What you learn
Your progress, your scores, the language you picked. The path loops back on itself.
never leavesLegal notice & privacy
Terms of use, personal data, security: our trust agreement, written to be read.
Here, our favourite number is zero
0accounts to create
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You come, you learn, you leave: the rest is none of our business. This page puts that promise in writing, with no small print.
Who we are
Our purpose: passing it on
Lingala-Facile helps the Congolese diaspora, and anyone curious, learn Lingala: a talking dictionary, games, exercises, the Bible in five languages. The site is free and ad-free. By using it, you accept the terms described on this page: they come down to one idea, respect.
Access to the service
The site is open to everyone, day and night, with no account and nothing to install. You can also install it as an app and take it offline. We take great care of it, but a website is still a website: a technical interruption is always possible, with no promise of permanent availability.
The publisher
The site is published and run by Hans M’Luanda, responsible for publication. A question, a remark, a right to exercise: write to [email protected] and a human will answer.
Hosting
The site lives on Oracle Cloud servers in Zurich, Switzerland, and is delivered and protected by Cloudflare, which shields it against attacks. Two recognised providers, and a site that sleeps in Switzerland.
Your data
Four paths, and only two leave your device, without your name. You can follow each with your finger.
Ndako · your device
day streak, mastered words, chosen language, best scores
Your visit, counted
The page viewed, the time spent, the country guessed by Cloudflare. Nothing if your browser asks not to be tracked.
leaves without youYour feedback, if you give any
A rating, a comment. Your first name and country only if you tick the box.
leaves onceYour name, your traces, your location
Account, tracking cookie, IP address, profiling, advertising.
this path does not existNothing to switch off, nothing to accept: it is not a setting we turned to “no”, the path was never built.
What we don’t collect
Almost nothing is kept: visit totals, and what you choose to write.
No account, no cookie, no tracker, no profiling, no advertising. Even the audience measurement keeps only totals: how often each page is viewed, how many visitors per day and per month, how long a visit lasts, and which country visitors come from (guessed in transit by Cloudflare, never the city). No IP address, no cookie, no identifier, no log: so you aren’t counted twice, your browser simply remembers, on your device, the day of your last visit. And if your browser asks not to be tracked, nothing is sent. One exception, and it’s in your hands: if you answer the feedback window, your rating and optional comment are kept in a simple file, with no name or email attached: only write what you’d be fine keeping around. If you also tick the publication box, your comment may be hand-picked and shown on the Visitor feedback page, signed with the first name or nickname and the country you choose to give if you wish (both optional, you can stay anonymous; never geolocation, you type the country yourself). Without that box, your comment stays strictly private, and neither the first name nor the country is even asked for. You cannot lose what you do not hold.
What stays with you
What you learn never leaves your device.
Your settings and what you learn (chosen language, the light or dark theme, your reading position in the Bible, where you stand in the study programme, game preferences, your progress and your best scores) are stored in your browser’s local storage. They never leave your device and we have no access to them. To erase them, clear the site data in your browser.
If you write to us
Your address is used to reply to you, nothing else.
Your address is used to reply to you, nothing else. No mailing list, no resale, no sharing. You can ask for our exchange to be deleted at any time.
Technical intermediaries
No tracker, no ad network: nobody follows you here.
As with any website, requests pass through our two providers: Cloudflare (protection and delivery) and Oracle (servers). They process the technical data needed for transport, nothing more. No third-party advertising or analytics service is plugged in. One exception, and it is yours to make: the introduction video on the home page is only an image until you click it. If you play it, playback happens at YouTube (Google), which then sets its own cookies and applies its own rules; this is written under the video, before the click.
Your rights
You can ask for anything, and have everything erased.
The Swiss data protection act (FADP) applies, and the GDPR for visitors from the European Union: right of access, rectification and erasure. Since we keep almost nothing, the answer will often be “we have nothing on you”. That is the best possible answer. To exercise a right: [email protected].
Children first
A nine-year-old can explore alone, safely.
The site is designed to be readable from age 9: no account, no public messaging, no purchases, no ads. Parents can let their children explore with peace of mind.
Security
Your browser only runs code that came from here.
Encrypted connection, strict content policy (your browser only runs code coming from the site), hardened headers, zero outside dependencies. The best attack surface is the one that doesn’t exist.
Found a flaw? Write to us, leaving a reasonable delay before any public disclosure:
Content & rules
What belongs to whom
Quote it, share it, link to it: that is what it is for.
The site’s texts, design, illustrations and code belong to their author (© Lingala-Facile, Hans M’Luanda). Sharing a link or quoting a passage with its source: always welcome. Reusing whole pages or datasets: ask first, we are happy to talk.
Borrowed content
Every borrowing is named, with its licence.
Bible texts come from published editions, never reconstructed from memory: Louis Segond 1910, the World English Bible, the Lutherbibel 1912 and the World Portuguese Bible (public domain), and for Lingala the Open Lingala Contemporary Bible by Biblica (Creative Commons BY-SA). Part of the dictionary is taken from Wiktionary, under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 licence: we corrected it, translated it, sorted it by theme and by level, and those words stay shared under the same licence. Other words come from dic.lingala.be. The Andika typeface is published by SIL under the OFL licence. The music “AfricaDance” is a creation by Sebastiao Loopes, played with his agreement.
AI, in its right place
No verse is written by a machine, and no dictionary cell is filled by guesswork.
The audio pronunciations are a synthetic voice, generated offline from a voice released under Creative Commons: an honest approximation while we wait for real recordings, and the pages concerned say so. No Bible verse is written by a machine: they come from published editions. The first dictionary words, the most common ones, and most Swahili translations were drafted with the help of an AI, never filling a cell by guesswork; since then, every new Lingala word has been copied from a published source, and the rest is gradually being checked against published sources. So were the Lingala interface and the examples on the learning pages: 95% of their words are attested in the dictionary, the Bible or dic.lingala.be, and their phrasing awaits review by a native speaker. The site itself is developed with the help of an AI, under human review and human decisions.
Our commitment, and its limits
The site helps you learn, it does not replace a teacher.
The content is prepared with great care and a visible honesty rule: when a piece of data is uncertain (Kikongo, Tshiluba), the page says so. The site is nevertheless provided “as is”, with no guarantee of completeness or absence of errors: it helps you learn, it replaces neither a teacher nor professional advice. External sites we link to belong to their publishers. The levels shown (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, on the dictionary as in the level test) are a marker specific to this site, not a certification: they do not correspond to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR, A1 to C2).
Applicable law
Swiss law, and your own country’s rules stay yours.
These terms are governed by Swiss law; the venue is the publisher’s place of residence in Switzerland, subject to mandatory rules of your country of residence. If a clause were found invalid, the others would remain in force. This page evolves with the site: the date below is authoritative.
Last updated: 13 October 2026.