Kilo Lingo Plus
Every story, every drill, every game. In every language.
11 languages, one subscription
Spanish, French, Mandarin, English, Esperanto, Latin, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Japanese
- graded readers
- 553
- graded readers
- grammar lessons
- 756
- grammar lessons
- words to learn
- 30,932
- words to learn
Graded stories from chapter 1, a grammar article and drill for every point, a whole games arcade, printable worksheets and the next lesson by email each morning. Chapters 1 and 2 are free for good; try the rest for a free week, when you are ready, then $5 a month or $50 a year (twelve months for the price of ten), for every language at once.
Launch price: $5 a month or $50 a year, rising to $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year for new subscribers on 1 December.
Subscribe before then and you keep the launch price for as long as you stay subscribed.
29 days left at the launch price
Cancel any time. We never delete your progress; it pauses if you stop.
One price covers all eleven languages, and a second or third costs nothing extra.
- graded-reader stories
- 553
- grammar articles
- 756
- lessons on the trail
- 5,039
- words taught, commonest first
- 21,874
- languages
- 11
Counted from the course itself, not rounded up.
Free and Plus, side by side
The words and grammar stay free to read for good. Plus adds every graded reader past chapter 2, the story and grammar drills, the games, the emails, the audio and everything you can print, export or frame.
Launch price: $5 a month or $50 a year, rising to $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year for new subscribers on 1 December.
29 days left at the launch price
| What you get | Free | Plus 7-day free trial | Try it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Learn all eleven languages with one subscription | The reading, in all eleven | Everything below, in all eleven | The Spanish course |
| Read every graded reader and finish its comprehension drill | Chapters 1 and 2 | Every story past chapter 2 | A chapter 1 story |
| Practise every grammar rule until it sticks | Chapters 1 and 2 | Every article and lesson | A grammar drill |
| Play the arcade: 12 games on your words | Chapters 1 and 2 | Every chapter | A chapter 1 game |
| Print worksheets, cheatsheets and story PDFs | Chapters 1 and 2 | Every chapter | A worksheet |
| Learn by email: your next words, a grammar tip and a quick question The padlock and Plus mark show a Kilo Lingo Plus feature. Start your free week to unlock it - no card needed. | Every chapter, every language | ||
| Hear every word and story spoken aloud | Chapters 1 and 2 | All 15,000+ words and every story | A word with audio |
| Review every word that comes due | Chapters 1 and 2 unlimited, then 20 words a day | Unlimited | Daily review |
| Access to the IPA drills | Lessons 1 and 2 | All ten lessons, in General American and British RP | IPA lesson 1 |
| Print a certificate for each chapter you pass | Chapters 1 and 2 | Every chapter | Chapter certificates |
| Certificates The padlock and Plus mark show a Kilo Lingo Plus feature. Start your free week to unlock it - no card needed. | Verified 1,000 and 5,000-word exams, with a shareable link | The 1,000-word exam | |
| Export your words to Anki (CSV) The padlock and Plus mark show a Kilo Lingo Plus feature. Start your free week to unlock it - no card needed. | |||
| Compete on the weekly leaderboard | Anonymous | By name, with your profile | This week's board |
| Read every word page, grammar article and list | The core 1,000 list | ||
| Follow the curriculum lessons and word drills | Chapters 1 and 2 | Every chapter, ongoing | Chapter 1, lesson 2 |
| Keep your progress saved to your account | Chapters 1 and 2, always | Always saved, always moving | |
$5 a month, cancel any time No card needed for trial |
Chapters 1 and 2 of every course are completely free, forever.
Learn by email The padlock and Plus mark show a Kilo Lingo Plus feature. Start your free week to unlock it - no card needed.
Keep learning on the days you never open the site
One email each morning, around 7am your time, built from where you actually are in each course. Read it on the bus, answer one question, and the day counts.
- Your next wordsWords from your next lesson, marked preview, topped up with the ones due for review. Nothing runs ahead of where you are in the course.
- A grammar tip from your chapterThe next grammar tip from the chapter you are in, in course order, so the subjunctive does not turn up in your first week.
- One ten-second questionOne tap from the email opens a single question with three answers. No app, no sign-in. Get it right and it keeps your streak and pays a few XP.
- Every language, one emailLearning more than one language? They all go in the same email, each matched to where you are in that course. Choose languages, how many words, and daily or weekly in your email settings.
The daily email is part of Plus, for every chapter and every word list you pick (GCSE, HSK, core 5,000). Your free week includes all of it.
Choose what we send youKilo Lingo <hello@kilolingo.com> 07:00
Your daily tasks: 4 Spanish words, 1 French tip
Spanish: 3 new words, 1 to review
Preview
- ciudad - city
- calle - street
- cerca - near
Review
siempre - always
French tip
Most adjectives follow the noun: une voiture rouge, a red car.
One quick question
What does cerca mean?
All 11 languages, in one subscription. Spanish, French, Mandarin, English, Esperanto, Latin, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Japanese: the stories, lessons, drills and daily learning email for all of them, $5 a month in total. There are no ads and no higher tier to upgrade to, and we don't sell your data.
Why learn with Kilo Lingo?
Because the order you learn words in matters. The 1,000 most frequent words of a language make up roughly 80% of the words you hear in everyday speech, so we teach those first and build everything else on top of them.
The syllabus is a frequency list
Every course follows a real frequency list (words ranked by how often native speakers use them), and each chapter teaches the next batch in order, up to 5,000 words. You learn "I need" long before "elephant".
Stories you can read
Our graded readers are written to a strict vocabulary ceiling. A core-1000 story may only use the 1,000 most common words, and an automated check refuses to publish one that cheats. You finish whole stories at your level instead of drowning in a dictionary.
Grammar that explains why
Every grammar point has its own plain-English article with worked examples and a drill. You understand the rule rather than guessing at the pattern.
The most frequent 1,000 English word families make up about 81-84% of the running words in spoken English (Nation, 2006); the exact share differs by language. Sources and their limits are on the methodology page.
Everything Plus switches on, in detail
553 graded readers
Stories written to a vocabulary ceiling, so you read at your level instead of drowning in a dictionary. The chapter 1 and 2 stories are free; Plus opens every graded reader past chapter 2, each read aloud sentence by sentence and ending in its comprehension drill.
756 grammar articles
Across eleven languages, free to read forever. Each one ends in exercises that make the rule stick, and those exercises are the Plus half.
Twelve games, plus KiloKombat Members only
Word Bubbles, Crossword, Trader, Sentence Scramble, Flashcards and the Daily Word, each course's own (Gender Swiper, Article Hunt, the Conjugation and Declension Sprints, the Mandarin Tone Shooter), and KiloKombat duels against other learners. All of them play the words you are learning, and members appear on the weekly leaderboard by name.
Printable PDFs and worksheets Members only
Worksheets, cheatsheets and bilingual story PDFs for every lesson, story and word. Print them, teach from them, keep them.
Learn by email Members only
Your next words, a grammar tip drawn from the same 756 articles and a ten-second question, every morning, for every language you learn.
Audio on every word and story Members only
Spoken audio across eleven courses: each word alone, then inside a real sentence, then alone again. Every graded reader is narrated too, a sentence at a time, highlighted as it plays. Chapters 1 and 2 of every course play free, forever; Plus turns on the other 15,000 words and every story past chapter 2.
Drills on 30,932 words
Recognise it, recall it, type it, build it from tiles, take it by ear. Spaced repetition decides what comes back and when.
Unlimited review Members only
Free accounts review 20 due words a day; Plus reviews everything, every day. More reviews mean more retrieval practice, and retrieval is what makes words stick.
Certificates Members only
A dated certificate with your name on it for every chapter quiz you pass. Then the timed certification exam at 1,000 words (and 5,000 in Spanish): pass with 80% and the certificate gets its own verification link, ready for LinkedIn, a CV or print. The IPA course has its own, for passing its final test.
Access to the IPA drills Members only
The IPA course is free to read. Plus opens the drills in all ten lessons, and General American beside British RP in every English comparison, so you can read any dictionary's pronunciation and hear the difference.
Export your words Members only
Every word you are learning as a CSV that drops straight into Anki or a spreadsheet. It's your vocabulary, so you should have the file.
Audio training (coming soon) Members only
Speak into your microphone and get feedback on your pronunciation, checked against the course's own audio. Rolling out now as an experimental Plus feature.
The audio is text-to-speech: computer-generated voices, chosen by ear for each language.
Certificates, verified
A timed exam on the words each course teaches first, and a final test for the IPA course. Pass it and the certificate gets its own link, for LinkedIn, a CV or anyone who asks.
How the free week works
- 1
Create a free account. Chapters 1 and 2 of every course are yours straight away, and stay free.
- 2
Start your free week when you want the rest: tap "Start your free week" here or at any Plus padlock. Seven days of everything, no card. We email you the day before it is up.
- 3
Subscribe for $5 a month to keep going. If you do not, nothing is lost: chapters 1 and 2 of every course are completely free, forever, and they keep saving. The rest of your progress is kept safe, read-only, and unlocks the moment you subscribe.
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