
Learn 1,000+ words and phrases in 12 languages - including Japanese & Spanish - with no subscription and no ads. Explore a colorful open world, beat vocab mini-games, and speak to NPCs using real speech recognition. Language learning that actually sticks, and actually feels like a game.
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Noun Town is an award-winning language learning game with Very Positive reviews from thousands of players. Buy once, keep forever - no subscription, no ads, no waiting for a timer to count down on your phone.
Learn 1,000+ words and phrases across 12 languages: Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish (ES), Spanish (MX), French, German, Italian, Russian, Greek, Egyptian Arabic, and English.
🏆 Award-winning language learning program
⭐ Very Positive reviews on Steam
🌍 12 languages to learn (inc. Furigana and Romaji options for Japanese)
🎮 One-time purchase - no subscription ever
🔈 Native speaker voices + speech recognition
🐾 16 unique NPCs with personalities and evolving relationships
Note: Noun Town is ideal for beginners learning vocabulary. If you're already an experienced language learner, you'll likely get the most value from it as a revision tool rather than a source of new learning.
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🌍 A world that grows as you learn 🌍
Noun Town island starts in greyscale. Every word you master brings color back to the world - a constant, visible reminder of how far you've come.
🎮 No grinding. Just gaming. 🎮
Your vocabulary builds naturally as you explore 11 distinct areas - the café, beach, farm, food store, and more. Learn "coffee" where you'd order it, say "plastic bag" in the food store, or try saying "goat" on the farm.
🎯 Mini-games that make vocab stick 🎯
Smash robots to learn numbers. Plant flowers to learn colors. Drive a delivery bot through town to learn directions. Every mini-game is purpose-built to teach a specific type of vocabulary through action, not repetition.
🔈 Talk to real characters 🔈
Use speech recognition to hold conversations with 16 unique NPCs - each voiced by native speakers. Order at the café, ask for directions, chat with Bob (the most boring person alive) or Yaya, the kind old lady who's seen it all. Build relationships over time, just like in Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley, and unlock more natural, casual conversation as trust grows.
🧪 Science-backed spacing, game-level fun 🧪
Noun Town uses a spaced repetition system to quiz you at exactly the right moments - the same technique behind tools like Anki, but built into gameplay. The "Learning Rush" mini-game puts you behind a shop counter, serving customers who ask for items in your target language. Beat your high score. Lock in your vocab.
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Languages: English*, French*, Italian*, German*, Spanish - Spain*, Japanese*, Korean*, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese*, Spanish - Latin America**languages with full audio support
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pretty sure yān (chinese for cigarette) is bugged because no matter how many times i pronounce it the game won't register it as correct. super annoying and i know it's not me because it's a one syllable word with a high flat tone. kind of ruined my first impression with the game but i reset and all the rest of the new words it gave me work perfectly fine
I bought this thinking it had Portuguese language learning; It does not. It has Portuguese interface but does not offer Portuguese to learn as a language as of 07/04/2026.
麦克风识别反应太慢了,物品识别可以自动归位就好了。大概因为主要是名词的部分,角色人物塑造非常弱。希望之后会有可以更加立体的口语版本,加入更立体人物,丰富角色的文化背景和鲜明的个性。
I think its a fun extra if you are learning a language and you already have some prior knowledge. If you are a total beginner this might not be for you. It just learns you some extra words, if you don't take it to seriously i think it's honestly great. It Helped me learn a few hundred new word, some i already knew. I liked the mini rush game, but the other mini games were meh. it has some bugs, and not all translations are fully correct (for chinese) but i think 99% is good enough. I actually hope they just add 400 more words, cause i have a fun time learning them this way. I bought it on sale, and for 14 euro i'm more than happy.
I've seen from other reviews that it's not great for tonal languages or non-roman alphabet writing systems. However, I've been using it for italian and it's been great to expand basic vocabulary. As these kinds of games go, you must use them on par with other resources or outside language lessons. It's a vocabulary learning game; however, there are areas of opportunity that the devs should look into in order to add verbs or more complex phrases.
It is extremely easy to bug the game, the dialogues are way fewer than I expected, and there is no way in wich the game helps you study the words of the charachter's dialogues. You can't choose which words to master more, the minigames are very boring and not so many. Sometimes the pronunciation of some words is completely wrong and doesn't help you at all studying it. Nothing is taught about grammar, word formation, alphabet. Just a big pile pf words to repeat until the end of time in a very buggy and boring game. But If you are seeking to learn a language, already have a lot of input apart from this game, then I guess you could technically use it to study the vocabulary of some words. I already speak a sufficient amount of chinese to distinguish words in a sentence, and so for me learning vocabulary is very important. But if I didn't even know how to say "hello" then this game would have been trash... I dream of a game that really helps you learn a language from 0 to infinity and beyond, but it doesn't exist yet, unfortunately. So, do I reccomend this game? If you are good enough to don't care about a language's grammar or technical aspects, then yes, it's a great tool for vocabulary. (Use other sources apart from this during your study btw). But if you are still not good enough and want to learn a language from zero, then no, absolutely not.
definitely a supplement to other language learning but is genuinely fun
I guess its a pretty little package to learn new words with if you want to try a different style of learning a language. Would be kinda nice if it was available for mobile so that you could learn on the go
Yes, I've had every language.
The concept is really good, however need a bunch more polish
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