Everyday Languages
Meet Paco & Friends
Here's a feeling you might know. You spend weeks tapping the right cartoon gem in a language app, your streak climbing nicely — then you land in a new city, walk up to the café counter, and… freeze. All those points, and the words won't come out.
We wanted to build the opposite of that. So we made a new little family of apps that starts from the other end: not grammar tables, but the real moments you'll actually live.
Everyday phrases, not grammar drills
Each app teaches the language you'll genuinely say out loud — ordering a coffee, catching a taxi, making small talk, asking for the bill — across 100 real-life situations and more than 1,200 phrases, all with clear audio and word-by-word breakdowns.
It's the middle ground we always wanted for ourselves: friendlier and more playful than a heavy grammar course, but with far more depth than a pocket phrasebook.
Every app has a coach
And nobody learns alone. Each app comes with its own mascot who greets you every day with a tip, cheers you through practice, and quizzes you when you're ready:
Paco the parrot for Spanish, Gigi the cat for Italian, Bruno the bear for German, Coco the rooster for French, Mali the elephant for Thai, Horang the tiger for Korean, and Hachi the Shiba for Japanese.
Learn by doing — then come back to it
You choose and build your way through varied exercises (and type, in the Latin-alphabet languages), speak into the mic and get instant word-by-word feedback on your pronunciation, act out real dialogues in Play the Scene, and race the clock in Quick Match. Then smart spaced-repetition reviews bring each phrase back at growing intervals, so it has the best chance to stick.
One purchase, yours forever
No subscription. No ads. One purchase unlocks the whole course — every situation, every phrase, and all future updates — and the lessons, audio and reviews all work offline, so you can practise on the plane on the way there. Like everything we make, it collects nothing and keeps your progress on your device. (Speaking practice uses Apple’s speech recognition, which runs on the device wherever your iPhone supports it.)
Seven languages so far, with the same warm, unhurried feel across all of them. Say hello — ¡Hola!, Ciao!, Hallo! — and see how it feels to learn the words that actually leave your mouth.
