Language practice
Practise a language with strangers
The hardest part of learning a language is not grammar — it is finding someone patient enough to be bad at it with. Text chat with a stranger removes the two things that stop most learners: scheduling, and the fear of embarrassing yourself in front of someone you will see again.
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- EnglishEveryday conversation practice, with tips and the mistakes learners make most.
- Spanish EspañolSpanish is the language people study for years and still freeze up trying to use.
- Japanese 日本語Japanese is the language where reading practice and producing practice come apart hardest.
- French FrançaisFrench written casually looks almost nothing like French taught formally.
- German DeutschGerman rewards live practice more than most languages, because its difficulty is structural rather than lexical.
- Korean 한국어Korean is the language most learners now arrive at through music and drama, and that produces a very particular gap: decent listening, growing vocabulary, and almost no experience producing a sentence.
- Portuguese PortuguêsPortuguese learners hit a fork almost immediately: Brazilian or European.
Why text and not voice
Text gives you something a call cannot: time. You get a few seconds to assemble a sentence, you see the words written down, and you can scroll back to read what your partner actually wrote rather than what you thought you heard. That makes it the right first step for anyone who freezes up speaking — you get the repetitions in before pronunciation and listening become the bottleneck.
It is not a complete substitute. Text will not fix your accent and it will not train your ear. What it will do is get you producing the language, which is the step most learners skip for years.
How matching works
Matching is random rather than by language, so a given match is not guaranteed to speak what you are learning. The quickest way to find a practice partner is to say so in your first message — “practising Spanish, anyone up for it?” — and hit Next if the answer is no. Next is instant and unlimited, which is the trade for never having to schedule anything with anyone.
What each language guide covers
Every guide is written for that language specifically: the hurdles learners actually hit in a live chat, openers you can paste straight in, the mistakes English speakers make most often, and the conversation norms nobody teaches alongside the grammar.
Questions about language practice
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Your first practice partner is one tap away
Say what you are practising in your first message, and hit Next until someone says yes.