Lani

A dozen villagers live their own days. France mows in the dew and harvests his field, Tone forges at the smithy, Babica Micka bakes potica and brings soup to the fire, and every evening Stari Janez tells a legend there. They ask for help in Slovene: a bubble over someone's head is a request, a little exercise in what they need.

What you do for them builds the village. It starts as a campfire in a clearing and grows with the words you learn, age by age, towards your target level:

1. 🔥 Ogenj Campfire
2. ⛺ Tabor Camp
3. 🛖 Zaselek Hamlet
4. 🏘️ Vas Village A2
5. 🏛️ Trg Market town B1
6. 🏰 Mesto Town

The village keeps time with yours: mornings, rain, the moon, a merchant from Gorizia at the gate, a feast under the linden. Its sounds are synthesized in code too. Have a listen:

Every place of the village opens into a close-up: indoors an isometric diorama, outdoors a view to the hills. You find the words in the picture by tapping the things in it, and you talk to whoever is there today.

The village scroll, a book once the hamlet is a village, has a page for every rule: 44 for Slovene, from biti to the six cases, aspect and the dual. A page is written in the first time you meet its rule in an exercise, and its stars say how well you know it.

Rules you've only met in the dialogs wait, greyed: »Še ne«, not yet. The dialogs and the word forms only ask what the book has opened, your mistakes show up on the rule's page, and the tutor can write a new page when you need one.

For long drives there's an Android Auto mode: audio drills prepared on the phone ahead of time and played with the steering wheel's buttons. You hear the meaning, say it aloud, then hear how it's said and repeat it.

• Preobrat Transformations: Micka kuha kosilo. Into the past! → Micka je kuhala kosilo.
• Hitri odziv Rapid fire: a number, a time, a date, two seconds to say it.
• Gradnja stavkov Sentence building: a sentence grows a step at a time.
• Uganke Riddles: Stari Janez describes a thing of the village in three or four clues.

Med vožnjo ne glej na zaslon. While driving, don't look at the screen.

A friendship both towns agree on

Visits, help, gifts, trades and answered questions count for the towns' friendship, which grows through five levels. Each brings something: better rates at the market, help when wolves or a storm come, a shared feast, people moving between the towns. Both towns compute the level from the same counts, and an act counts once both have it, so a friendship that one learner keeps up alone stops at the middle.

1. Znanstvo Acquaintance
2. Dobro sosedstvo Good neighbours
3. Prijateljstvo Friendship
4. Tesno prijateljstvo Close friendship
5. Pobratenje Twin towns

What stays home

A town shows its linked towns only its public state: its buildings, its people, its age and today's weather. Never the learner's chat, mistakes, words or progress. Every request between towns is signed with the town's own key; an unlinked town gets nothing.

A child's town

A child's village is linked by a parent, on the machine, never from the child's phone. It takes no question with a link or an address in it, its tutor keeps every exchange age-appropriate, and the parent sees every question and answer.