Inko

Thank you and hello, in every languageWith pronunciation, and the replies you'll hear back

The first thing you actually say abroad is a greeting. Here are 12 languages, each ordered by what is worth learning first. Pick one.

Five phrases is genuinely enough, in any language

You do not need to work through a phrasebook before you go. Almost everything a traveller says falls into five shapes: thank you, hello, excuse me, how much is it, I don't understand. Every page below is ordered that way.

Getting those five automatic beats memorising twenty. Twenty phrases you have to search your memory for are worth nothing at the moment you need them.

The hard part is not speaking, it is understanding the reply

Almost every phrasebook only covers what you say. What actually stops people is the second after they finish talking, when the other person answers. How many of you. For here or to go. Card or cash. Each page lets you filter to "You hear" so you can read the replies before you go.

Reading a phrase is not the same as saying it

You can recognise every phrase on these pages and still freeze at the counter, because there is no time to think. Inko lets you speak out loud to an AI for 60 seconds a day, and afterwards shows you what you could have said instead.

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