Backwords
Learn a new language right from your wallpaper
Backwords launched on February 4, 2018 with 105 votes, #360 of 2,635 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Backwords is a tiny tool that empowers your desktop. Every day one foreign word will be displayed in the background. Day by day, you'll learn a language right from your wallpaper. Currently available in four languages: • Chinese (Mandarin, simplified characters) • Korean • Japanese (Kanji) • Dutch
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