Parlosa

Say hola to Carmen.

Parlosa gets you speaking Spanish, French or Italian, out loud, with everyday characters who remember your life.

Coming soon to the App Store

For learners who can read but freeze when it’s time to talk.

Sewing the Sail, by Joaquín Sorolla: Carmen’s painting in the app
Carmen · your neighbour ¡Hola! Soy Carmen, tu vecina. ¿Hablas español?

Your day in Parlosa.

Three screens from the app, with the characters, paintings and words you meet in your first week.

Your turn to answer.

Every character opens with a line and three replies: one great, one fine, one that doesn’t fit. Pick one. In the app you say it out loud.

CarmenYour neighbour downstairs

¡Hola! Soy Carmen, tu vecina. ¿Hablas español?

From hello to talking freely.

A few minutes to start, a few minutes a day, and you hear the difference over months.

  1. A few minutes

    A placement test finds your level, from A1 to B2.

  2. Minutes a day

    Short lessons, spaced review and grammar drills keep words fresh.

  3. Every day

    You talk out loud with your neighbour, the café owner, a colleague and a friend. They remember what you tell them.

  4. Over months

    Your voice diary plays your first replies next to your latest.

Every level is a painting.

Each level opens on a public-domain painting from its language’s world. From B1, a guest from history drops by each week you’ve talked on 3 days.

Questions, answered.

What does it cost?

Learning is free: placement, lessons, review, grammar and daily conversations with the four everyday characters. Coins pay for extras: a streak freeze, practising your mistakes, checking a sentence before you send it beyond the free ones each day, and inviting back a past guest. You earn coins by learning, or can buy them. They never lock a lesson.

Which languages and levels?

Spanish, French and Italian, from A1 to B2. Parlosa is made for the stretch between A2 and B1: you can read a fair amount, but speaking still feels out of reach.

Who are the weekly guests?

Figures from each language’s history, played in character: Miguel de Cervantes, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Francisco de Goya, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Isabel I de Castilla, Teresa de Ávila, Rosalía de Castro, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Molière, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Voltaire, Marie Curie, Sarah Bernhardt, Napoléon Bonaparte, Dante Alighieri, Artemisia Gentileschi, Leonardo da Vinci, Grazia Deledda, Galileo Galilei, Laura Bassi, Giuseppe Verdi and Maria Montessori. From B1, a guest visits each week you’ve talked on 3 days.

Where do my recordings go?

Nowhere. Your voice recordings stay on your phone. Your phone’s speech recognition turns what you say into text, and only that text is sent on, so characters can answer. The privacy policy has the details.

Is it AI?

The characters’ replies are written by an AI model, playing people we wrote: who they are, where they live, what they know. The app asks before anything you write or say is sent to it, and you can report any reply that’s wrong or out of place.

Do I need an account?

No. Start as a guest. When you want to keep your progress on another phone, save it with your email: you get a code, no password.

Start with hola.

Lessons, review and daily conversations are free.

Coming soon to the App Store