Speakka

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Speakka is a finished vocabulary game, live at speakka.com, and it works in both directions. If your native language is English, you learn one of 8 languages — Spanish, French, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese or Arabic. If it isn't, you learn English with the whole interface in your own language. Same game, same content, two markets. Words fall Tetris-style and you slide them into columns to build groups. There are three kinds: • Vocabulary — a word and its translation (meat / carne) • Synonyms — two words that mean the same, plus the translation covering both (happy / glad / feliz) • Irregular verbs — the three forms in the correct order (go / went / gone); getting the order right scores a bonus Complete a group and it blows off, dropping everything above it and setting off chain reactions. Put a word in the wrong column and it stacks — clear groups before you run out of space. I built it because flashcard apps teach recognition, not recall. Playing a word under time pressure fixes it in a way rereading never does. The whole thing is done and working — what it has never had is anyone marketing it. I'm selling because I have more projects than I can market and my attention has gone to another product.