Learn one Malay word.
Unlock its whole family.
Malay words come in families. LexaFluent shows you how each root branches out, so the language starts to click into place instead of piling up.
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- ajar - root, teach
- belajar - to learn (from ajar)
- pengajar - instructor (from ajar)
- mengajar - to teach (from ajar)
- ajarkan - teach it (from ajar)
- diajar - to be taught (from ajar)
- pelajar - student (from ajar)
- pembelajaran - learning (from belajar)
- pengajaran - teaching (from pengajar)
- mengajarkan - to teach (sth) (from mengajar)
- pelajaran - lesson (from pelajar)
Learn ajar, and a whole family of words opens up
Malay builds words by snapping small pieces onto a root. Watch the same root, ajar, grow from beginner to advanced.
to learn, study
ber- softens to bel- here; it makes an intransitive verb you do yourself.
Tap the card to flip through the family.
A few roots go a long way
Because words come in families, a handful of roots unlocks far more than you'd expect. Drag to grow your roots and watch Malay turn into English, word by word. LexaFluent starts you on the roots that unlock the most words, and brings each one back right before you'd forget it, so you climb this curve with far less effort.
Recognize ~2,000 words and you cover about 85% of the text. Everyday speech, you follow most conversations.
LexaFluent does the thinking between sessions
Quietly, between your sessions, it protects your time and keeps what you have learned from slipping.
Forget a root, and its whole family comes back.
When a root gets shaky, LexaFluent pulls everything built on it back into practice, before it slips too.
Your queue never piles up.
About fifteen minutes a day, or as long as you like. New words arrive at a pace you can handle, never an avalanche.
Look-alikes, caught before you mix them up.
When two words start to blur together, LexaFluent drills them side by side so you stop mixing them up.
LexaFluent trains the gap between knowing and using.
You might recognize pelajar but not be able to build it from ajar. LexaFluent notices and trains that gap.
A typical gap on a new word, until LexaFluent closes it.
Practice built around word families
Build words from their roots, uncover every meaning, and tell look-alikes apart, so the whole family sticks.
- ajar, root, teach
- belajar, to learn
- pengajar, instructor
- pelajar, student
- diajar, be taught
Snap the pieces together
Pieces snap onto the root.
Use it in a sentence
Saya memasak nasi.
The right form fills the gap.
Pick the form for the meaning
a cooked dish:
One word, many senses
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Built by a Malay teacher and a fellow learner
Adlan Shafi
Co-founder & Malay teacher
Hailing from Malaysia with a deep passion for learning and teaching languages. With more than five years of experience teaching Malay and a background in psychology, Adlan strives to improve the language-learning journey and its effectiveness. Along his own journey of self-learning languages, he tried different methods and apps and analysed their pros and cons, which led to the innovation of LexaFluent.
Aleksandr Novikov
Co-founder & Engineer
A programmer with a deep passion for languages, five of them so far, and years of travel that shaped how he sees the world. After spending a year living in Malaysia, Aleksandr tried the Malay-learning tools that already existed but found none that taught the language the way he wanted to learn it. So he set out to build his own, which became LexaFluent.
LexaFluent vs the usual way
Same minutes a day. A very different result.
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