Sona in German and Brazilian Portuguese

Sona now works in German and Brazilian Portuguese, on the web and in the iOS and Android apps. It's the second round after Japanese and Korean, and it works the same way: nothing to install, nothing to switch on. If your browser or phone is already set to one of them, Sona opens in it.

It follows your language

The web app reads your browser's language and the mobile apps read your phone's. A phone or browser set to European Portuguese gets Brazilian Portuguese, the only Portuguese Sona has for now. If you'd rather choose, use Settings on the web or Settings → Language in the app. Whatever you pick is saved to your account, so the web and both phones agree, and emails from Sona, like sign-in links, arrive in the same language.

The public pages — the landing page, pricing, and this blog — have their own /de/ and /pt-BR/ addresses too, and the guides on this blog have been translated into both.

Your interface language and your deck's language are separate

Same as before: changing Sona's language doesn't touch your decks. Using Sona in German while you build a Spanish deck is completely normal, and the two settings don't know about each other. Setting up a deck well works the same in any language.

New decks, written in the language

Discover has six new decks from Sona, written natively rather than translated from the English ones:

• German: general knowledge about Germany, German history basics, and essential English vocabulary (with the answers in German).
• Brazilian Portuguese: Brazil's state capitals, Brazilian history, and essential English vocabulary (with the answers in Portuguese).

Like any public deck, you can fork one into your own account and edit it.

Nothing else changes

Study, Browse, every Quiz mode, offline access, and sync are unlimited on the Free plan, in every language, same as before. Pro covers the same things it always has.

Pick a language, or let your device pick one for you.