· acordara — had woken up
· porém — however
+10 more
Pricing
One plan, everything in it.
$19.99
per month, billed annually
- Import unlimited books, PDFs and articles
- Sentence-level translation, grammar and conjugation in context
- One-press bilingual reading, line by line
- A flashcard deck built from words you choose to save
- Spaced review in your reading room
- Stories written from the words you've actually saved
- Submit writing for corrections and explanations
- Read-aloud playback using available browser voices
- AI reading and practice included
3 days free, then billed annually. Cancel any time, in one click.
Questions
Fifteen, chosen because they are what people actually study: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Arabic, Turkish, Dutch and Polish. Available voices depend on your device and the configured speech service. You can practise reading, grammar, conjugation, stories, writing correction and speaking. You can learn several at once, each as its own course. We teach in whichever language you already speak.
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