Learning is situated
Situated-cognition research argues that knowledge is shaped by the activity and context where it is used. Sap Sap starts with your actual scene, not an isolated list.
Brown, Collins & Duguid, 1989Photo-native language lessons
Learn Languages from the World Around You
Snap a photo of your life and turn it into vocabulary, phrases, and practice you actually remember.
Built for the words you actually see every day.
perro -> dog
2 new phrases!
5 words learned!
Inside Sap Sap
Lessons built from the places, people, and things already around you.
Sap Sap turns real moments into language practice, so new words come with a memory attached.
How it works
A language lesson can start with anything you can photograph.
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Snap your world
Capture dinner, your commute, your desk, your pet, or the street outside.
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Learn in context
Turn what is in the image into useful vocabulary and phrases in your target language.
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Practice what matters
Review words tied to your own life instead of studying generic lists you forget.
Why real-world learning works
Your surroundings give new words something to attach to.
Sap Sap turns the place, object, and moment in front of you into memory cues, then builds language practice around them.
Context helps recall
A meta-analysis of environmental context-dependent memory found that context can cue remembering. A photo gives each word a concrete scene to return to.
Smith & Vela, 2001Authentic objects make vocabulary stick
A ReCALL study found that using image-to-text recognition in authentic contexts helped EFL learners acquire vocabulary. Sap Sap applies that idea to your own world.
Shadiev, Wu & Huang, 2020Start learning from the next thing you see.
Download Sap Sap and turn your own photos into language practice.