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12 million+ phrases spoken out loud by our users
250+ phrases out loud in your first week.
You need enough for the conversations you actually have. We teach those first, and nothing you won’t use.
Every lesson starts with a situation someone actually ran into. Don’t see yours? Just ask.
Listen, repeat and roleplay each conversation out loud until responding stops being a translation and becomes a reflex.
Speak & listen,
out loud
Roleplay practice
until it’s a reflex
Show up daily and repetition does the rest. Spaced repetition brings each phrase back right before you’d forget it. Expect progress in 2 weeks and significant progress in 30 days.
“I once tried to book a table at a sushi restaurant in Tokyo over the phone. The hostess got so confused she kept apologizing to me, even though I was the one who couldn’t speak. That’s why I built PrettyFluent.”
“This (app) is my secret weapon in Barcelona! Just enough to go about daily life and no more feeling lost or helpless while my husband and I live abroad.”
“Learning a language has never been as immediately impactful. Now I can charm the locals and navigate the food scene like a boss.”
I’m Erik, co-founder of PrettyFluent. I once tried to book a table at a sushi restaurant in Tokyo over the phone. Just my voice: no gestures, no Google Translate. The hostess got confused, then embarrassed, and kept apologizing to me, even though I was the one who couldn’t speak.
The languages I do speak, I spoke every day: Mandarin at work in Beijing, French with a French girlfriend. That daily practice is what made the words come out on their own. My Japanese never got that chance.
So Mark and I built PrettyFluent to give you that practice, out loud, for the situations you keep running into: dinner, the landlord, the doctor, whatever comes up where you live.
Most apps try to teach you the whole language. We start from the other end: the conversations you’ll actually have abroad, like dinner, the landlord or the doctor. You practice those out loud until they come out on their own.
Two mechanics do the work. Spaced repetition makes sure what you learn sticks instead of fading by next week. Roleplays put it to use: you rehearse real conversations out loud until responding stops being a translation exercise and becomes a reflex.
Any conversation you need. 500+ lessons started as user requests, like getting through the visa office or telling the landlord the hot water is broken. If yours isn’t there, request it in the app.
Pretty fluent: enough to get through dinner, the landlord and the doctor. It can be a stepping stone to full fluency, but it isn’t a full course in grammar and vocabulary.
The app works on any Apple iOS device running iOS 18.6 or newer.
We're working with beta users who are learning Chinese (China & Taiwan), German, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (Mexico & Spain), and Portuguese. Let us know if you're looking for another language here.
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