Guides.
What everything here does, and how to get at it.
- 01Starting a room and inviting somebodyHow to start a Cross Convo room, share the code, get somebody else in, and pin or find things once it is busy. No account, no download, works on any phone.
- 02How everyone reads in their own languageEach person in a Cross Convo room picks the language they read in. Messages are translated for each reader, changing your language brings the history with it, and quantities are checked against what was typed.
- 03Learning a language hereTap any word to see what it means, keep the lines worth keeping, see how unfamiliar scripts are pronounced, and get your writing corrected as you go, with the reason behind it.
- 04Practising with Ren when nobody else is aroundRen is an AI you can practise with in the language you are studying. She speaks at your level and works in the words you are about to forget.
- 05Speaking instead of typingRecord a spoken message and it becomes text you can check before sending. Useful when you can say something faster than you can type it in a second script.
- 06Reviewing the words you savedWords you tap, lines you keep and words a tutor sends you all come back on a schedule you never set. How the review screen decides, and why using a word counts for more than recognising it.
- 07Finding out what you keep getting wrongEvery correction is stored, so the patterns in them can be named. Four separate corrections teach less than one line saying you drop the particle.
- 08Learning a language written in a script you cannot readJapanese, Arabic, Thai, Korean, Hindi and every other non-Latin script show how they are pronounced, so a beginner can read and say a sentence on day one.
- 09Talking to somebody who does not share your languageNot everybody here is learning. If you just want to talk to somebody whose language you do not speak, this is the shortest version of how.
- 10Keeping a room, and deleting a conversationWhat signing in actually changes, what a room without an account can hold, and how to delete a conversation for everyone in it.
- 11Putting a translating chat room on your own siteOne line of HTML puts a chat bubble in the corner of your site. Visitors write in their language, you read in yours, and nobody leaves your domain or makes an account.
- 12Using Cross Convo to teachGive students one link and they are in a lesson with you: no account, no download, no scheduling tool. Mark their writing, send them words, and read the hour back when it is over.