Evidence-based learning technique
Improve your Indonesian while enjoying world's best books
Lingo7 is a mobile app for learning Indonesian by reading real books. Every sentence appears as parallel text, so you tap any word for an instant translation, hear native narration, and save new words to review later. It works on iOS and Android, and you can import your own books in Indonesian.
Every Indonesian sentence is shown side by side with its English translation. You read naturally, absorbing Indonesian vocabulary and grammar in context, no stopping to look up words.
Turn on the audio and follow along with your eyes, a great way to level up your Indonesian listening and pronunciation.
Spaced repetition is one of the most rigorously studied learning techniques of the last century, repeatedly shown to outperform cramming and re-reading by a wide margin. Lingo7 tracks every word you tap while reading and brings it back for review right before you'd forget it. 14 different exercises, from quick recognition to active recall, typing and pronunciation, strengthen memory from every angle.
See a word and pick the correct translation from four options
Listen to a word and choose the correct translation, trains your ear
Build the word letter by letter from scrambled characters
See a word and a translation, quickly decide if it's correct
Pronounce the word and get instant accuracy feedback
Try to recall the translation from memory before revealing it
Your favorite novel, your work textbook, your kid's bedtime story, drop any EPUB, PDF or DOCX into Lingo7 and it becomes a parallel-reading experience in Indonesian. No book is off limits.
Drop in an EPUB, PDF or DOCX and Lingo7 instantly turns every page into parallel reading, original on one side, Indonesian translation on the other. Audio, word saving and spaced-repetition work out of the box.
Want to read a real book in Indonesian, but the words and grammar are still too hard? Lingo7 rewrites the whole book in easier Indonesian, same story, same characters, same ending. Just simpler words and easier grammar, so you can actually read it through.
What this means for you:
Tidak ada yang lebih benar daripada fisiognomi, yang diambil dalam kaitannya dengan cara. Seni membaca buku yang Kebijaksanaan Abadi wajibkan setiap makhluk manusia untuk menyajikan halaman mereka sendiri dengan karakter individu tertulis di atasnya, adalah seni yang sulit, mungkin, dan sedikit dipelajari.
Fisiognomi benar ketika Anda melihat sikap. Seni membaca ekspresi wajah beserta karakter mereka itu sulit. Mungkin ini membutuhkan keterampilan alami.
Hand-picked stories, summaries and articles, already prepared for Indonesian with audio and parallel translation.
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The 5 principles every polyglot uses, built into Lingo7.
Principle: Extensive reading, consuming large volumes of text you can mostly understand, is one of the most research-backed paths to fluency (Krashen's input hypothesis). The trick is removing friction so you can read a lot without stopping.
How Lingo7 helps: Parallel translation sits right next to the original, no dictionary lookups, no breaking flow. Turbo mode highlights words in rhythm if you lose your place, so you can devour pages instead of decoding them.
Principle: Spaced repetition is one of the most rigorously studied learning techniques of the last century. The idea: review each word just before you would have forgotten it, that's when a single repetition strengthens memory the most.
How Lingo7 helps: Lingo7's spaced repetition system tracks every word you save and brings it back at the optimal interval. You don't schedule anything, the algorithm handles timing, and 14 different exercises keep memory sharp from every angle.
Principle: Polyglots don't memorize every word in order, they focus on the ones that pay off. High-frequency words dominate everyday language: a few hundred of the most common words are enough to start understanding real books, conversations, and articles.
How Lingo7 helps: Two frequency-ranked starter collections built from corpus data, the 100 most popular words to get off the ground, then 250 more for real traction. Available in 49 languages. Learn the minimum that gives you the maximum, instead of chasing a dictionary you'll never finish.
Principle: Boring textbooks kill motivation. Polyglots choose texts they actually enjoy, favorite books, articles, scripts, because interest is what sustains daily practice for months and years, not willpower.
How Lingo7 helps: A large, growing library across genres, classic novels, contemporary articles, topic summaries. You pick what you actually care about, not what a textbook assigns. Interest does the hard work of keeping you consistent.
Principle: Real progress happens when reading, listening, vocabulary, and pronunciation reinforce each other. A word you've read, heard, and pronounced is remembered in a way that isolated drilling can't match, overall results grow stronger than the sum of individual exercises.
How Lingo7 helps: One session covers all four: you read a page with parallel translation, listen to the narration with word-by-word highlighting, tap new words to save them, and practice pronunciation on the ones you learn. Four skills trained in parallel, in 7-15 minutes a day.
Indonesian is FSI Category II (about 900 hours) and is often cited as one of the easiest Asian languages for English speakers. It has no tones, no verb conjugation, no grammatical gender, and uses the Latin alphabet. Reading Indonesian texts is accessible from early stages due to simple grammar and phonetic spelling.
Indonesian and Malay are standardized varieties of the same language (Malay), with about 80% mutual intelligibility. They differ in some vocabulary, spelling conventions, and loanword sources (Indonesian borrows more from Dutch and Javanese, Malaysian from English and Arabic). Reading one provides strong access to the other.
About 199 million people speak Indonesian as a first or second language, making it one of the most widely spoken languages globally. It serves as the national lingua franca of Indonesia, which has over 700 indigenous languages. Its simplicity was intentionally designed to unite this diverse nation.
Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country with a rapidly growing digital economy. Indonesian is useful for business in Southeast Asia, travel across the archipelago, and accessing a rich literary tradition. Its relative simplicity makes it rewarding to learn quickly through reading.
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