How It Works

You Can't Google Translate
a Friendship.

Google gets you through the trip. We get you to the part that comes after — the toast in French, the joke that lands on a date in Mexico City, the 2am conversation with hostel friends in Brazil. That doesn't come from an app. It comes from reps.

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Mateo — Hostel receptionist, Mexico City
15+
Cities to Explore
The World

Every Character Has a Life
You're Walking Into.

The friends you make abroad don't exist in a vacuum. They have jobs, neighborhoods, opinions about where to eat and what music is overrated. So do ours. We built real cities with real settings — hostels, restaurants, hotel lobbies, market stalls — and filled them with people who live there.

The bartender in Paris has regulars. The receptionist in Mexico City has been working that desk for three years. When you practice with them, you're not running drills. You're learning to belong somewhere. Because that's how it actually works when you move or travel somewhere new.

Research
Backed Method
AI + Human
One Conversation
Relationships
The Part You Can't Translate
The Character System

Characters That Remember You

Not generic AI tutors. Real personalities with memory, opinions, and regional authenticity.

Persistent Memory

Characters remember your progress, mistakes, and milestones across hundreds of conversations. Come back a week later and they pick up where you left off. Slip up on something you've practiced before and they'll call you out. This isn't a chatbot that resets — it's a relationship that grows.

Regional Authenticity

Mexican Spanish ≠ Argentine Spanish. Every character speaks with authentic regional accents, slang, and cultural context — because the version of a language people actually speak depends on where they live.

Distinct Personalities

Some are patient. Others push hard. Each has their own style, their own opinions, and their own way of letting you know when you're coasting.

A character referencing your last class

Memory in action — the character opens by referencing the class you had days ago.

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Practice Hub

Ways to Train

Not just conversations. A complete training system that attacks every skill from every angle.

Fluent Mode · Adaptive practice

Your mistakes become your practice — automatically.

Every question is generated from your own conversations. And it works from both sides — the slip you make with an AI character and the correction your teacher flags in class feed the same personalized queue. One memory, two sources.

Questions generated from an AI conversation
From an AI conversation
Questions flagged from a teacher class
From a teacher class
Nine ways to train — every one fed by your real conversations. See all practice modes
AI + Human · One Conversation

The AI Builds the Volume.
A Human Goes Deeper.

Real teachers and daily practice — apps don't have the first, teachers don't have the second, so we built the place where both happen. The AI is live today. The teacher directory is launching soon.

Live Today

AI Characters

People with real lives, voices, and contexts. Available whenever you want to speak — morning coffee, commute, before bed. The daily reps that build the muscle.

Frequency Daily · unlimited
Length 5 to 30 min
Live class video call
Shared class summary

The teacher walks in already knowing what you practiced — and what they cover flows right back into your AI conversations.

One conversation. Different voices.

Because every recommended teacher uses the same Project Fluency tool you're learning with, the loop closes itself. The teacher walks into class already knowing what you've practiced — what was hard, where you got stuck. What they cover in class, the characters pick up and practice with you all week. You just keep talking.

AI live today · Recommended teacher directory launching in weeks

Why We're Different

Two things worth saying out loud.

We Only Eat When You Speak

We charge by the minute. If you stop practicing, we stop earning. So everything we build is designed to get you closer to real connection — not to keep you subscribed and stagnant.

Aligned

Prove It, Don't Claim It

Anyone can say their product works. We're running a 60-day public challenge where the founder learns Portuguese using only Project Fluency, posting every transcript. Watch the thing get built in real time.

Public
Rewards That Matter

Practice Time Ownership

Unlike meaningless badges and streaks, we give you something real: PTO credits. The more consistently you practice, the more you earn — and you choose how to spend them in the PTO Store.

Free
5%
Tourist
10%
Local
15%
See how PTO works
PTO Store
Earn. Redeem. Repeat.

Spend credits on rewards that actually help you learn

Replay + Analysis20 PTO
Study Guide40 PTO
50% Off Next Month250 PTO

Ready to start speaking?

Project Fluency Your Journey to Connection
First Class
NOW
Starting Point
FLU
Real Conversations
Languages5
Characters60+
Availability24/7
BoardingNOW
FLU
Destination: Real Conversations
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