Giglish

Gliglish is a language learning app built around speaking rather than reading. Learners hold a spoken conversation with an AI teacher on any topic, or role play a real situation such as checking into a hotel, ordering in a restaurant or sitting a job interview, with an AI partner taking the other side. The app listens, reports grammar mistakes and scores pronunciation at the level of a sentence, a word or an individual sound, so errors surface while the learner is speaking instead of after a written exercise. It teaches 38 languages and regional variations, among them Mandarin Chinese in simplified and traditional script, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Greek, Turkish and the major European languages, with separate variants for Australian, British and American English, Brazilian and European Portuguese, and Mexican and peninsular Spanish. Transliterations for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Greek let learners speak before tackling a writing system, and the speaking speed of the AI voice is adjustable. Beginners can ask a question in their own language, and clicking any word plays it, translates it or explains it in context. Free material sits alongside the app, including English grammar and vocabulary lessons, minimal pair pronunciation drills, a calculator that estimates study hours to a target level, bilingual AI songs with karaoke lyrics, and talking comics. It runs in a browser and as an iOS app. A free plan gives 10 minutes of speaking a day with no signup. Gliglish Plus removes the limit and is billed monthly or yearly; current amounts appear in the pricing section of the homepage, which is served behind a bot challenge, so no figure is quoted here. Schools and businesses are covered by separate team accounts. Gliglish is built and run by a single developer, Fabien Snauwaert, who speaks five languages.