LingoRoots vs Open Dictation

Learn the language you want to speak with your child. LingoRoots helps parents build confidence in another language through everyday family conversations, guided practice, and personal flashcards. Whether you're starting from scratch, reconnecting with your heritage language, or learning your partner's language, start with words that matter to your family. FIND THE WORDS YOU WANT TO SAY Use Live Translate to translate your speech into the language you're learning. Hear the translation and explore phrases you can use with your child. TURN CONVERSATIONS INTO FLASHCARDS Save vocabulary from your Live Translate conversations as flashcards. Revisit the words you've needed in real life and build a collection that reflects your family. PRACTICE FOR EVERYDAY FAMILY MOMENTS Explore routine packs and guided lessons for situations such as mealtime, getting dressed, sharing, and bedtime. Listen to phrases and practice saying them before you need them. KEEP YOUR LEARNING CLOSE Return to saved conversations, flashcards, and lessons in your Library. Review familiar words and keep practicing the ones you're still learning. MADE FOR PARENTS WHO ARE LEARNING, TOO You don't need to arrive fluent. Begin with a phrase you can use today and build toward more conversations in the language you want to share. LINGOROOTS PLUS A LingoRoots Plus subscription is required for Live Translate, guided conversations, and saving new learning content. Monthly and annual plans are available. Privacy Policy: https://lingorootsapp.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://lingorootsapp.com/terms-of-service

Open Dictation is a listening and dictation trainer for seven languages: Romanian, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, and English. HOW IT WORKS A native speaker sentence plays. No text is shown. You listen, then type what you heard. A character-level diff shows exactly where you went wrong — not just that you made an error, but which characters. The spaced repetition algorithm schedules each sentence to return at the moment your brain is about to forget it. Over thousands of repetitions, your ear sharpens. Sounds you once missed become automatic. This is how children acquire language, compressed into deliberate daily practice. WHAT'S INCLUDED · Thousands of sentences per language — real speakers, natural speech · Instant translations in 13 languages for every sentence · Spaced repetition scheduling based on your personal error history · Sign in with Apple or Google to sync your progress across devices · The web app at sitedictation.com/play runs the same experience in your browser · No account required to start — progress stays on your device FREE TIER + PRO Free tier includes 1,000 unique sentences per language. Pro subscription removes the cap and unlocks the full corpus: 26,000+ Romanian, 70,000+ French, 159,000+ Portuguese, and more. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT IS This is not a gamified app. There are no points, no streaks to protect, no social features. It is a training tool, built by someone who used it daily to reach C1 Romanian.