Allegra - Learn Swiss Romansch

Allegra teaches Sursilvan — the Romansh of the Surselva valleys, spoken at the top of the Rhine. Not "Romansh" in general. Romansh has five written standards and a sixth, Rumantsch Grischun, built in the 1980s to sit above them. This app teaches Sursilvan, the idiom with the most speakers, and says so on the first screen. A COURSE YOU CLIMB The 17 chapters are laid out as a route from the valley floor to the summit — Val at the start, a Camona halfway, Spitg at the top. The ibex marks where you are standing. WHAT IS IN IT • 85 lessons, from your first Allegra to talking about work, weather, family and grief • 1,535 words, each with its meaning, its pronunciation and a Sursilvan example sentence • 24 dialogues — the restaurant, the station, the doctor, a job interview, a village feast — and you can take a part in them • A dictionary of every word the course teaches, searchable in five languages • Flashcards with spaced repetition, and a word you miss in practice comes back to your deck • A word each day and a 60-second daily challenge • Two home-screen widgets: today's word, and your daily goal with your streak PRACTICE THAT EXPLAINS ITSELF Matching, filling the gap, typing the word, multiple choice, masculine or feminine, and putting a sentence back in order. Get one wrong and the app shows you why: the word with its gender and pronunciation, its meaning in your language, and the sentence it was taught in. For about a hundred words that break the pattern there is a tip. A LITTLE EVERY DAY Set a daily goal of 50, 100 or 200 XP and watch the ring close. Keep a streak — one missed day a week is forgiven. Twenty badges mark the milestones, each pressed like a wax seal. The goal, the streak, the badges and your progress are free for everyone. MEANINGS IN FOUR LANGUAGES Every word is glossed in English, German, Italian and French, and you can switch at any time. WHY THE WORDS ARE RIGHT A learner cannot tell a correct word from a plausible one. That is the whole problem with a small-language course, and it is what this app is built around. Every Romansh word here is traceable to the Pledari Grond, the dictionary of the Lia Rumantscha — attested, with the meaning the app claims for it. The grammar is checked too: articles, contractions and agreement follow Sursilvan, not another idiom. The proverbs are the dictionary's own. And if you find one that is wrong, you can report it from the screen it is on. The app opens a mail draft with a picture of the screen; nothing is sent until you send it. WHAT IS NOT CLAIMED No native speaker has reviewed these sentences. They are checked word by word and grammatical, and whether they sound like something a person would actually say is not something a dictionary can tell you. The German, Italian and French glosses are a careful machine pass, labelled as such inside the app. FREE AND PREMIUM The Basics chapter, the first two dialogues and one daily challenge a day are free, with no time limit and no account. Premium opens all 85 lessons, all 24 dialogues, all 1,535 flashcards and unlimited daily challenges. Monthly, yearly with a free week, or once and for good. FOR WHOM People with family in the Grisons. Anyone curious what Switzerland's fourth national language sounds like. And Romansh speakers who never learned to write it. Grazia fetg for learning it. A language of forty thousand notices one more. Allegra. Beinvegni. Terms of Use: https://kk-studio.ch/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://kk-studio.ch/privacy/