Cradlespeak
acquire language like a child — without translation
Every other app hands you a translation and calls it teaching. Cradlespeak removes the escape hatch. A word is defined by a picture, by the company it keeps, by a room you can hear and walk through, or by words you have already earned — never by "this means that in English."
Why no translation
Adults do not fail at immersion because they are adults. They fail because every tool gives them a way out, and they take it. So there is no gloss anywhere in the product — not in a tooltip, not on a flashcard, not one tap away.
Instead, meaning arrives the way it did the first time: through pictures and symbols, through membership in a set you already know, through audio, through spaces you explore by ear. Vocabulary unlocks in a strict chain, so by the time you meet a word in the wild, a path to it already exists. If a lesson cannot be written in words you have earned, a compiler rejects it — that rule is enforced by software, not by good intentions.
Comprehension first — you are never made to perform
Most learners quit because they are pushed to speak before they are ready. Nothing here demands production. Speaking practice is private, you start it, and you keep the recording. Progress is measured from what you actually did, never from a public performance.
Six ways in
Arachnomind
Word lessons as symbol-dense compositions. Tap any piece of notation to open the concept behind it.
Prime Mentality
Arcade puzzles teaching logic, set notation, and emoji composition — 🌊 + ❄️ = 🧊. No words needed to start.
BootEye
Audio-only 3D places — a bakery, an airport, a campsite. You navigate by sound and spoken direction.
Backstage
Real books with spaced repetition, where your grade comes from what you typed and recited, not a button you pressed.
Open Mic
Private speaking practice. Record when you choose; get a transcript and feedback. Nobody is listening.
Native Gateway
Bring your own books, comics and podcasts. The platform analyses them and the other modes teach from them.
Languages
| Language | Status | What ships today |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | Complete | Full word-lesson curriculum, all six modes, audio, books |
| English | Complete | Full word-lesson curriculum, all six modes, audio, books |
| Cebuano | Early | Games, environments, audio and books — word lessons in development |
| Tagalog | Early | Games, environments, audio and books — word lessons in development |
An unfinished language is not for sale at all
Cebuano and Tagalog do not have their word-lesson curriculum yet, and a course without its spine is not a course. So we do not sell them — not cheaply, not for a token amount. You download them and use the free tier, and there is no way to pay us for one. A small price still asks you to trust a promise, and there is no reason you should.
The free tier grows as the curriculum is written — more of those 1,000 lessons land each month. When a language is finally complete it goes on sale, and by then you will have spent months inside it and will know exactly whether it is worth buying.
What it costs
| What | Price | Details |
|---|---|---|
| A language still in development | Free | No word-lesson curriculum yet, so there is nothing to charge for. It grows. |
| A complete language, today | $50 | One payment, no subscription. Yours permanently, on 2 devices. |
| The same language, fully checked | $300 | What it will cost once every category has been reviewed by a person. |
| A book's vocabulary | $9 | The word list for one specific title, on 2 devices. |
| A book, for a family | $18 | The same, on up to 10 devices. |
| AI features | Pay as you go | Optional. Top up a balance; spend it only when you ask for something. |
The price only goes up — so the cheapest day to buy is today
Most of this was written by machine. That is how one person built a corpus this size, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What turns it from a lot of content into a trustworthy course is a human reading it and vouching for it, category by category — and that work is only starting.
Right now, none of it has been checked. That is why a complete language is $50 and not $300. As review progresses the price climbs with it, and it climbs continuously rather than in jumps: roughly $150 at a third checked, $225 at two thirds, $300 when every category is done.
If you buy at $50, you keep everything that comes after, free. Every review, every correction, the finished course at the finished price — with nothing more to pay. We do not sell an unchecked version once it has been checked, so the price you pay is the lowest it will ever be. Buying later only ever costs more.
A large part is free, permanently
Not a trial — no clock, no card. Every language gives you all of Prime Mentality, the foundational vocabulary course of 1,000 word lessons with their plain-language commentaries, a hundred conversation scenarios, the first scene of every audio environment, and the pronunciation system that unlocks the interface itself. That is the free tier in every language, finished or not — it does not shrink, and it does not quietly grow into the paid one.
What you need
- An Android phone or tablet. The app carries its own engine, so everything runs on the device.
- Offline is not a degraded mode — it is the whole product. Nothing needs a connection except buying and optional AI features.
- Optionally a Windows, Mac or Linux computer, if you would rather do heavy work on a big screen and sync to your phone.
- Your learning, your recordings and your books stay on your own devices. Backups go to your Google Drive or a USB stick — they never sit on our servers.
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