Soma surrounds you with the language you're learning — original songs sung word by word, spoken stories and dialogues, YouTube videos turned into lessons, speech to shadow and pictures to name. Every word you meet is explained in your own language and kept in one spaced-repetition review.
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The real karaoke player, running on this page: each word lights up as it's sung, with the line's meaning underneath.
Choose the language you want everything explained in — the interface, the meaning of every word, the translation under every song and story line.
Everything in Soma is something to listen to, read, watch, say or look at — in the language you're learning, built around the words you'll meet most often. Whatever you pick up lands in the same review.
Original songs in every language Soma teaches, sung karaoke-style: each word lights up as it's sung, with the meaning of every line underneath. Loop a line, slow it down, keep a word.
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Short spoken stories and conversations, sorted by level from first steps up, with every word synced to natural audio. Follow along, or shadow one speaker's part.
Paste a YouTube link. Soma fetches the captions — or transcribes the audio when there are none — highlights each word as it's spoken and pulls out the vocabulary and grammar worth keeping.
Repeat after natural audio — a script Soma writes for you, or any passage you paste — and get scored on accuracy and fluency, word by word, down to the syllable.
A picture dictionary of everyday words — the picture, the word, its meaning in your language — and your own photos turned into vocabulary, a description or a short story.
Words and whole lines from songs, stories, videos, shadowing and pictures go into one spaced-repetition queue. The FSRS scheduler brings each one back just before you'd forget it.
The one you're learning — choose from 11 languages — and the one you want it explained in. Sign in; the Free plan needs no card.
Sing a song, listen to a story, watch a video you actually like, shadow a speaker. Tap any word you don't know to see what it means.
Add a word — or a whole line — in one tap. Your daily review brings it back just before you'd forget it.
Every plan includes every song, story and picture in the languages it covers. Prices in USD.
Start here
$0
For daily learners
$9.99/month
For heavy AI use
$24.99/month
Checkout and billing run through Polar (merchant of record) in USD; cancel anytime in one click.
Learning from the language itself — songs, stories, dialogues, videos, speech and pictures — instead of drills. Soma keeps it understandable: the meaning of every word in your own language, lines you can loop and slow down, and one review that brings back what you met.
English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean — eleven in all.
Any of twenty-three: English, Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Kannada, Gujarati, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), French, Italian, German, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Thai. The app's interface comes in the same twenty-three, so you can use Soma entirely in your own language.
Yes. The Free plan gives you one language, with every song, story and picture in it, spaced-repetition reviews and a few AI tries a day. Pro ($9.99/month) covers up to 3 languages; Max ($24.99/month) covers all 11 languages.
Right now it's a web app that works in any mobile browser — native iOS and Android apps are coming soon.
Checkout and billing run through Polar (merchant of record) in USD; cancel anytime in one click.
Pick a language and press play on your first song. The Free plan needs no card.