Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Selam
Learn Amharic from native Ethiopian speakers
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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First TTS model to support all 22 Indic languages + English
2024 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, For over two years I've been working on an App to learn languages (currently French, Italian and Spanish), together with my partner, a language teacher. I think it is finally ready to share with this community! The idea is to introduce vocabulary and grammar whilst you read eBooks in your own language. I've found that it is easier to remember vocabulary 'in context' and with regular repetition. Plus you don't have to carve out dedicated time for language learning. Other apps require you to build a habit around various exercises or ‘games’, whereas lots of people already read books.…
2024 · glossarie.app · its alternatives →
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Actually learn a new language without any of the fuss
2024 · airlearn.com · its alternatives →
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Here is a tool I built initially for myself to help with my German and Greek language studies. It started as a hack for creating Anki cards from native language audio. It extracts the words, finds their base forms (lemmas) and groups the examples by the lemma. At some point I realised that I have a transcription with word level timestamps that opens a lot of other opportunities. So I added a mode to click the first and last word in the transcript and it starts looping with the right gap and repeat count. Another feature I use a lot is selecting an audio fragment, sending a predefined prompt…
Jun 2026 · lingochunk.com · its alternatives →
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Angula▲12Learn African languages using the voices of native speakers
2022 · angula.app · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I'm pythonbrad and a core maintainer of Afrim - an input method engine for African languages. Afrim want to simplify the typing in African languages and also digitalize the African typing systems. Basically, it wants to solve the problems encountered with current solutions: - slow typing - not easily configurable - keyboard layout dependent - constant bugs Additionally, Afrim offers the following features [1]: - Dataset easily customizable - Keyboard layout independent - Auto completion, autocorrection and autosuggestion - Support all sequential codes Technical details [2]: Afrim…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Learn a new language with live streamed classes
2021 · chatterbug.com · its alternatives →
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Sharing a friends first-ever Rails application, dedicated to Arabic learning, from 0 to 1. Pulls language learning methods from Anki, comprehensible input and more.
Mar 2026 · abjadpro.com · its alternatives →
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Lingbe 2▲72Free real-time conversations with native speakers ⚡
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Eskéndereyya: Learn how to read and write Arabic in less than 60 minutes - samihasan/eskendereyya
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Explore Africa's vibrant linguistic landscape.
2023 · lughayangu.com · its alternatives →
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Today I launched an Imba course for Scrimba.com. Imba is an amazing language for building web applications, that deserves more attention. Watch my announcement video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDSIsvZJhow Take the course (it's free): https://www.scrimba.com/learn/imba Some context: I fell in love with the Imba programming language a couple years ago and quit my job to spend all my time building projects with Imba. The first one being TaskTXT (https://www.tasktxt.com), a plaintext notepad with built-in timers. It's full of UI details that…
2022 · scrimba.com · its alternatives →
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Recently moved to Egypt, and in dire need to get the numbers down. Great excuse to explore learning software some more. Possibly very niche, but maybe it is useful for someone else out there. Feedback is always welcome.
2023 · arabic-numbers.koljapluemer.com · its alternatives →
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Best Tandem▲65Practice a new language with native speakers for free
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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