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British English vocabulary you can say, not just understand

For beginners and for anyone who understands English better than they speak it. Ready British English cards with audio, a transcription, and an example sentence on each.

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300 ready cards for your level and goals – nothing to build
Reverse cards: from your language to English
British words and spelling: flat, queue, colour

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Try it: tap the card to flip it, tap the speaker to hear the word.

Translation

Preparing your card Finding a useful word for this language pair.

A real card from My Lingua Cards – tap it, hear it, remember it.

Sound familiar?

You know the word. It just is not there when you need it.

You read English fine and follow films without subtitles. But the moment you have to speak, the word slips away, so you smile, simplify, and say less than you mean. That isn't a lack of talent. It's that the words you learned never reached the part of memory you can grab under pressure.

Learn it, forget it

A word feels learned today and is gone by next week.

Freeze mid-sentence

You stall, hunting for a word you definitely know.

Streaks, not words

Other apps gave you points, but few words you can use.

Where English trips you up

…and how the cards handle it

English looks easy until you have to use it. Four things cause most of the trouble.

Letters you cannot trust

Though, through, tough, thought: you cannot guess the sound from the spelling. Every card plays the word and shows the transcription, so you learn the two together.

One variety, start to finish

Flat, not apartment. Queue, not line. Colour, not color. The words, the spelling, and the examples follow British usage throughout, so you do not mix the two.

Make or do? Say or tell?

English words come in habitual pairs, and a translation does not show them. The example sentence on each card does: you see which words go together.

Phrasal verbs

Get up, put off, look after: two small words whose meaning you cannot work out from the parts. In the dictionary they are cards of their own, each with its audio and its example.

Where it pays off

Where you will need your English words

The cards are the same, but different words come first depending on what you need English for.

At work

Meetings, emails, calls with clients and colleagues abroad: the words you need there are the ones you cannot stop to look up.

Exams

IELTS, B2 First, C1 Advanced: the vocabulary is organized by level, from beginner to advanced, so you work through it in order, not at random.

Moving to the UK

Renting a flat, registering with a GP, opening a bank account, talking to the neighbours: everyday words in the form people there actually use.

Travel

English is the language you fall back on in almost any country. Asking, ordering, sorting out a problem at the airport: words that have to come at once.

Getting started

From sign-up to your first card in a couple of minutes

No word lists to hunt for, no cards to make, no review schedule to plan – the app takes care of all that.

Answer a couple of questions

Tell us your language, your level, what you're learning for, and the topics you care about. It takes under a minute.

Done for you 2

You get 300 ready cards

From your answers the app picks words for your level and goals and groups them into sets, one for each topic you chose.

Straight to the words

After setup you land on a card, not on an empty dashboard. Your first session has as many words as you chose per day: 10, 20, or 30.

The next day

Your dashboard has one main button. It opens a session where new words come together with the ones that are due for review, so you never have to decide what to study today.

Behind the calm pace is spaced repetition: each review lands just as the memory starts to fade, so words settle into your active vocabulary.

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Reviews

What people write after learning with us

5.0

from 5 learner reviews

“I’ve only been using this platform for a short time, but so far I really like it. It’s easy to use, the audio is clear, and the vocabulary feels actually useful. It already seems a lot better than some other apps I’ve tried. So far, it feels worth the money.”

Emily C. 2/1/2026

“Honestly, I tried MyLinguaCards on a whim, and it’s actually legit. The cards are pretty basic, but they really work. After just a few goes, the words started sticking, and now they just pop into my head out of nowhere. If you want the words to actually stick, it's worth a shot. It's the real deal.”

Jake M. 12/8/2025

“Sou de Portugal e uso o My Lingua Cards para estudar inglês depois do trabalho. Abro as cartas no telemóvel, ouço, repito e vou aprendendo novas palavras aos poucos. É simples e cabe bem no meu dia.”

Miguel 10/1/2025

“Ich bin Student und nutze My Lingua Cards, um Englisch zu üben. Ich lerne ein paar Wörter zwischendurch am Handy, höre die Audios und wiederhole. So merke ich mir den Wortschatz viel schneller als nur mit dem Lehrbuch.”

Lukas 9/22/2025

“Мені подобається My Lingua Cards. Все дуже просто: відкриваю картки, слухаю, повторюю слова. Навіть коли вчу 5–10 хвилин, бачу, що починаю краще пам’ятати лексику.”

Олена 7/1/2025

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Questions, answered

Quick answers before you start.

It helps with what speaking depends on: having the word ready when you need it. Reverse cards make you recall the English word from its translation, and short exercises make you use it in a sentence, by voice or typing.

British: UK spelling, vocabulary, and usage in the words, the descriptions, and the examples. If you need American English, it has its own page and its own set of cards.

Most apps show a word a few times and move on. Here spaced repetition brings every word up again up to ten times over several weeks, and then reverse cards and exercises make you use it. Forgetting is expected; the schedule is built around it.

It covers the vocabulary part: words organized by level, with British spelling and usage, and recall practice in both directions. It does not replace training for the exam tasks themselves.

Yes. The first month is free: your first 300 ready British English vocabulary cards, no credit card. After that nothing is charged unless you choose a plan, and your words and progress stay saved.

Unlike Anki, there is nothing to set up: no building decks or importing shared files – ready-made British English cards come with audio, images, and example sentences. And unlike gamified apps, there are no streaks or lives to protect: just a calm daily review queue powered by spaced repetition.

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The first month is free: 300 ready British English vocabulary cards with professional audio, spaced repetition, and reverse cards. No credit card required.