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LinguaQuest
Explore a vibrant adventure world where you MUST communicate in your target language to solve puzzles, make friends, order food, and save the kingdom — an RPG that makes language learning irresistible.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Mira
#4A6FA5 LinguaQuest is a language learning adventure where you explore a colorful world and MUST speak another language to get around! Talk to villagers, order food at shops, solve puzzles, and save the kingdom -- all in your target language. It is like traveling to another country without leaving your room.
Characters who teach
Meet the cast
Each character in LinguaQuest is one big idea about the world's languages: language families, how sounds change, writing systems, words languages share, dialect and register, signed languages, tone, word order, words other languages have that ours doesn't, and keeping endangered languages alive.
Bough
Language families (genetic descent — Indo-European / Sino-Tibetan / Afro-Asiatic / Niger-Congo / Austronesian)
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Drift
Sound change (phonological evolution — Grimm's Law, vowel shifts, palatalization)
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Glyph
Writing systems (alphabetic / abjad / abugida / syllabic / logographic — and how each captures speech)
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Bridge
Cognates and loanwords (shared roots across languages; trade-route borrowings)
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Cant
Sociolinguistics — dialect, register, code-switching, formal/informal speech
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Sign
Signed languages — full natural languages spoken with hands, face, and space; each Deaf community's own, never 'just gestures'
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Swoop
Tone — pitch that changes a word's meaning (tonal languages); precise and sophisticated, never 'sing-song' or 'exotic'
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Weft
Word order / syntax — languages arrange words differently (SVO/SOV/verb-first); no order is 'backwards,' each is complete
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Lex
Untranslatable words — words no other language has in one breath; not a gap in your language but a gift another can offer
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Nook
Endangered languages + revitalization — keeping fading languages safe; decline is from histories of harm, never the speakers' fault; communities lead the revival
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What's inside
World Exploration
Walk around a top-down adventure world using the on-screen joystick. Visit shops, talk to villagers, and discover new areas. Every NPC speaks in your target lan
Conversations
Talk to characters by choosing phrases or speaking out loud. The app listens to your pronunciation and gives you feedback. Start with simple greetings and work
Puzzles and Quests
Complete quests that require language skills. A baker needs you to read a recipe in Spanish. A lost traveler needs directions. Each quest teaches new vocabulary
Vocabulary Bank
Every new word you learn goes into your vocabulary bank. The app uses smart review scheduling to bring back words right before you might forget them, so they st
Mentored by Mira — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How LinguaQuest handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages
LinguaQuest runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
LinguaQuest is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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