Learnji — the language app based on emoji
I’ve just launched a small language app that I wanted to build for ages. It’s called Learnji and it teaches you languages (🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸🇵🇹🇩🇪🇬🇧) with emoji 🌴🍆🥕🌶🥓🍕.
With a whole bunch of emoji, actually. There are currently more than 1200 words to learn and 250 countries to explore. These emoji are tucked away into around 30 categories.
It’s been in the works since more than two years, and it’s available on Product Hunt and the App Store now.
Some more details about the app and how it got to be:
1️⃣💡 Idea
Exactly when joining iubenda over 4 years ago and walking through the streets of Milan I wanted to build a basic vocabulary app with flash card effect at the heart, that would teach me the most basic words.
2️⃣💪 Solution
Then it hit me that the simplest thing I could do, was to use the emoji range. Emoji are widely known and used by a whole bunch of people and they’re supposed to fill the most basic communication needs we humans have. So I began filling in spreadsheets with all emoji and seeing whether it would make actual sense in app form. I noticed that I could probably systematically put them away into different categories to make it even more useful and ended up creating some really great and silly categories that are now part of the core word learning flow within the app:
“Useful”, “Smileys and People”, “Professions”, “Emoji faces”, “Gestures”, “Day”, “Night”, “Time”, “Old technology”, “Related to phones”, “Animals and Nature”, “Holidays”, “Travel and Places”, “Africa”, “North and South America”, “Europe”, “Asia and Oceania”, “Activity”, “Roger Federer”, “Love”, “Crime”, “Numbers”, “Food and Drink”, “Breakfast”, “Objects”, “At the office”, “Zodiac signs”, “Symbols” and “Population”.
🇫🇷➡️🇮🇹➡️🇪🇸➡️🇵🇹➡️🇩🇪 Just swipe
My main thought besides basic vocabulary was to make it really easy to compare languages to each other. So this is what you can do now: swipe from left to right and compare English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German to each other. The immediate next feature is to offer this in quiz form within the app.
🌎🌍🌏 Country quiz
All countries/flags are included, too, and in order to make this more interesting you can also guess their relative population count.
That is all, I am excited for you to try it out and let me know what you’d like to see in version 2.
