Orca
The fun way to learn a new language
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The fun way to learn a new language
127 followers
Orca, the fun way to learn a new language. Speak fluently and build confidence with bite-sized lessons built around real-life phrases. Each level teaches 15 everyday expressions, followed by an interactive pronunciation game you must pass to move forward. Challenge other learners, climb the leaderboard, and stay motivated while improving your speaking, listening, and reading skills for real conversations.
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@ahmedbna Hi Ahmed, congrats on the launch. Is the science behind this repetition/immersion or something else?
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@zolani_matebese Thanks Zolani!
The approach is based on a mix of repetition, immersion, and active recall. Each lesson gives you 15 practical phrases with translation and audio so you can see and hear them repeatedly. Then the game reinforces learning by making you actively pronounce each phrase correctly to pass the level.
It’s designed so that by the time you move to the next lesson, the phrases are more likely to stick in your memory and feel natural to use in real conversations.
@ahmedbna Yo! Cool app to train recall! Just an idea: what if language teachers and tutors could upload the active vocabulary lists to the app, so that their students could work on them off-class? Another thought is that it could help non-beginners to expand vocabulary that they pick across mediums. Cool mascot, btw, I love orcas!
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@davidkaufmann Thanks David — that’s actually on our roadmap for the next release. We’re planning to let all could upload custom vocabulary or phrases lists like your list you came up with a book or movie, stay tuned
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Maybe one question – wouldn't be distracting for the learners to have a dynamic screen (swimming orca) and learn the new vocabulary? My attention was a little bit divided. 😅
@busmark_w_nika It happened the same to me
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@busmark_w_nika @danimirror
Here’s how it works: first, you learn the lesson. Each lesson gives you 15 practical phrases with translations and audio, so you can read, listen, and understand them.
The swimming orca animation part comes in the game afterward: where you need to pronounce all 15 phrases correctly to pass the level and unlock the next lesson.
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@busmark_w_nika During the lesson itself, the screen is calm and focused so you can fully concentrate on the 15 real-life phrases. The swimming orca animation only appears in the game phase, where the goal is to test your pronunciation and focus before unlocking the next level.
The animation is used intentionally in the game to simulate a bit of real-world distraction — if you can pronounce the phrases correctly there, you’re much more likely to recall them in real conversations.
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@ahmedbna aaaa, so it is also an attention training partially :D
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Congrats on the launch! The bite-sized, phrase-first speaking focus is gold.
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@zeiki_yu Thanks
@ahmedbna hello, congratulations on the launch!
did I understand correctly that the learning process is done by voice, the point is to pronounce phrases correctly?
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@new_user___34620255be6c913c5c85d4c Thanks Maxim!
Not quite — here’s how it works: first, you learn the lesson. Each lesson gives you 15 practical phrases with translations and audio, so you can read, listen, and understand them.
The voice part comes in the game afterward: you need to pronounce all 15 phrases correctly to pass the level and unlock the next lesson. So learning isn’t done by voice, but the game uses your pronunciation to make sure you really remember and can say the phrases confidently.
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Looks interesting! Is it totally free? I'm starting to learn Spanish from zero, will it help?
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@kate_ramakaieva Yes — Orca is free and it’s designed to help absolute beginners, so starting Spanish from zero is exactly what it’s built for!
I actually built Orca while learning German from absolute zero myself. I wanted a simple way to focus on real, everyday phrases and practice speaking them confidently, not just study theory.
Each lesson teaches you 15 practical phrases you’d actually use in conversation, and then the game helps you practice speaking them until you’re confident. Good Luck Kate.
Really like the focus on speaking and pronunciation. How do you evaluate pronunciation accuracy across different accents, and how strict is the feedback?
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@cathy_cc Orca focus on clarity and intelligibility, not sounding native. The system is accent-tolerant and checks whether the phrase is pronounced clearly enough to be understood in real conversations.