The fastest way to learn a language is to speak it from Day 1. With PrettyPolly, you can speak any of 36 languages whenever you want. Assess your pronunciation, track your fluency score and create custom scenarios/characters.
Hi guys,
Hope you're well. I made PrettyPolly after many years of trying to learn languages. I studied French for 5 years at school yet - when I went to France - I couldn't speak to anyone. I assumed that I was just bad at languages.
Later in life I travelled with some French friends. I spoke to them in broken French at first but, by the end, I was able to chat to them fairly comfortably (and was even able to joke around). I realized then that there's no substitute for speaking to natives regularly.
The problem is that we can't go off travelling whenever we want to learn a language. It can also be expensive and time-consuming to organize calls with native speakers, or to get a private tutor.
PrettyPolly lets you practice speaking with a human-like AI in any of 36 languages. You can create topics and scenarios to imitate any real-world scenarios you want to practice for. Some commonly used examples are:
1. Pretend you're interviewing me for a role as a software engineer
2. Pretend you're giving me an IELTS oral exam
3. Pretend you're giving me a tour of Rome
4. Play 20 questions with me!
If you're a beginner at a language, speaking from Day 1 can be intimidating, so we've built in features to get you over the initial hump. You can click on any word to translate it, and if you're ever stuck for what to say, you can click the "Stuck, get a hint" button. This gives you an AI-generated hint for what to say next. You can practice your pronunciation for that phrase, and the app gives you a pronunciation score so you can keep repeating the phrase until you sound like a native.
Finally, the app has something called the fluency score (out of 200). It is calculated using your pronunciation, the rate at which you speak and the number of unique words you use. This is great to help you track your progress over time.
I would really appreciate any suggestions, questions or other feedback. Also, feel free to share any language-learning stories of yours :).
Thanks,
Chris
Wow! This is awesome! I remember learning French for a month in college on Duolingo to impress my girlfriend and I remember her looking at me as if I was having a stroke when I started speaking it 😆
I recently picked up German, will be checking this app out for the same.
Very cool. I can definetly see myself polishing my skills on it after learning the vocab.
I love this! I think this is exactly what I need to actually motivate myself to learn a new language. Just made an account -- can't wait to try it out!
This is insane! The conversation topic feature is incredibly impressive—it's spot-on.
Very cool! @cwbuilds1 I can imagine this evolving into a conversation translator app when visiting abroad! This would be a game-changer
PrettyPolly looks impressive! Can't wait to try speaking different languages daily to enhance fluency. Best wishes for a successful launch!
This is really taking language learning to the next level. Lowering the threshold for conversations, allowing mistakes to happen while working on fluency!
"The fastest way to learn a language is to speak it from Day 1" - Although this might be a big barrier for people wanting to learn a new language, this is 100% true in my experience. I remember doing a job interview in Swedish. It was so horrible that I thought "it can't get any worse than this" and from that moment on I forced myself to speak. Hopefully with the help of PrettyPolly, people will take this step sooner! Great initiative, good luck CW
Have been using this for the last couple of months to learn Spanish and now I'm actually in Argentina having useful conversations with people. So much more fun than Duolingo or literally anything else I've used for language learning. Still got to get my fluency score up though 🙃
Use PrettyPolly near daily since I first saw it a few months ago and it has greatly improved my German!
The conversations are fluent, flowing, and enjoyable. It's also super helpful to have the heatmap/stats to look at my progress to date.
Thanks for creating PrettyPolly!
Chris W