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Pragma
Catch the hint. Answer in kind.
What a sentence does: asking, refusing, hinting, being polite — the melody that changes it, and the everyday English of a real place, starting with the Upper Midwest.
Pragma has just been started. There is no version to try, nothing to download and no date yet; this page says what it is being built to do. It follows the family’s rule: free is everything that works inside the app, and what it sends to other apps or exports will be Pro.
The top step
After the sound, the word, the sentence and its meaning comes the last question: what is the sentence for?
- sounda vowel, a consonant
- syllableonset, vowel, coda
- wordfound, kept, said
- sentenceheard and said back
- meaningwhat it saysComing soon
- usewhat it doesComing soon
Said, and meant
A hint
It’s cold in here.
meant: could you close the window?
Oh — I’ll shut it.
The melody
- Ope!oops, excuse me
- You betchayes, sure
- Come with?come with us?
- popsoda
- hotdisha casserole
- Minnesota nicepolite, and indirect
What it will do coming soon
- RequestsFrom Close the window to Would you mind…? — which one fits, and to whom.
- RefusalsSaying no without a no: I’d love to, but…, and what it tells the listener.
- Politeness and directnessHow direct is too direct, and how indirect is too much — in American English.
- Implied meaningIt’s cold in here as a request: the line said, the line meant, the answer that fits.
- Intonation that changes meaningThe same words as a question or a statement, a doubt or a surprise — drawn as a melody.
- Everyday English of a placeRegional English, starting with the Upper Midwest: Minnesota and Iowa.
- IPA and a voiceEvery line with the family’s broad IPA, in your stress style, and a voice to hear it.
- On your phoneNo server in the first version: the lessons and your progress stay on the phone.
Your data
No account, no ads, no tracking, and no server in its first version: the lessons and your progress live on your phone and travel only to your own devices or your own Google Drive, as in every app of the family. Its privacy policy will be on this page before there is anything to install.
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Package
com.neurophonetics.pragma
The rest of the family
Separate apps, each doing one job. None of them needs another — they simply go well together.
