
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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Themes across 64 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
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I like it!
Really helpful and cute :)
Muito bom!
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this game, noun town, has been very enjoyable to play and has improved my pronunciation in french considerably (starting from near-zero, mind you). I can really recommend it if you have used Duolingo as there are a lot of similarities minus the annoying aspects of Duolingo like the pay-wall(s) and advertisements. great for kids too. the art style is great. it's a little clunky at first play but after a few minutes you get to explore a neat little town and bring it to life from drab colourless grey to coloured as you identify new nouns. as far as good game mechanics for language learning and in the game itself there are a lot that make it shine. it has a streak mechanism where you get a gold star each day that you complete the three tasks which are to identify 5 new nouns, have 1 conversation with a person in the town, and to do revision flash cards based on the nouns you already identified in past gaming sessions. these three things are great because it allows you to build up a vocabulary at a steady pace while reinforcing what you learned over time with the spaced repetition learning technique (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition). in fact, mentioned on there is the other piece of software that I use, Anki, which I highly recommend. it's free flashcard software for any device and there are free comprehensive flash card decks for learning languages (and other stuff I guess too). I could go on, but this is a good piece of software. It's a shame that it's a little clunky with frame stuttering on my m1 macbook pro, but overall it works great.
Currently Learning Russian and its been wonderful! So interactive as im slowly knowing the word around me! We need more of this, and i LOVE Learning Rush Mode, it helps me remember and learn from my mistakes. I would recommend this to student if this was used beyond just Steam!!!
比我想的全面,30块非常值得。 可以和NPC对话/问问题,句子很日常,适合入门,词汇按照主题分布在几个空间,有内置的词典和复习。可以打字或者语音输入。 就是新手引导有点屎,还和我电脑自带的麦克风冲突了。
这个游戏进去一直是韩文,没有让我选择初始语言,整了半天没设置好。之前是玩demo玩了2h才买的正式版。确实麦克风延迟很高,不过比较有意思的是可以通过实际物品来记忆单词。但是这个优化和机械翻译真的很劝退,里面的引导教程都是机翻,语言牛头不对马嘴的,教学文字语义不通,起不到教学的作用。
it is ok at reinforcing words
good
A well made but deeply frustrating game. I really like the game but the 5 words a day limit is deeply frustrating as a player who already knows some of the language I'm learning. You don't get to pick the words either so it's a coin toss as to whether I already know it and a word has therefore been wasted that day. Especially since you get so many unique environments to explore but you're so limited by the 5 word limit that I doubt I'll be around to explore every environment. I have never wished a computer game was actually a mobile app before and I am upset just thinking such a thing. Please allow players to increase the daily word limit based on their experience level with the language.
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