Guides
Beginner guides to the world's most-searched languages
Each guide covers the writing system, the sounds that trip English speakers up, the grammar worth knowing first, everyday phrases with pronunciation, common mistakes, and a 40-word starter plan you can practise straight away.
- РусскийHow to learn RussianCyrillic alphabet (33 letters) · around 255 million speakers
- हिन्दीHow to learn HindiDevanagari script · over 600 million speakers including second-language users
- తెలుగుHow to learn TeluguTelugu script · over 80 million speakers
- தமிழ்How to learn TamilTamil script · around 85 million speakers
- 普通话How to learn Mandarin ChineseChinese characters, with Pinyin romanisation · over 1.1 billion speakers
- فارسیHow to learn Persian (Farsi)Perso-Arabic script, written right to left · around 110 million speakers
- العربيةHow to learn ArabicArabic script, written right to left · over 370 million speakers
- 한국어How to learn KoreanHangul alphabet · around 80 million speakers
- 日本語How to learn JapaneseHiragana, katakana and kanji · around 125 million speakers
- TürkçeHow to learn TurkishLatin alphabet (29 letters) · around 90 million speakers