About HEYGOW

What this site is for

HEYGOW exists so that anyone with nothing but a phone can hear a foreign language spoken, over and over, until it stays. That is the whole idea. There is no course to enrol in, no streak to keep and no account to make: you open a page, press play, and let a phrase repeat as many times as you need.

It is built for the gaps in a day - a train, a queue, ten minutes before sleep - which is why every page works on a small screen with one thumb, and why the audio is cached so it keeps playing when the signal does not.

What is in it

• 16 languages to learn: English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Indonesian, Brazilian Portuguese, Thai, Vietnamese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Hindi, Malay and Cantonese
• More than 48,000 phrases and 32,000 words, every one with its own audio - over 80,000 clips in all, playable on a loop at seven speeds from 0.5x to 2x
• The meaning of every phrase and word in each of the 15 display languages, with the display language switchable at any time
• Games - a word order quiz, match pairs, a speed quiz and a collection with badges - plus typing courses for English, Chinese and Japanese

Who runs it

HEYGOW is run by one person, independently. It is not a company and has no staff, no investors and no institutional backing.

The site is funded by advertising, which is what keeps it free to use and free of sign-ups. Nothing on the site is a paid placement, and no advertiser has any say in what appears here.

Corrections

A language site that gets something wrong teaches the mistake. If you find an error - a wrong tone, an unnatural phrase, a translation that misses - please say so. Corrections are the most useful thing anyone can send.