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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
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