Questions
What parents ask about XLingo.
Cost, languages, how lessons work, children and adults, and privacy.
Cost and the free trial
How does the price work?
It is one price for the whole family: A$9.99 a month, or A$99.90 a year, which is two months free. You start with a 7-day free trial, and a card is needed to begin. After the trial it renews each month (or each year) until you cancel, and we email you before the trial ends. Prices include GST.
Is there a free way to try it first?
Yes. The home page has a free first lesson in any of the eleven languages, with no sign-up. After that, the 7-day free trial gives you the whole course.
Can I cancel?
Yes, online, from your account page, in as few steps as it took to join. You keep access to the end of the period you have paid for.
Languages and levels
Which languages?
French, Italian, Spanish, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Western Armenian and Gujarati.
What do A1 to C2 mean?
They are the six levels of the Common European Framework, from beginner (A1) to the most advanced (C2). Most learners start at A1, or wherever the placement check suggests.
Do I need to know any of the language already?
No. Every language starts at A1 for complete beginners, and a short placement check suggests where to begin for anyone who knows some.
Will my child be fluent?
XLingo is steady practice and course work. How far a learner goes depends on time and practice, and we do not promise a level by a date.
How lessons work
What is a lesson like?
A lesson takes about five minutes. New words arrive a few at a time, each shown and heard before any question asks for it, then come twelve kinds of practice such as listening, typing, matching and speaking. A question answered wrongly returns before the lesson ends.
How does speaking practice work?
The learner hears the phrase, records themselves and plays it back to compare. Nothing is uploaded or kept, and XLingo does not score pronunciation.
What are the souvenirs?
Each language has a 3D souvenir, such as a stack of macarons for French or a temari ball for Japanese. A learner earns it by finishing every lesson of one level of that language, and it goes on their shelf. Souvenirs are earned, never sold.
Does it use AI?
Lessons are marked by the course's own rules, not by AI. Some languages also have an optional chat practice with an AI partner, which is checked for safety, limited each day for children and can be switched off by a parent.
Children, adults and parents
Can adults learn too?
Yes. One family subscription covers every child and every adult who wants to learn for themselves, each with their own level and review deck.
What ages is it for?
Children and adults. A parent adds each child with their school year. Lessons are read on screen and answered by tapping, typing and speaking, so they suit children who are reading, and a parent can sit beside a younger child.
Can parents see progress?
Yes. A parent can see each child's level in every language, the words they have learned, how many are due for review and how many days they practised this week.
Privacy and devices
Is my child's information safe?
Nothing is sold on a child's screen and children are never tracked in our analytics. A recording made in a speaking step is never uploaded. See the privacy page for what we keep.
What do we need to use it?
A web browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Words and sentences are read by your device's own voice, so a language your device has no voice for, such as Western Armenian on most devices, skips the listening steps.
Still deciding? Try a lesson first.
A first lesson in any language, with no sign-up.
XLingo in short
XLingo teaches eleven languages in six levels each, with five-minute lessons, grammar cards, unit stories and a souvenir to earn in each language, for children and adults on one family subscription. It works in the browser.
Questions parents ask
- How does the price work?
- It is one price for the whole family: A$9.99 a month, or A$99.90 a year, which is two months free. You start with a 7-day free trial, and a card is needed to begin. After the trial it renews each month (or each year) until you cancel, and we email you before the trial ends. Prices include GST.
- Is there a free way to try it first?
- Yes. The home page has a free first lesson in any of the eleven languages, with no sign-up. After that, the 7-day free trial gives you the whole course.
- Can I cancel?
- Yes, online, from your account page, in as few steps as it took to join. You keep access to the end of the period you have paid for.
- Which languages?
- French, Italian, Spanish, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Western Armenian and Gujarati.
- What do A1 to C2 mean?
- They are the six levels of the Common European Framework, from beginner (A1) to the most advanced (C2). Most learners start at A1, or wherever the placement check suggests.
- Do I need to know any of the language already?
- No. Every language starts at A1 for complete beginners, and a short placement check suggests where to begin for anyone who knows some.
- What is a lesson like?
- A lesson takes about five minutes. New words arrive a few at a time, each shown and heard before any question asks for it, then come twelve kinds of practice such as listening, typing, matching and speaking. A question answered wrongly returns before the lesson ends.
- How does speaking practice work?
- The learner hears the phrase, records themselves and plays it back to compare. Nothing is uploaded or kept, and XLingo does not score pronunciation.
- What are the souvenirs?
- Each language has a 3D souvenir, such as a stack of macarons for French or a temari ball for Japanese. A learner earns it by finishing every lesson of one level of that language, and it goes on their shelf. Souvenirs are earned, never sold.
- Does it use AI?
- Lessons are marked by the course's own rules, not by AI. Some languages also have an optional chat practice with an AI partner, which is checked for safety, limited each day for children and can be switched off by a parent.
- Can adults learn too?
- Yes. One family subscription covers every child and every adult who wants to learn for themselves, each with their own level and review deck.
- What ages is it for?
- Children and adults. A parent adds each child with their school year. Lessons are read on screen and answered by tapping, typing and speaking, so they suit children who are reading, and a parent can sit beside a younger child.
- Can parents see progress?
- Yes. A parent can see each child's level in every language, the words they have learned, how many are due for review and how many days they practised this week.
- Is my child's information safe?
- Nothing is sold on a child's screen and children are never tracked in our analytics. A recording made in a speaking step is never uploaded. See the privacy page for what we keep.
- What do we need to use it?
- A web browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Words and sentences are read by your device's own voice, so a language your device has no voice for, such as Western Armenian on most devices, skips the listening steps.
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