Memrise: Speak a new language 12+

Learn it like you live there

Memrise Limited

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    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Over 75 million people learn a language with Memrise because it goes beyond teaching you a language—it brings you the experience of real-life conversations, cultural insights, and the confidence to speak like a local.

Learn Spanish, Korean, Japanese or 34 other languages in lessons that teach you vocabulary, listening and speaking as if you were a local living in the country!

Choose a language from Spanish (MEX & EU), Korean, Japanese, English, French, Italian, Portuguese (PT & BR), German, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, Danish, Icelandic, Mongolian, Norwegian, Slovenian, Yoruba, Hindi, Ukrainian, Thai, Swahili, Hebrew, Greek, Indonesian, Welsh, Tagalog, Persian, Vietnamese.

NEW languages added: isiXhosa, Hausa, Igbo and Somali!

* Showing you how to piece together natural sentences, preparing you for everyday conversation
* Giving you a place to practice role-play and gain confidence
* Teaching you the cultural nuances you need to feel like a local

Memrise is the best language-learning app for beginners that are starting to learn a language from scratch, intermediate learners that want to build on their listening and speaking, and advanced learners who are looking to improve their conversational skills.

Download Memrise so that you can confidently:

* Connect with your partner and their family
* Have a better time while travelling
* Sharpen your mind if you’re learning a language for brain health
* Prepare for a language exam
* Connect with work colleagues
* Better understand different cultures

How do we help you have conversations in other languages?

* Choose from hundreds of real-life scenarios
* Build vocab by learning relevant words & phrases the locals actually use
* Practice listening to native speaker videos using what you’ve just learned
* Then build confidence speaking with AI Buddies, your personalised language learning bots

- Helping 75+ million learners speak confidently
- 190,000 4.6 star ratings
- Featured in BBC World Service, Forbes, The Verge, The Financial Times, and more

What other learners are saying

"I've been using Memrise for about two years, studying European Portuguese. I have the paid version - it's a solid learning tool, and it has been my primary resource ever since got it. I find the Learn with Locals feature to be especially useful, more so as my Portuguese improves. My wife and I spent a couple of weeks in Portugal a few months ago, and we were able to handle all of our transactions - stores, restaurants, markets, car rental, etc!" - Voloúre

Need to speak a new language soon? Get the practice you need with Memrise Pro

- Unlock all vocab lessons
- Unlock all native speaker videos
- Unlimited speaking practice
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- Limited videos and conversations
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Download our app for free and start learning with Memrise today: Learn French, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), German, Korean, Japanese, Japanese (no script), Turkish, Italian, Chinese (simplified), Dutch, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Danish, Slovenian, Icelandic, Yoruba, Mongolian, English (UK) and English (US)!

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*PLEASE READ: A Memrise Pro subscription are designed for Memrise-approved courses. A subscription is required in order to access all our learning features. These features may vary depending on your device's language and language pair. Once purchased, subscriptions will automatically renew unless cancelled before the end of the current payment period. Subscriptions can be managed or cancelled in your Apple App Store account. In-app Permissions – To enable some of the features of the Memrise app we may need to ask for your permission. For example, we'll ask to access your microphone if you'd like to practice your pronunciation skills. You can change permissions at any time in your settings.

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What’s New

Version 2025.3.12

What's new this week:

- Bug fixes
- General UX improvements
- Listened to our trance playlist to help us work faster
- Scoffed down 4 birthday cakes and needed 4 afternoon naps
- Worked late on Thursday to write tons of new code
- Went to the movies on Friday and fell asleep before it even started

Ratings and Reviews

4.7 out of 5
89.4K Ratings

89.4K Ratings

Editors’ Notes

With Memrise, language learning’s a game—the irresistible kind that anyone can pick up and play. It teaches you everyday words and phrases—perfect for your next trip abroad—and reinforces them with fun quizzes and playful images. We get an awesome sense of progress every time we use it.

Owsi2 ,

The most fun of all the language learning apps

And for me making it fun and keeping me interested is at least half the battle when it comes to learning languages (my school experience of language learning was that it was like some exquisite torture). So far after a good amount of time spent I am definitely improving, think the sequencing of material is broadly appropriate for day to day use and is “natural” as opposed to being academic, I like the various different ways the software teases me into trying to beat myself and win little awards (I learn best with lots of encouragement and less time spent feeling a failure) and the other elements of “gamification”. I think the inclusion of a camera based real time “what is the word for this thing” tool is cool and though I haven’t used it in earnest it’s enough for me to feel proud of the app. And whoever thought to include the phrase “you are a genius” was a real genius. I couldn’t help but laugh out loud and beam when it taught me that - caught me completely off guard and I felt like I had a new friend helping me learn.

Shadowoftheappletree ,

Good but...

Overall, the App. is great. There are some tweaks which I would suggest you make to improve it. Some buttons are too small, like the speaker icon for repeating the audio - if you don’t hit it exactly dead-on, it won’t play the audio. Also, some multiple choice exercises are irritating because, when one already knows the answer, but has to rummage through six choices of wildly different options to find it, it can just be a waste of time. A better option would be, instead of having six options to choose from all wildly different and none of which, except the correct choice, vaguely resembling the correct answer, you could have two or three options which are all similar in meaning to the correct answer - this way the searching has a purpose, rather than just slowing down the process of finding an the obvious answer. Update - Also, the multiple-choice exercise is often so slow in responsiveness that often I’ll tap a choice and nothing will happen. If you try to tap them in order with any speed at all, some will not respond and you’ll end up with a jumbled up sentence that you then have to waste time fixing. These are small and easily fixable things, so it’d be a shame if they were left-in.

Developer Response ,

Hi. Thank you for your review and all the valuable suggestions. We will definitely consider them in the future development of the app. Best of luck in your studies. Pavel, Memrise team.

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App Privacy

The developer, Memrise Limited, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

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