Kalima vs Spontanika

Learn languages by reading and watching. Articles, videos and books, picked for your level and interests. Find something you want to read or watch, tap the words you don't know, and keep them with spaced-repetition review. FIND SOMETHING YOU'LL ENJOY • Discover articles, videos and books that match your level and interests. • Bring your own: EPUB, PDF, MOBI, FB2, TXT and other ebook and document formats, web articles, videos with captions, or text from a camera scan. • Share a link from Safari or another app straight into Kalima. READ ONE SENTENCE AT A TIME • The reader keeps one sentence in focus as the text flows past. • Tap any word for its meaning and translation, or translate the whole sentence. • Listen with word-by-word highlighting, at a speed that suits you. • Ask about a sentence to have it explained, simplified or broken down. WATCH AND UNDERSTAND • Follow a video line by line with a transcript that keeps pace. • Tap a word to pause the video and see what it means. • Translate a line or slow the video down. SAY IT OUT LOUD • Read a sentence aloud and see which words you got right, with a score for every try. KEEP THE WORDS YOU FIND • Save words with the sentence you found them in. • Review with flashcards scheduled by FSRS spaced repetition. • See your week at a glance and choose how many new words to learn each day. • Import vocabulary exports (CSV) and flashcard decks (.apkg), keeping each deck's review history. 18 LANGUAGES Learn English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Polish, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Indonesian, Vietnamese or Hebrew. Kalima itself is available in all 18. MAKE IT YOURS Choose your text size, font and a light or dark theme. KALIMA PRO Kalima Pro adds AI voices, Ask, speaking practice, sync across devices and higher limits. SUBSCRIPTIONS Kalima Pro offers monthly and annual auto-renewing subscriptions. Eligible new subscribers may receive a 7-day free trial on either plan; Apple determines eligibility, which is shared across the subscription group. Your localized price is shown before purchase. Kalima keeps analytics pseudonymous and does not send your imported text, book titles, saved words, definitions, URLs, or searches to analytics. Privacy Policy: https://kalimaapp.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://kalimaapp.com/terms

The announcer names a random word — and you talk about it until the next one arrives. No preparation, no chosen topic, no time to think an answer through: you have to speak at once, out loud, without pauses for "uhm" and without editing yourself. After a few sessions something characteristic happens: words stop being invented and start arriving on their own. That moment — when speech runs ahead of thought — is the whole point of verbal improvisation. Spontanika is a verbal improvisation trainer: an instrument for self-realization and personal development, based on public speaking and improv exercises and on simple techniques for concentrating the attention. Regular speaking practice develops the imagination and mental acuity, builds eloquence and the confidence to think on your feet, and uncovers your creative potential. A SESSION • Pick a duration and how often the word changes; twenty minutes with a new word every two is the usual start • A call-sign warns you of the change, then the word is spoken aloud • The screen can flash instead, for practising in silence • Speak until the word changes — the app keeps time for you WHAT IS INSIDE • Over a thousand nouns in eleven categories, chosen to form vivid images • Your own dictionaries, typed in and switched on alongside the bundled ones • Speech recognition: what you said is kept per word, with your pace and a count of filler words • Practice history and a streak of consecutive days • The word and both timers on the lock screen, in a Live Activity • The full method, with diagrams and examples, right inside the app • Practice together: invite a partner by link — one speaks, the other listens, the word changes on a timer, with video between you; someone without the app can join from the browser • Ten languages — English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Turkish: interface, words and method text switch independently YOUR SPEECH STAYS WITH YOU No accounts and no server of ours: dictionaries and the method ship inside the app, and sessions, transcripts and settings are kept on your device alone. Speech recognition is done by the phone's own system — some languages on the device, the rest on its servers. The app collects anonymous usage statistics — how long a session ran and how many words it covered — never the words you say. When you practice together, video and audio travel directly between the two devices; our server only introduces them and records nothing. The verbal improvisation method was devised in 2014 and refined over hundreds of sessions since. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to everyone who directly or indirectly contributed to the creation of Spontanika. Special thanks to: • Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) — for the practices of spontaneity • Sergey Bazarov — master of "The Art of Living" • Tatyana Fadeeva — public speaking teacher • Sergey Kazakov — master of acting improvisation • Natalya Tretyakova — acting teacher • Alexander Randelf — public speaking teacher • Maxim Medvedev — acting teacher Terms of use: https://www.arsidian.com/terms/ Privacy policy: https://www.arsidian.com/privacy/