Live in another language
Learn English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German or Japanese by actually speaking it — in cities of cafés, markets and back-street bars, staffed by locals who only speak their language, remember your order, and tease you when your grammar slips.
The locals
Real personalities with real histories — tap a local to hear their greeting. They don't switch to English. That's the point.
¡Hola! ¿Qué te pongo?
Bonjour ! Je vous écoute.
Oi! Tudo bem?
What can I get you, love?
Na? Wat darf's sein?
いらっしゃいませ。
まいど！はよ座りや！
Grüß Gott! Kosten S' amal!
Why it works
Walk in
Pick a city, push open a door. Order a coffee in German, haggle at a market in Osaka, sort out a mixed-up bill in Vienna — real situations, not drills.
Actually talk
Out loud, with your voice. The locals listen, answer at your level, and help you say it better — the way a patient friend does, not a textbook.
Become a local
Come back and they remember you. Your notebook fills itself from words you actually used. One day Uwe invites you to the Thursday card game — and you understand every word.
Now serving
Tap a city to hear how the locals actually talk.
Spanish · French · Portuguese · English · German · Japanese — real regional dialects, not one generic voice per language. More languages and cities on the way.
There is no generic Spanish. Or French. Or Japanese.
A bus is a colectivo in Buenos Aires, a pesero in Mexico City and a guagua in San Juan. Every language here splits the same way — Québec French is not Paris French, São Paulo Portuguese is not Lisbon Portuguese, Osaka Japanese is not Tokyo Japanese — and your local speaks the variety you chose. Spanish is where we have mapped it word by word:
| Meaning | 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires | 🇲🇽 Mexico City | 🇪🇸 Madrid | 🇵🇷 San Juan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the bus | colectivo | pesero | autobús | guagua |
| a straw | sorbete | popote | pajita | sorbeto |
| popcorn | pochoclo | palomitas | palomitas | popcorn |
| dude | che | güey | tío | pana |
| money | guita | lana | pasta | chavos |
By country: 🇦🇷 Argentina · 🇨🇱 Chile · 🇨🇴 Colombia · 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic · 🇪🇸 Spain · 🇲🇽 Mexico · 🇵🇪 Peru · 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico
Every cell is backed by ASALE's Diccionario de americanismos, a national dictionary, or a native speaker who says where they're from. Where we couldn't source it, the cell stays blank.
Learn English by speaking it
English conversation practice with AI locals who listen, answer at your level, and never rush you — ESL speaking practice in American, British and Kenyan English, for self-learners and classrooms alike.
Everyday English, on location
Order breakfast in a Boston diner, ask the pharmacist for advice at the drugstore, ride the T, check into a Bloomsbury hotel, buy cheese by weight at Borough Market — everyday English where it actually happens.
English for work
Take a phone screen and a job interview in a Seaport office, run a standup, push back politely in a meeting — rehearse workplace English out loud until it comes easily.
More than one English
American English in Boston, British in London, Kenyan English in Nairobi — cafés, pubs, a street-food tour, and a Nairobi market where haggling is expected. Between visits, cook along to recipes and read stories at home.
What you get back after you speak
Talking is only half of it. When you leave the café, Loquala tells you what to fix — which sounds slipped, how a local would have said your line, and how the whole conversation went.
Pronunciation coaching, sound by sound
Read a line aloud and it comes back scored — so you learn whether you were actually understood, not just whether you were brave. And the coaching goes right down to the sound: tongue, lips and air, naming the word you said it in, instead of «try harder».
How a local would have said it
When a sentence is understood but isn't what a native would say, your line comes back struck through, the natural phrasing under it, and one line on why — the polite form instead of the familiar one, or the verb they'd actually reach for.
Nine marks, not one score
Every conversation is graded on effort, sounding native, initiative, task success, understanding, fluency, accuracy, range and recovery — plus a coaching note, and the notebook words you managed to use again.
Scores, tips and coaching notes are written in your own language, not just English.
They're waiting for you.
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