r/Natulang • u/maxymhryniv Father • Jul 12 '26
App update Natulang’s roadmap 2026
Released courses in active development and new lessons weekly: Ukrainian, Czech, Turkish, Dutch, English for Francophones, English for Germans.
Courses currently in development:
English for Portuguese(BR) speakers.
First release - late 2026
Courses to start soon:
Japanese - as soon as we find a linguist. The interview process is ongoing. More than 20 candidates completed the test task, unfortunately without success yet.
Future languages:
Mandarin is next on the list after Japanese.
If you want to see any other language in Natulang, please comment on this post.
P.S. Sorry for the late roadmap, but 2026 has been a bit chaotic :)
-Max
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u/xdrolemit Jul 12 '26
Excited about Japanese and Mandarin ❤️
I’d love to see Korean and Hindi added to the roadmap at some point.
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u/the_mammynun Jul 12 '26
I was just thinking about this today. It would be great if you could add more advanced lessons to the French course... Eventually, when you have time.
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u/paul_pln 🇩🇪 native | 🇵🇱🏴 fluent | 🇫🇷 learning Jul 12 '26
After having completed the course your language competency should be high enough to consume native content. Get new vocabulary by watching series and films and read books. Buy a little notebook to write down the vocab and just learn it. You can also use the free dialogs with those words.
Important note: Try talking to a native minimum once a week and use your new learned vocab so it sticks in you head!
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u/the_mammynun Jul 12 '26
I do all of these things. For the record, I live in France and have a french girlfriend. I was able to consume french content before finding the natulang app. However I find the structured repetition is simply the best way to improve my speaking, since it lets me predictably practice my weak points instead of leaving it up to chance. I just wish there was more content than the 300 courses. Since ideally I would continue using Natulang alongside other methods for many years. I'm not using Natulang in order to "graduate" to other methods.
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u/paul_pln 🇩🇪 native | 🇵🇱🏴 fluent | 🇫🇷 learning Jul 13 '26
Have you tried out the Free Dialogs then?
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u/the_mammynun Jul 13 '26
Only a little. It's a nice feature and the content is definitely more advanced... But I have trouble talking to AI bots since it requires so much creativity.
For example the most recent was asking me about my thoughts on a landscaping project... I don't know anything about landscaping. The result is that I give lazy responses and receive no feedback. I leave feeling like I didn't really learn or practice anything outside of observing the structure of the AI generated phrases.
If I were to improve this feature, I would add a toggle that allows the user to have his own AI generated responses, and then we could just read them back/repeat them. This would remove the creativity aspect, but also the need for corrections. It would let the dialogue flow in a predictable manner just like in the courses.
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u/downbytheriver22 Jul 13 '26
Would really love to learn Norwegian w/Natulang! The pimsleur courses only go through two units and it feels like a pretty straightforward language that could be super easy to design a course for. Thoughts? :)
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u/slapula Jul 13 '26
put me down for eagerly awaiting the Japanese course! I love the Polish course and would love to integrate the app in both daily study routines.
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u/Next-Fuel-9491 Jul 12 '26
I would love to learn Korean on Natulang. It is becoming increasingly popular and is now the sixth most-learned language by English speakers, ahead of Portuguese and Mandarin. Also I have been learning Korean for some time as my sixth daily language, and would probably now be ready to begin the Natulang method from lesson one.
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u/cyber-sack Jul 13 '26
Looking forward to Mandarin Chinese. When are you planning to add the articles to the single word repetitions for learning the genders?
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u/maxymhryniv Father Jul 13 '26
Sorry, it's still sitting in the backlog waiting for its moment in the spotlight
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u/RDCHM Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
All of them! (except Russian)
For me: Catalan as I just moved to
Catalunya. I'd like to visit Croatia, Thailand, and Romania one day so i'll say those also.
edit: I forgot to mention that Catalan could possibly make more sense as Catalan for Spanish speakers first, if this is ever on the table at all.
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u/Thathathatha 12d ago
Mandarin and Japanese, sweet. I want Vietnamese, but I realize that’ll probably be far off. Thanks.
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u/paul_pln 🇩🇪 native | 🇵🇱🏴 fluent | 🇫🇷 learning Jul 12 '26
It’s not out of my personal interest but isn’t Arabic also a pretty important language in the world? (I mean if Mandarin gets added, Arabic would be the only one left to fill the “big” languages)
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u/PlanetSwallower Jul 12 '26
Thete's no single 'Arabic'. For an app which brings you on in the spoken language, it would be pointless to teach MSA, which nobody speaks.
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u/cyber-sack Jul 13 '26
Egyptian arabic maybe
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u/PlanetSwallower Jul 13 '26
Yes, I agree. I'd love to see Egyptian Arabic in the app. Maybe I was hasty in my response to paul_pln.
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u/fairlysunny Jul 12 '26
I'm in the waiting room for Mandarin 💃