Mergen: Learn English

The hardest part of learning English usually isn't the grammar. It's finding someone to talk to. In Mergen, there's a whole town of them.

You arrive in a small town one evening. Hana, who runs the guesthouse, looks up from her book: "Are you looking for a room?" Everyone here speaks English, so you answer in English. If the sentence comes out a bit wobbly, that's fine. Hana is patient, and you still get the room.

Speak, and hear your mistakes explained in your own language
You talk to people in town out loud, into your microphone. Tell Ivo at the station "I walk to town yesterday" and Mergen steps in, in your own language: it was yesterday, so it's "walked". You hear why, then you say it again. Nobody takes a red pen to you.

A road from A1 to C2
The road out of town follows a full English course, from your first hello all the way to C2. At each stop you meet someone, ask for something or explain something. Grammar, vocabulary, listening and speaking come up inside those conversations, in the order your level needs them.

What you forget waits in the garden
Words you saved and sentences you got wrong grow in the vegetable patch by the spring. Watering a plant that's ready means saying that sentence again. It's review, really, but nobody in the garden calls it that.

A few games on the side
In Yuna's shadow play the puppet gets its English wrong on purpose, and you catch the wrong word. You can tap to the beat on a run across the steppe, or settle a "has or have" duel under the falling stars. Just right for waiting at the bus stop.

Keep the fire going
Study a little every day and the campfire at camp grows. Miss a day and the Mergen icon on your phone starts dozing. Miss three and he's freezing. Each week you also climb a mountain pass with a small group of other learners, and the path shows who's ahead.

Got a real conversation coming up?
A job interview, a trip, a meeting with a client from abroad… Get a ticket at the station and rehearse it before the day comes.

Tap any English word to see what it means. You can try your first conversation without an account.

Recent changes:
1.9 fills the town.
• A caravan sets out every day: seven stops, one road for everyone, yesterday's leader on the board.
• Festivals: the kopuz festival, the harvest fair, story night.
• Your own house in town, and in the evening a guest from your day.
• A new daily forest walk that shows what you're learning.
• Word bags: picture, listening and sorting games.
• Reviews wait beside the person who taught you.
• A writing desk, tablet support and many fixes.