Set vocabulary homework with a link, not a login.
Duolingo for Schools closes on 31 July 2027. Fotolingo works for a language department the day you paste your first link — no rollout, no accounts, and nothing for IT to set up.
No accounts
Nothing to set up. Nothing to review.
Pupils never sign up. No email address, no password, no list of forgotten ones — progress stays in each pupil's own browser unless you choose to run a class.
One link
Homework is a link.
Paste a lesson link into your homework system and you are done.
fotolingo.com/french/learn/fruits
16 languages
Enough for a department.
The same 1,346 words and the same lessons in each, so two teachers running different languages are running the same lesson.
It was built for a projector.
bigger screen, bigger pictures
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Open any lesson on the classroom display and the tiles grow to fill it. Tap a picture, the room hears the word — the whole class works from one screen before anyone touches a device.
Three ways to use one scene in a 50-minute lesson
The same fourteen pictures carry a starter, pair work, and the homework that follows.
0–10 minWhole-class starter
Scene on the projector. Pupils call the word before you tap; the tap settles who was right, in a real voice.
10–35 minPairs on the games
One device per pair: listening rounds and the quiz on the same lesson. Four picture options, so no reading is required to take part.
homeworkThe link
Paste the lesson link. Pupils finish the scene at home, and the words they met come back for review a few days later.
Printable worksheets
A lesson’s picture grid and its word table both print from the browser — a picture sheet to write the word under, and a list to match against.
Fotolingo · Les fruits
Match the word to the picture
What it costs
Every lesson above is free, for every pupil, permanently — that is the product, not a trial, across all 16 languages. A free account adds printable sheets, flashcards and your own word lists. A school licence ($129.99 a year, whole school) adds the rest: homework you set yourself, a class link that reports completion without any pupil needing an account, and Plus for every member of staff. Details on the pricing page.
Questions
No demo call, no form. Write to a person and a person answers.
No contact address has been published yet.
Questions schools ask
- Do pupils need accounts?
- No. Pupils are never asked for an email address, a password or a name, and nothing in a lesson is behind a sign-in. Progress is stored in the browser on the device being used, and clearing the browser clears it. Teachers can make a free account if they want printable sheets or their own word lists, but that is for you, not for a class.
- What data do you collect about children?
- By default, nothing at all: with no sign-in there is no server call, and everything a pupil does stays in the browser on the device. There is no analytics, no advertising and no third-party tracking on any page, ever. The one exception is a class link, which you create deliberately: it stores the nickname a pupil types and which assigned lessons they have finished, and nothing else — no email address, no password, no real name unless a pupil types one. Ask for initials or a number and a class collects no personal data at all. Our privacy page sets out exactly what is stored and where.
- Do we need a data-processing agreement?
- Not to use the app, because without a class link nothing reaches us. If you run classes, the school is the controller of the nicknames it asks pupils to use and we are the processor; an agreement is available on request, and a class and everyone in it can be deleted from your classes page at any time.
- Will it work on our network?
- It is a plain web page — no installer, no app store, no plugin. Allow the domain and it runs on Chromebooks, iPads, Windows laptops and interactive whiteboards. Once a lesson has loaded it keeps working if the connection drops.
- Where does the audio come from?
- The voice already built into the browser or operating system. That means no downloads and no per-play cost — and it also means a device with no Korean voice installed will not speak Korean, which is worth checking on a school image before a lesson.
- Can we use it in a paid course or a school we charge fees for?
- Yes. The app is free to use commercially. The code is AGPL-3.0, so if you host a modified copy as a public service you must publish your changes; using it as-is has no such condition.
- Can we get a class word list or a printable?
- Yes, and both come with a free account rather than a licence. The printables page builds a picture worksheet, cut-out flashcards or a plain word list from any combination of lessons in any language. The word-list builder turns any set of words you choose into a lesson of its own — a scene, a quiz and five other drills — which you hand out as a link. Your pupils need no account to open either one, and never will.
- Which languages can we teach with it?
- Fotolingo teaches Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Russian, Arabic, Hindi and English. Every course is built from the same set of concepts and the same lessons, so a department can run four of them side by side on one scheme of work. Any of them can also be learned from any other, which is what makes it usable by a pupil who does not have English as a first language.
- What does it cost a school?
- Nothing, for the whole app. Every lesson, word and language is free with no account and no advertising. A free account adds printables, your own word lists and progress that follows you between devices. The paid school licence buys the things only a school needs — class links that report completion, homework you set, and Plus for every member of staff. None of it unlocks vocabulary, because a vocabulary app that hides half the words is a worse product.