Web + app
Public reads stay on the website.
Account features, communities, private practice, messaging, and live cafes happen inside the mobile app.
How It Works
Read on the web. Practice in the app.
A concise guide to accounts, reading, practice, communities, cafes, safety, and support.
Personal library
User uploads can sit behind authentication later.
Personal articles, images, and files should remain separate from the public library while sharing the same account model.
Controls
Manage profile, sign-in, safety, and deletion from one account area.
LangCafe supports linked login methods, notification controls, blocked users, support tickets, and an in-app delete-account flow.
Overview
Getting started
Language Cafe is designed as a two-part product. The website makes public reading content easy to browse and share. The mobile app handles the interactive side of the platform: your account, vocabulary practice, communities, direct messages, and live conversation cafes.
Website
Use the browser for reading and public information.
- Browse the reading library and open public articles or stories.
- Review help, safety, privacy, terms, and account-deletion guidance.
- Open shared reading links without needing the app first.
Mobile app
Use the app for practice, community, and live cafes.
- Create your account and finish onboarding.
- Join communities, schedule or host cafes, and send messages.
- Track saved words, reading-based study, and quiz progress.
Practice is intentionally more private than public reading pages. Reading links can be shareable on the web, while your practice history, saved words, account settings, and most social actions stay inside the app.
Accounts
Create an account
New users can start with Google, Apple on supported devices, email, or phone. The app then walks through a structured signup flow so profiles are usable for language matching and community participation from day one.
Available sign-up methods
- Google sign-in
- Apple sign-in on supported Apple devices
- Email sign-up with verification code and password creation
- Phone sign-up with verification code
Age and eligibility checks
- LangCafe requires users to be at least 13 years old.
- The app asks for age-related information during signup and may allow a skip path only when the user confirms they are over the required age.
- Some core identity and language fields are required to finish setup.
Complete signup flow
- Step 1: Personal details. Enter your first and last name.
- Step 2: Demographics. Provide your date of birth or confirm your age status, then choose the required demographic fields used by the current signup flow.
- Step 3: Languages. Add your country, the languages you know, and the languages you want to learn. The app expects at least one native language and supports multiple learning languages.
- Step 4: Username and profile basics. Confirm a generated username, add an optional bio, and save the account.
- Onboarding. After signup, the app can guide you through an intro, profile photo setup, and cover photo setup before you start using communities and cafes.
Access
Sign in and recover access
LangCafe supports more than one sign-in path, so the exact screen you use depends on how your account was created and which login methods you linked later in settings.
Standard sign-in options
- Email and password
- Email sign-in code sent as a 6-digit code
- Apple on supported Apple devices
- Phone verification where enabled for the account
Recovery and fallback
- Forgot-password flow for email and password accounts
- Password reset through the app when email access still works
- Support escalation for lost access or linked-method issues
If sign-in stops working, start with the method you originally used. If your account later linked more than one provider, check Settings to see whether an email password, phone number, Google account, or Apple account is already attached before opening a duplicate account.
Settings
Profile and account management
The Profile and Settings area is the control center for identity, privacy, login methods, notifications, safety tools, and account deletion.
Profile basics
- Edit your name, username, bio, profile photo, and cover photo.
- Keep languages and country up to date for matching and discovery.
- Many profile details are optional, especially photos, bios, and extra descriptive fields.
Account controls
- Change or set a password for email-based access.
- Link additional sign-in methods such as Google, Apple, email, or phone.
- Manage notifications, sign out, and open delete-account tools.
Safety-related settings
- Review blocked users and unblock when needed.
- Open support, privacy, and terms pages directly from settings.
- Administrative moderation screens exist for authorized staff roles.
Best practice
- Link a backup sign-in method before changing devices.
- Use a profile photo and language list if you want easier community discovery.
- Keep your username stable if you are already sharing public links.
Practice
Practice, articles, and saved words
Practice is where individual learning happens. It is separate from community spaces so you can study privately, save vocabulary, and return to content when you are ready.
Quiz
Meaning Match
Use quick quiz sessions to match words and meanings. This is meant for fast reinforcement rather than long-form reading.
Study
Articles and stories
Browse reading material by language, difficulty, and category. Articles and stories feed directly into the vocabulary system so words can be saved while you read.
Review
My Words
Review saved vocabulary collected from reading, quizzes, catalog browsing, or manual additions. This becomes your personal word bank across the app.
Words do not have to start in one place. A term can be picked up from an article, revisited in Practice, and then used again in a live cafe or study discussion.
Community
Communities
Communities are ongoing spaces for a shared topic, study plan, class, book club, language pair, or general interest group. They are different from cafes, which are live sessions.
Community types
- General
- Study group
- Book club
- Language pair
- Class
- Interest community
Privacy and access
- Public communities that anyone can join
- Request-to-join communities with approval flows
- Invite-only communities for tighter membership control
Create and manage a community
- Choose the community type, language, privacy level, category, and tags.
- Add an icon, description, rules, and current focus.
- Configure book-club details when relevant.
What members can do
- Read posts, questions, polls, and announcements.
- Join event-like activity and live pulse areas when available.
- Explore member suggestions, introduce themselves, and use shared resources.
Live sessions
Create and schedule cafes
Cafes are the live voice rooms of Language Cafe. They can be opened instantly or scheduled ahead of time, including reminders, moderator setup, and community-based hosting.
When creating a cafe you can set
- Subject, description, and target language
- Words to learn and supporting resource links
- Community association when the room belongs to a group
- Instant launch or scheduled start
Scheduled-cafe controls
- Date, time, and expected duration
- Visibility such as public, followers, or invited participants
- Reminder settings and reminder timing
- Auto-start, host absence handling, and moderator scheduling
The scheduled flow is built for repeatable study sessions. Hosts can prepare a topic, add learning words, attach useful links, and line up moderators before the room opens.
Room modes
Cafe modes and room roles
LangCafe cafes are not limited to open conversation. Hosts can run different activity modes depending on the learning goal.
Conversation mode
Standard live speaking room for open practice, prompts, and discussion.
Reading mode
Participants follow synced reading material together and can save words into their own Practice area.
Quiz mode
Shared word-choice activity with room participation and leaderboard-style feedback.
Media mode
Synced media playback, including shared YouTube-based listening sessions.
Room roles
- Host
- Moderator
- Speaker
- Audience
Host and moderator tools
- Invite people to the stage
- Promote or demote moderators and speakers
- Mute or remove participants when needed
- Apply room-level safety controls, including blocking access
Communication
Messages, safety, and support
LangCafe gives you ways to connect with people directly, but it also limits unsolicited messaging and provides reporting, blocking, and support tools when something goes wrong.
Direct messages
- Private conversations live in the app.
- A first contact may begin as a pending conversation request until the other person responds.
- Blocked or ignored states can prevent further contact.
Report and block
- Report users or posts for spam, harassment, impersonation, sexual content, violence, or other concerns.
- Block users directly from the app when you do not want more interaction.
- Hosts and moderators can also manage live-room behavior in cafes.
Support tickets
- Open tickets for account, technical, billing, report, feedback, or other issues.
- Include a subject, detailed message, and up to three screenshots when needed.
- Track ticket status as open, in progress, awaiting user, resolved, or closed.
Safety concerns should be reported in-app whenever possible because reports can include the account, post, or conversation context. If you cannot access the app, email support@languagescafe.com.