Every lesson is the next chapter.
Parla writes you a story in the language you're learning, at your level and about the things you care about. Your teacher reads it with you, explains what matters and listens when you answer. About ten calm minutes a day.
No streaks, no points. Just a story you'll want to finish.
¡Buenas tardes!
ESEl café de Lola
¿En serio?
Friday night at Lola's, and something goes wrong.
Need an idea?
Vocabulary
excitado→emocionado
Careful: excitado usually means something else in Spanish. When you're looking forward to something, say emocionado.
Typical for English speakers
Tap ▶ to hear Lola
How a session works
Ten minutes, three parts. Scroll through tonight's chapter.
Tonight Lola's café opens. Two new words: mujer and hombre.
Three lines from tonight's chapter. Which ones say how someone is right now?
It's Friday.
Lola is tired.
Marcos is ill.
Right. Está is for how someone is. English uses one be for both; Spanish splits it.
What you said
El café está lleno. Lola es cansada.
You told it well. One question: is being tired what Lola is like, or how she is tonight?
El café de Lola
You told Lola's evening in your own words.
“El café está lleno. Lola está cansada.”
Next time: can Alex really play?
Day one
You already know more than you think.
The first chapters lean on words your languages share. After you read, Parla shows you which ones your English carried. Then your teacher moves on to the small words that are actually new.
The small words (en, el, la, de) are the ones to learn. You'll get a couple a day.
Beyond the story
Hear it, say it, use it with people.
Sounds
Pronunciation gets its own place.
One sound a week, starting with your ear. Then you say it, and Parla tells you what it probably heard. The goal is being understood easily, not a perfect accent.
Did Lola say pero or perro? One is a quick tap of the tongue, the other a roll.
Your browser's voice reads these here. The app uses natural voices.
Conversations
Talk with the cast.
Chat with Lola and her friends by voice or keyboard. They answer what you meant and say it back the right way, like people do. Your teacher's note waits beside your line.
¿Y Alex? ¿Qué tal?
Alex es nervioso.
¿Está nervioso? Es normal.
Lola said está: that's how he is tonight, not what he's like.
Progress
Progress you can hear.
Parla shows how far you've come in your own words: the sentences you've said, dated, each a tap away from being heard again.
Example: Sam, learning Spanish for a trip to Seville
Es normal.
Lola está cansada.
¿Qué lleva el flan?
What we left out.
Rewards for showing up turn learning into a chore. Noticing that you understand more doesn't.
- Streaks
- XP and points
- Badges and leaderboards
- “Don't lose your streak!”
- Red crosses and buzzers
For every level
From your first word to the boardroom.
Same app, same teacher. Move up the levels and watch the help step back as you need it less.
English → Spanish
Example goal
Help you get
Questions
Before you download.
Which languages can I learn?
Spanish and German to start, with more on the way. Parla also uses the other languages you know to explain things and to point out words you already recognise.
Who is the teacher?
Your teacher is an AI. It writes your chapters, explains grammar when it matters, answers your questions and reads what you write and say. If you think it got something wrong, tap “I think I was right” and it checks again.
No streaks? What keeps me coming back?
The story. Every chapter ends on a question, and your progress shows up as things you can actually do. Nothing nags you, and a missed day is never held against you.
How long is a session?
About ten minutes. Pick a short, standard or long session, and stop at any point. What you did is kept, and the rest of the chapter waits for next time.
I already speak the language well. Is Parla for me?
Yes. At advanced levels Parla works on precision, register and vocabulary for your field, and has you rehearse real situations like a meeting, a pitch or an interview.
Chapter one is waiting.
Download Parla, tell it why you're learning, and read your first story tonight.