A complication, not a lesson
You already look at your watch dozens of times a day. Watch Your Language puts one vocabulary word where that glance lands, with its translation underneath. Nothing to open, no session to start: the word is simply there next to the time.
It works on any watch face that takes complications, in every shape the face offers: inline, rectangular, circular and corner. Pick the Words & Translations style to read both, or Words Only to test yourself each time you look.
A practice app on your wrist
Open the app on your watch when you want more than a glance:
- an example sentence showing the word in context,
- the word and the sentence read aloud with text-to-speech,
- the translation hidden until you tap, if you want to test yourself,
- a tick to mark a word as learned, and an arrow to move to the next one.
Which word comes next
The app uses spaced repetition: words you keep getting wrong come back sooner, words you know come back less often. You decide how fast new words join the rotation, from one every few minutes to one a week, and the iPhone app keeps track of what you have learned.
Words come from themed packs — food, travel, business, emotions and more, from A1 to C2 — or from your own lists with imported vocabulary. The same words show up in the iPhone Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets, so your phone and your watch work on one list.
Questions
Can you learn a language on an Apple Watch?
You can learn vocabulary on one. A watch face is glanced at many times a day, and each glance is a few seconds with one word. It is not the place for grammar lessons or conversation, so pair it with a course or a tutor for those.
Which watch faces does it work with?
Any face that takes complications. There are inline, rectangular, circular and corner complications, in two styles: the word with its translation, or the word alone so you can test yourself.
Do I need an iPhone?
Yes. You choose your words and settings in the iPhone app, and they sync to the watch.
Does the watch say the words out loud?
Yes. The watch app reads each word and its example sentence aloud with text-to-speech.
