Lisan vs Onymera

Lisan is a language app for beginners and returning learners. Kito, your guide within the app, introduces each lesson and helps you move through the course at a comfortable pace. During setup, you choose a language and tell Lisan how much you already know. Lisan then recommends a starting path covering everyday conversation, letters, Ethiopian culture, or numbers. Lessons are built for short study sessions and can be revisited at any time. AUDIO YOU CAN TRUST Every recording is reviewed for pronunciation before it reaches a lesson. Amharic words, phrases, and base letters are recorded by a native speaker. The full fidel grid and the English course use a reviewed studio voice. WHAT IS INCLUDED • Seven Letter Garden lessons that introduce Fidel one sound at a time. • Four Counting Trail lessons covering numbers from 1 to 20. • Three greeting lessons with polite words and phrases for everyday conversations. • Color Market for learning common color vocabulary. • Animal Trail for listening and vocabulary practice. • Family Picnic, where you arrange words to build a complete Amharic sentence. • 17 Amharic lessons with 72 questions in total. • A starter English course of 10 listening lessons for Amharic speakers and anyone building practical English. LEARNING PATHS Choose a learning path based on your interests: • Everyday conversation • Fidel foundations • People and culture • Guided foundations • Numbers You can change your focus as you continue learning, and each course keeps its own lessons and progress. PROGRESS AND DAILY LEARNING See the current Ethiopian date and traditional Ethiopian time from the Home screen. Set a daily goal and earn XP for every lesson you finish. Track completed lessons, earned stars, learned words, and your current streak. The Practice studio brings back what you have already learned with a short review, and shows how strong each skill has become. Progress is stored directly on your device. No account or sign up is required, and Lisan does not display advertising. WHO LISAN IS FOR Lisan is for people learning Amharic for family, travel, heritage, everyday conversation, or personal interest, and for Amharic speakers who want practical English. The guided course suits complete beginners as well as learners refreshing what they already know. LISAN PREMIUM Five starter lessons are free, covering letters, numbers, greetings, and colors, so you can judge the whole app before paying. Lisan Premium opens all learning paths and lessons, listening and practice activities, and future lesson releases during your subscription. Weekly, monthly, and yearly subscriptions provide the same Premium access. Eligible new subscribers may receive a free three day trial with the yearly plan. Current pricing and trial availability are shown on the purchase screen and may vary by country or region. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Payment will be charged to your Apple ID when you confirm your purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the current subscription period ends. Your Apple ID will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription from your App Store account settings. If you purchase a subscription during a free trial, any unused portion of the trial will be forfeited where applicable. Terms of Use: https://addisstack.com/apps/lisan/terms Privacy Policy: https://addisstack.com/apps/lisan/privacy

A new word, where you already look. Onymera puts a word on your lock screen and changes it about once a minute, so you meet a different one almost every time you glance at your phone. Not a notification. Not a feed. Nothing to open, nothing to remember, no streak to keep alive. NINE LANGUAGES, 32,000 WORDS AND COUNTING, ALL FREE • Korean - 5,965 words: the complete National Institute of Korean Language learner list, beginner through advanced, with Hanja origins where they help. • Japanese - 3,984 words: JLPT N5 and N4, and N3 well under way. Every entry carries its kana reading and romaji. • Chinese - 4,571 words: HSK 1 to 5, and the start of HSK 6, with pinyin. Simplified characters. • English - 4,295 words across four tiers, from everyday to genuinely rare. • Spanish - 2,709 words: CEFR A1, A2 and B1, with IPA so you know where the stress falls. • Portuguese - 2,592 words: A1, A2 and B1. Brazilian: ônibus, trem, celular, você. • French - 2,708 words: CEFR A1, A2 and B1, with IPA for everything the spelling hides. • German - 2,699 words: CEFR A1, A2 and B1, from the Goethe-Institut's own examination lists. • Italian - 2,697 words: CEFR A1, A2 and B1, with open and closed vowels marked. The word lists follow the official curriculum for each language where one exists, and every entry passes the same validator before it ships. Pick a language and the whole rotation follows; your history and saved words are kept separately for each one. EVERY ENTRY HAS A SENTENCE A definition in plain English, under 140 characters. An example sentence where the meaning is obvious from context, with a translation. Tap the widget for the pronunciation, the definition and the sentence, with the last five words you were shown underneath, so a word you half caught is never lost. TELL IT WHAT YOU'RE HEADING INTO Say, in plain English, what words you want to see: "a week in Seoul", "my first job in a Berlin office", "nothing beginner" - and the rotation follows. Thousands of words per language means even a very specific request comes back with a real list. This is the one optional purchase; everything else is free and complete without it. DOWNLOADS ONCE, THEN WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL A language is fetched the first time you pick it - a few hundred kilobytes - and from then on it lives on your phone. No account, no sign-up, nothing to fetch on a plane. The lists keep growing, and each language updates itself the next time you use it: new words arrive without an app update. A LIBRARY THAT FILLS ITSELF Your history is rebuilt from the rotation itself, so it is complete whether or not you opened the app. Save the ones you want to keep. Search by the word, by how it sounds, or by what it means in English. Accents and umlauts are optional: "manana" finds mañana, "schon" finds schön. LOCK SCREEN AND HOME SCREEN A rectangular and an inline widget for the lock screen. Small and medium widgets for the home screen: the small one is a glance, the medium one brings the example sentence with it. All free, and the app shows you how to add them the first time you open it. OPTIONAL: PERSONALIZATION - $2.99, ONCE The steering described above, plus the pace: slow the widget down to one word an hour, or one a day to sit with, rather than a new one every look. Your selection follows you to any device you sign in on. One payment. No subscription, ever. Nothing recurring anywhere in the app. — iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Privacy: onymera.app/privacy