---
title: "Learn a language through trivia"
description: "A small app for learning a language through trivia."
publishedAt: 2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z
tags: ["side-projects","languages"]
canonical: https://danielmay.co.uk/posts/foreign-trivia/
---


Last week I felt inspired to build [Foreign Trivia](https://trivia.lmny.dev): a small app for learning a language through trivia. Pick one of eight languages, get ten multiple-choice questions in that language, see how you did.

<img class="phone" src="https://danielmay.co.uk/posts/foreign-trivia/languages.jpg" alt="Foreign Trivia mobile language picker: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish" />

Each question has a few hints you can tap. Get one wrong and you get the correct answer plus an option to see the English translation, so you can use it without already being fluent.

<img class="medium" src="https://danielmay.co.uk/posts/foreign-trivia/question.jpg" alt="A French question on Foreign Trivia asking which is the official language of Brazil, with the correct answer (Le portugais) shown in green and a wrong selection (L'espagnol) shown in red" />

It's been useful on my Spanish and French refreshers. Try it at [trivia.lmny.dev](https://trivia.lmny.dev).

<img class="phone" src="https://danielmay.co.uk/posts/foreign-trivia/result.jpg" alt="Foreign Trivia round-complete screen in German: 8 out of 10, 'Hervorragend! Excellent work, you clearly know your stuff'" />