Lea Fakatonga6.4.1 - App Store

Lea Fakatonga is an affordable language learning app built for the Tongan diaspora. Whether you grew up hearing Tongan at home or you are starting from scratch, Lea Fakatonga meets you where you are and makes the journey feel rewarding.

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Learn with flashcards Flip through vocabulary cards across 16 categories - Greetings, Family, Numbers, Colours, Food and Drink, Body, School, Lotu, Emotions, Time, Nature, Home, Places, People, Transport, and Animals. Each word is paired with audio recorded by fluent Tongan speakers, so you hear the real pronunciation from day one.

Test yourself with quizzes Multiple-choice quizzes weight the words you find hardest, so every session moves you forward. Finish a quiz and earn XP on the reward screen - a small celebration for every effort.

Build a daily habit Your streak counts every day you open the app. Miss a day? A streak freeze keeps your run alive. Miss two in a row and the streak resets - but your progress never does. Earn a category badge when you master every word in a set.

Culturally authentic The design draws from Tongan visual identity: the deep crimson of the national flag, warm Pacific gold, and the geometric beauty of the ngatu - traditional tapa barkcloth. Dark mode only, built for a generation that studies at night.
Built to last Lea Fakatonga is USD $2.99/month - try it free for 7 days, cancel any time. No ads, ever. Share your subscription with upto 5 other people (Household sharing)
Malo e lelei - welcome.

Version History • New Guided Course unit, with graded practice in every lesson - every word you are taught now gets quizzed
• 224 course words added to three new practice decks: Action Words, Describing Words and Everyday Words
• 74 more course words now have native pronunciation practice
• New Pre-Lesson listening drill for tricky sound pairs, using real recordings
• XP now reflects how much you got right, and course sentences join your Review queue
• Build a Phrase: new levels, 'ko' sentences, the complete pronoun set (we two, we all, they two), and an in-flow word
picker that keeps your sentence in view
• Wrong answers in Build a Phrase now explain why
• Fixed a repeated word tile in Build a Phrase free build
• Fixed lessons offering pronouns the course had not taught yet
• Fixed the wrong verb form with dual and plural subjects
• Fixed blank answers being marked correct
• Fixed hold-to-record sticking after a denied mic, and made it work with a screen reader
• Spelling fixes across the Dictionary and Grammar, including 15 repaired entries
• The fakau'a is now called by its Tongan name everywhere
• Clearer message when in-app purchases are turned off on your device or Apple ID
• Restore Purchases now syncs with the App Store first, and no longer reports a failure as "nothing to restore" 6.4.1 Sep 29 • Flashcards now show a picture for every vocabulary word — 409 new illustrations, on both sides of the card
• Words still without art show a neutral placeholder instead of a blank card
• Fixed a Dictionary A-Z browse freeze that could crash the app on launch
• Flashcards now show an illustration for every one of the 409 vocabulary words 6.3.2 Aug 24 • Try before you subscribe — Guided Course Unit 1, Greetings, Beginner phrases and Review are now free
• Dictionary grown to 30,000+ entries, including everyday words like 'oku, 'ofa and 'alu that were missing
• A–Z browse now follows the real Tongan alphabet, with proper NG and 'okina sections
• Locks now name what they unlock, so free lessons no longer look paid
• Removed unverified Tongan subtitles from cards and headers
• Faster Dictionary startup 6.3.0 Aug 23 Guided Course improvements:
• The course map opens where you left off, not back at Unit 1
• A new Back button lets you revisit a step you skipped
• Sentence Slots now gives three tries with per-slot feedback
• Every lesson awards XP

Fixed a false "phone is on silent" warning during playback.

Dictionary: corrected 161 Churchward headwords against the original scans.

Mālō 'aupito - thank you 6.2.6 Aug 21 Bug Fixes and improvement 6.2.3 Aug 20 - Sentence Slots now gives you three tries. Check marks each slot right or wrong and leaves your tokens in place so you
can fix just the ones you missed — the answer is only revealed on the third attempt. (Scoring is unchanged: your first try
still counts.)
- Fixed the false "your phone is on silent" banner. Recording audio was leaving the app's sound settings in a bad state
for the rest of the session; every exit path now resets properly.
- 161 dictionary headwords corrected. Scanning errors in the 1959 Churchward dictionary (things like bākia for pākia —
Tongan has no /b/) were checked against the original page scans and fixed. 6.2.2 Aug 19 - Dictionary corrections: "Ke …" verb entries now use the correct bare verb forms
- New and updated course audio recordings 6.2.1 Aug 11 - New Guided Course — a full 13-unit speaking-first course (Hello & Goodbye through Identity & Colours), with pronunciation practice and native
audio for every lesson
- Lessons now explain wrong answers instead of just marking them incorrect
- Redesigned Home and Learn tabs
- New Helpful Learning Phrases section with audio
- Suggest a new word — submit words you'd like added to the dictionary, with community review
- Household community unlock sharing — one household member's contribution unlocks community features for everyone in the household
- Refreshed pronunciation recordings roll out automatically as they're re-recorded
- Fixed a bug where subscribers in a billing grace period could lose access early
- Ongoing dictionary accuracy fixes (corrected/retired a few unattested words and glosses) 6.2.0 Aug 9 - Word of the Day now rotates automatically each day
- Dictionary search surfaces more related entries via broader cross-reference matching
- You can now report an error on any dictionary entry, not just curated words
- Fixed a subscription bug where auto-renewals were not recorded, which could revoke access for paying subscribers
- Subscription price now clearly shown as USD $2.99
- New marketing landing page with a contact form, plus restyled privacy and support pages 5.7.2 Jul 28 - Streak Freeze — Going away? Freeze your streak from the Home screen or Profile so a break won't reset it. Pick how many
days, and reminders pause until you're back.
- New grammar cards — 34 new cards in the Dictionary's "Grammar & Structures" section, covering reduplication, pronouns,
plurals, and common prefixes.
- More everyday phrases — 30 new survival expressions to help you get by — courtesy & requests, everyday phrases, and
exclamations. 5.7.1 Jul 21 What's new
- Phrase Explore, restyled — refreshed browsing plus a new Practice session to drill phrases
- Focus list — build a curated study set, with undo for flashcards mid-session

Fixes
- Android: full-screen splash for a smoother launch, plus edge-to-edge display and orientation fixes 5.7.0 Jul 19 - Daily review now batches with a welcome-back flow.
- Share invites with app-store links.
- New currency words, numeric Numbers sorting, and spelling fixes. 5.6.3 Jul 17 - New Diacritics section in the Alphabet screen, with tap-to-play pronunciation for each vowel and consonant group.
- Alphabet song button and correct alphabetical ordering.
- Smoother audio playback: fixed overlapping clips, added tap-to-stop, and corrected several pronunciation recordings.
- Household members are now automatically added to your Friends Leaderboard.
- Public profiles for a safer, more private way to appear on leaderboards.
- Various stability fixes and behind-the-scenes improvements. 5.6.2 Jul 14 - New Translator — translate English to Tongan, right from the Dictionary and Learn tabs.
- Phrase Game grows — new Sentence Slots mode, plus Objects (Lesson 5) and a new Locative lesson.
- Adventure improvements — tap-to-hear answer choices in scenes and more vocabulary added.
- Update reminders — we'll let you know when a new version is available.-
- Better pronunciation — corrected Tongan spelling and stress marks (macrons) across curated words.
- Purchase & restore reliability fixes and other under-the-hood improvements. 5.6.0 Jul 8 Share Premium with your household — one subscription now covers up to six people, on both iPhone and Android!
• Invite family with a simple code; join, leave, or manage members
any time from your Profile
• Plus bug fixes and performance improvements 5.5.4 Jul 5 5.5.1 Jul 1