Many ways to say it. One worldwide tribe. Vernaculator is a fun vocabulary tool for kids, classrooms and anyone who loves words. Type what you want to say and our animated characters say it back their way, from Brooklyn slang to Shakespeare, so you learn new words and how people all over the world talk. Learn with ✨ Say it fancy and 🧠 Word games, make talking clips to share, and the best clips each week become Big Sal's World, a weekly cartoon with a lesson. Teachers: see our free classroom activities. Free to use; tokens give your clips a real voice. P.S. You own what you make, and if this takes off, we plan to pay our top creators.
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Open vernaculator.app in Safari.
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Android
Open vernaculator.app in Chrome, Brave or Samsung Internet.
Tap the ⋮ menu (or ☰ in Samsung Internet).
Tap Install app (or Add to Home screen), then Install.
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For fun and for understanding how people talk. Slang belongs to the communities that made it, and the glossary credits where each term comes from. Every character here is made up and doesn't represent any real person or group. Translations are AI-generated and can be wrong, so correct them. Vernaculator is PG: no swearing at any heat. And remember: it's nice to be nice! Laughter is the best medicine, so laugh it up, but not at others' expense. Be kind to one another. We good? 🤝
Vernaculator Pro · $2.99 one-time Heat 7 to 9 (bolder, sassier and more dramatic, always PG), the fan-favorite styles (Gen Alpha, NYC, LA Chicano, Hip-hop) and the "All styles" mode, plus 200 bonus tokens for the Premium AI and premium voices. Free use stays at heat 1 to 6.
Beta: no charge yet.
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About the dialects. A lot of the slang here comes from African American Vernacular English (AAVE), a full dialect with its own grammar (habitual "be", "finna", dropping "is/are"), and from Chicano English and Caló, which mix English and Mexican Spanish. Hip-hop and the internet carried many of these words into everybody's mouth, so each entry says where a term actually started.
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