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Drops

Learn a language in five minutes a day.

Every lesson in Drops is a lightning-fast game of wordplay that takes just five minutes. It’s a fun way to learn more than 50 languages, including Spanish, Mandarin, Icelandic and Samoan.

What we love: Learning new words by theme (food, people, relationships), then moving on to advanced topics such as politics and society. When your five minutes are up, see the number of words you’ve mastered, plus other stats.

More than 20,000 illustrations in the app help you grasp new words more quickly.

Quick tip: When you’re in a lesson, tap the stars at the bottom of the screen to add words to your collection to review later. You can also send a link to a friend with the word’s pronunciation.

Meet the creator: Drops was created by the popular learning platform Kahoot.