Stop memorizing.
Start feeling the language.

Honestly — not yet. LAFwords is built for learners somewhere between B1 and C1 on the CEFR scale: people who can already navigate basic situations in their target language but feel stuck moving past intermediate. At the very start, what you need is structure, sequence, and the rapid early gains a beginner app gives you. Duolingo, Babbel, and similar tools are genuinely good at that stage; LAFwords would feel premature.

When you’ve finished a beginner course and the language still doesn’t feel like yours — when you can read a menu but real conversation still slips away — that’s when LAFwords starts being useful.

Yes — this is the exact gap LAFwords was built for. Duolingo gets you to roughly B1: you recognize a few thousand words, you can navigate everyday situations, you’ve drilled the grammar. What it can’t give you is depth — the felt sense of how a word actually lives in real conversation, with its register, its near-synonyms, its varied contexts.

LAFwords picks up there. Each word you study arrives across ten varied real-world examples — not as a translation pair, but as a small atlas of how the word is used. You’re not memorizing more words; you’re meeting the words you already half-know across enough situations that they finally become yours to use.

Anki and LAFwords share one mechanism — spaced repetition. We both bring a word back at the moment you’re about to forget it. But what’s inside the card is fundamentally different.

An Anki card is a word and its translation. The same pair, repeated until memorized. The word gets deeper in memory, but the shape of what you know stays narrow — you’ve drilled one point in the word’s meaning.

A LAFcard (we call our studying system LAFcards — a small wink at the flashcard tradition) is one word met across ten varied contexts. Not to teach you those ten situations — to give you the felt sense of the word’s range, so you can use it in the hundred situations you haven’t seen yet. Ten contexts as an interpolation set, not a drill set.

It’s a different kind of vocabulary, not a deeper version of the same one.

No — and that’s deliberate. LAFwords follows the principle the brand is built around: Learn As First.

Nobody gave you a translation for mama, sky, love when you were learning your first language. You met those words across the real moments of your life — again and again, in countless small situations — until they simply became part of you. They couldn’t have been translated; their meaning was the way you met them.

A second language can be learned the same way. So when you study a word in LAFwords, you don’t see “word A means translation B.” You see the word used across varied real sentences, paired with an image and native pronunciation. Meaning emerges from context — the way it did the first time around. This is the mechanism that moves you past flashcard-style learning toward genuine fluency.

LAFwords currently supports English and Spanish. Both are fully supported — you can add words in either, study them, and progress through the spaced-repetition system.

More languages are on the way. Italian is planned for the next release, followed by German. Each new language requires its own AI work — the example sentences must be linguistically native in that language, not translated from English. We could expand faster by lowering that bar; we won’t.

If your target language isn’t yet supported, you can follow LAFwords on LinkedIn for release announcements.

Anything you actually encounter — a word from a book you’re reading, a phrase from a film, a term from a meeting, an expression in a song you can’t stop replaying. You type it in (or paste it), and within a minute or two it comes back as a card with ten varied sentences, an image, and native pronunciation. The point is that LAFwords meets the language where you actually meet it — rather than serving you a pre-built list someone else compiled.

LAFwords generates each word’s ten example sentences using advanced language models, with several layers of validation built around them. Each sentence is dictionary-checked, parsed, and verified to use the target word in a real, native-sounding way — and to actually contain the target word in the form you entered. The AI handles scale; the validation pipeline handles correctness.

Mistakes can still happen — AI isn’t perfect, especially at the edges of word usage. When you spot one, every card has a flag button: tap it, and the issue goes to my personal review queue. From there I regenerate or remove the bad sentence. The model improves over time precisely because real learners catch the things the validation missed.

Yes — a 7-day free trial, no credit card required. You sign up with just an email and get full access to everything in the app for a week. If LAFwords isn’t for you, you walk away having lost nothing.

After the trial: $7.99 per month, or $59.99 per year (which saves about 37%). One plan, all features. Regional purchasing-power pricing is automatically applied for visitors from countries where the standard price would be disproportionately high — you’ll see the adjusted price in the pricing section below if it applies to you.