@memo_card_botFreemium
85 / 100
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These bots teach languages other than English: German and Japanese have dedicated trainers, one bot takes English speakers into Spanish, French, Portuguese or German, and flashcard bots work for whatever language you study. Some are AI tutors that talk with you, others are vocabulary trainers with spaced repetition; all live in Telegram, so a lesson is one message away.
| # | Bot | Price | Languages | Inline | Groups | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | @memo_card_bot | Freemium | EN · RU · UK · ES · MULTI | no | no | 85 |
| 2 | @PocketAnkiBot | Freemium · Your own words and full spaced-repetition training | EN · UK · RU | no | no | 75 |
| 3 | @nihongo_go_bot | Freemium | EN | no | no | 69 |
| 4 | @dasgermanbot | Freemium | EN | no | no | 64 |
| 5 | @LinguogramBot | Freemium · First 500 sentences and verbs per course (about A1), 20 AI questions a day | EN | no | no | 60 |
| 6 | @polyglossia_bot | Free | EN | yes | yes | 58 |
We did not sit through lessons with these bots: the list rests on what can be checked in the open. For each bot we confirmed on its t.me page that it is a live bot rather than a channel or an empty username, found the developer's website, repository or channel that links to it, and took prices and free limits from there, noting where none are published. Bots whose servers are gone or whose authors have archived them were taken off the list. For language learning we also noted which languages a bot really teaches and from which language, whether it explains mistakes or schedules reviews, and whether it gives audio.
AI tutors such as Das German Bot work through voice messages: you speak German, the bot replies and corrects your grammar and pronunciation, with vocabulary and grammar exercises on the side. That is the closest thing to a conversation partner, but it needs some base vocabulary first. Trainers build that base with cards and spaced repetition: MemoCard with your own or ready-made decks, PocketAnki with cards its AI writes from the words you send, Nihongo Go with Japanese vocabulary, kanji and grammar cards plus a kana-first path for complete beginners, and Linguogram with English sentences you translate into Spanish, French, Portuguese or German. Polyglossia Network is neither: it leads you to volunteer-run group chats where learners practise with each other, though its public descriptions date from 2017–2018.
It explains why an answer is wrong, not only that it is. It schedules reviews of words you missed. It gives audio for every new word or lets you send your own pronunciation. It works in short sessions, five minutes at a time, because that is how people actually use Telegram. Bots that only push a daily word rarely lead anywhere.
MemoCard's core is free, and Pro costs $4 a month. PocketAnki is free for your own words; the price of its Pro mode is not published. Nihongo Go is free to start and its AI explanations work on every tier, but the conversational Ask AI needs the FULL tier, whose price the site does not show. Linguogram gives the first 500 sentences and verbs of each course, about A1, and 20 AI questions a day; $5.99 a month opens about 8,000 per course. Das German Bot is free to start, but no price is shown anywhere, so check the offer inside the bot. Coverage is uneven: German and Japanese have dedicated bots, Spanish, French and Portuguese appear in Linguogram, which assumes you read English, and there is no dedicated bot for Chinese, Korean or Italian in the list right now. For English, see the separate rating.
A trainer with cards: Nihongo Go for Japanese, which has a kana-first path for complete beginners; for other languages, MemoCard with ready-made decks or PocketAnki, which writes cards from the words you send. Move to a voice tutor once basic words are in place.
Das German Bot listens to your voice messages and corrects grammar and pronunciation. MemoCard reads cards aloud and Linguogram sends sentences as voice messages, but neither grades your speech.
French is covered by Linguogram, which trains you from English into French, Spanish, Portuguese or German, and PocketAnki's AI makes French cards too. There is no dedicated Italian bot in the list yet; until one turns up, you can build your own deck in MemoCard.
Not in the list right now. The Chinese trainer we listed before most likely stopped working when its project's domains went offline, and the developer of the Korean one has listed it among archived bots, so both are gone. Until working ones turn up, write your own cards in MemoCard.
