Zaban is the only language app designed specifically for rural Indians to learn English.

Our Goal

Our goal is to connect rural Hindi speakers throughout India to the rest of the world, by giving them the English skills to succeed. Traditional language-learning services like Duolingo are designed with an English-speaking audience in mind. So we decided to create a new service, one which would reach the millions of Indians who wish to learn English but can't.

Why Zaban?

Zaban [ज़बान] means language in Hindi. Zaban is a language training app.

Zaban is available for free and is created as open software under the MIT license, which means you can not only use it for free, but also modify it (if you know how to program).

Zaban texts, images and audio files are under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. (Cite Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0), which means you can use them for your own purposes without any restrictions. If you would like to distribute them further (in their original or modified form), you can do so only in a non-commercial way and with credit to the original authors.

Origin of Zaban

Zaban was created in the fall of 2023 by a volunteer for Pratham India, India's largest not-for-profit education organization.

How to find us

You can search for us using: "zaban", "ज़बान" or "ज़ुबान" . If you write about us, use the name Zaban.

Connecting millions of rural Indians to the rest of the world, one word at a time.

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