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The News

  • After 15 years, Teachionary is coming alive again! Try it out and give us feedback!
  • The core algorithm and audio i/o code have been re-implemented in current browser environments, and tested working on: Chrome and Edge on Windows 10; Safari on iOS 13.
  • Create Account works again. Login works again. Send bug reports please!
  • Languages now also include Iraqi Arabic, Czech, Persian/Farsi/Iranian, Malayalam, and Korean
  • Teachionary once began accepted subscriptions. Presently the subscription service is undergoing debugging so enjoy unlimited access for now.
  • Improvements are ongoing.
  • Visit the New Beta Release version of Teachionary.
  • Please give us feedback!
    Do we ever fail to clearly set or fully satisfy your expectations?
    We want to be as useful to you as possible!
  • Teachionary welcomes development account contributions.

Subscription System Announcement

Thank you for your continuing use and support of Teachionary.

During 1996-2004, Teachionary was a charitable, free service developed and maintained by Sprex, Inc. Teachionary has been a great, amazing, fun, fascinating, satisfying, but spare-time, project for Sprex. However, keeping Teachionary free has limited the resources available to develop Teachionary in the ways we'd like to.

So we have decided to build upon Teachionary's success, committing ourselves to do more: to develop more languages and more vocabulary, to create more neat learning tools to help you learn more and keep at it longer while having more fun!

These benefits need work, and work of course must be paid for, not to mention our overhead costs. So we have also decided to convert Teachionary into a subscription service to support our work.

Teachionary continues to operate in the same way, except that free access is limited to a threshold of activity, while registered subscribers have unlimited access.

> If I pay for more teachionary, are there more or expanded categories?
Good question! Various word-sets are listed in each Study Path, and the "Everything" path lists all the categories. Without subscribing, you can pick out up to seven sets that you want to learn, without charge, and you can come back to study them over time if you wish. However, only a current subscription will let you work on the other categories beyond the seven you first visited. Also, since some languages have more materials than others, and since some are harder to learn otherwise, the prices aren't all the same.

The great thing about Teachionary users is that they are regular users. We find people coming back here over and over, because it really helps you learn and retain knowledge that is useful and empowering.

Typical Teachionary users use it many times for a few months while studying a language in school or visiting a foreign country or getting to know a speaker of another language.

If you are typical user, then the total subscription cost to you will be less than a dictionary or a few magazines in the language you're learning.

During the transition to a full subscription service, Sprex is now offering a discounted subscription plan.

Contributions for development on particular languages are also solicited, if you would like to encourage more rapid progress on your language of choice. See Teachionary Development Accounts for how to earmark contributions to development on a specific language.

Subscription fees go into the general fund for Teachionary overhead and development. We spend that money on languages and development projects that we prioritize ourselves. Teachionary Development Account contributions, on the other hand, are earmarked to development work on a specific language, and we promise to spend those contributions on the projects they are earmarked for. So through the latter you can directly control the direction of Teachionary development.

We appreciate your support and all the support that the community has offered us in the past. We look forward to the improvements we're anticipating in the next year or two.


For more information please contact Tom Veatch or +1-206-858-2633 (best way: by text)
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Date: April 4, 2025