Speak It Up: Learn Languages

Order coffee in Lisbon. Joke with a taxi driver in Tokyo. Make friends in Barcelona, in their language.

Speak It Up turns the hours you already spend at your Mac into the words you'll need out in the world:

• Find your way, read the menu and ask the locals what's worth seeing.

• Answer when someone speaks to you, and watch their face light up.

• Turn chance meetings into real conversations, and strangers into friends.

• Step off the plane ready, so the adventure starts the moment you land.

Learn While You Work

No lessons to schedule. No streaks to keep alive. Speak It Up lives in a small window in the corner of your screen, floating above whatever you're doing. It shows one word at a time, says it aloud, then reveals the translation. Catch it between emails, while a file downloads, over your morning coffee. A handful of words repeat until they stick, then fresh ones roll in. Minutes become hours, hours become hundreds of words, and you never once sat down to study.

Getting started takes seconds. Built-in dictionaries of the most common words get you going in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Ukrainian. You can also build your own. Record words in your own voice, import your lists from a text file, mark the ones you've mastered, and style the window to suit your desktop.

Try it free with up to 50 words per language pair. When you're ready for more, a single purchase removes the limit for good. No subscription.

Wherever you're going next, arrive speaking.