SIMPLANG

Simplang

Learn

A reference companion to the museum — curated topic sections that go deeper on the subjects behind the collection. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Learning Methods

How people actually learn a language — second-language acquisition, immersion and comprehensible input, spaced repetition and flashcards, and the CEFR levels that map the journey.

5 entries

Vocabulary & Grammar

The nuts and bolts of a language — words and how they combine, grammar and syntax, idioms and collocations, cognates and loanwords, and where words come from.

2 entries

How Language Works

The science behind speech — phonetics and phonemes, semantics and pragmatics, dialects and sociolinguistics, and the great linguists who took language apart.

5 entries

Languages of the World

The world's tongues and their stories — language families and lingua francas, the biggest languages and the endangered ones, sign languages, and the constructed languages people invented.

13 entries