About Beelang

What Beelang teaches

Three languages taken two at a time: English, French and Russian. Nobody learns the language they are already reading in, so that makes six courses rather than three — an English speaker comes for Russian or for French, a French speaker for Russian or for English, a Russian speaker for French or for English.

Every course goes from the first character to level B2. The courses written in English fit on one page.

How it teaches

Start where the wall is

The Russian course starts with the alphabet: 33 Cyrillic letters in eight days, with the look-alikes flagged — Р reads r, Н reads n, В reads v. The French course starts with reading, because French writes more than it says: final -e, -s, -t and -ent are silent. The English course starts with sound, for a learner whose own language has no th and puts the stress somewhere else.

The traps of your language, not somebody else’s

What gets flagged depends on the language you arrive with. English took thousands of words from French, so an English speaker learning French starts with hundreds already known — and with the handful that look identical and are not: la librairie is a bookshop, not a library. On the Russian course it is the alphabet that lies first, which is why it comes first.

Grammar by colour

One colour per Russian case, per French determiner, per English tense, with a single sentence of explanation under each. You recognise them before you can recite them, and there is no endings table to memorise.

What you missed comes back

A word missed in a lesson returns in the review deck ten minutes later, then the next day, then six days after that, depending on how well you found it again. That is spaced repetition: words come back just as they were about to slip, rather than at random.

One lesson a day

A lesson takes five minutes and is enough for the day. The streak counts consecutive days with at least one lesson finished. Hearts — five a day, one per wrong answer — are back to five the next day.

There are daily quests too, and a weekly league where the first name on your account is shown next to your score for the week. Nothing else from the account is shown there.

Your progress is yours

Beelang keeps your progress on your own device and works with no account at all. An account is what carries it further: signed in, your points, your streak, your hearts, the lessons you have finished and your review cards are also on our server, and a second device picks them up.

There is no advertising, and we do not sell personal information. This website counts its visits with Google Analytics, only if you agree to it. The Android app counts how it is used with Google Analytics for Firebase, so that we can improve the course, never for advertising; you can stop it at any time in Settings › Privacy. It also sends crash reports, so that we can fix what breaks. A partner’s link that carries a discount code is remembered — in your browser, for thirty days — only if you accept cookies; the code itself works either way, and a purchase made with it credits the partner. What we do process, and why, is set out in the Privacy Policy.

The trial, and Beelang

Beelang is a paid subscription that starts with a seven-day free trial. It opens every lesson of every level, with unlimited hearts, word-by-word pronunciation correction through the microphone, and the course’s grammar sheets. The price and any trial are shown before you pay, and Help answers the rest.

Beela

The bee who keeps you company is called Beela. She explains, she cheers, and she does not take a wrong answer personally.

Writing to us

Team Beelang
E-mail: accounts@beelang.app

For a practical question, start with Help.