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Learn to speak, not to swipe.

15 minutes of adaptive lessons a day, plus two weekly AI conversations that actually answer back. 84% of consistent users hit conversational by month four.

4.8 · 38,408 reviews · 12 languages with native AI tutors
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Andrés

AI tutor · Madrid

Lesson 24/120

Andrés

"¿Dónde aprendiste a hablar español tan bien?"

Tap to replay slower

You · transcribed

"Aprendí en la universidad y luego viviendo en Buenos Aires por un año."

Accent ★★★★☆ · grammar 5/5

Nudge: "universidad" — try softening the 'd' to nearly silent.

Built to actually speak, not just to score.

No streaks. No leagues. No owl shaming you at 11pm. Just real conversation practice with a tutor who keeps up.

Today

Spanish · day 42

Conditional + ojalá

6 min

Listen · Bogotá café

5 min

Speak with Andrés

8 min · live

Streak: retired in 2024 ✓

Live · Andrés

Andrés is speaking…

5:14 elapsed

Progress · 6 mo

Conversational ✓

CEFR

B2

Words

2,408

Hours

62

Languages

🇪🇸SpanishB2
🇯🇵JapaneseA2
🇫🇷FrenchA1
🇨🇳Mandarin
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Listening

Bogotá café

"Bueno, lo que pasa es que..."

— Sofía, barista

"...es que cobramos siete mil por el café con leche."

— Sofía, barista

Tap for transcript

Today

Spanish · day 42

Conditional + ojalá

Live · Andrés

Andrés is speaking…

How it works

From "hola" to a real conversation in 16 weeks.

Three things compound: vocabulary built around your interests, listening practice with native speakers, and weekly conversation with an AI tutor who tracks your accent.

01~5 minutes

Placement

Hablas un poco?
Un poquito — basics
Some travel-level Spanish
Took a class in high school
Already conversational
Total beginner

5-minute placement.

Speak a few phrases, tell us why you're learning. We calibrate to your CEFR level + your real motivation (work, family, travel, just curious).

0215 min/day

Today · 15 min

Words5m
Listen5m
Speak5m

Twice a week:

20-min live with Andrés

15 minutes adaptive lessons.

Vocabulary tied to your interests. Listening to real native speakers. Speaking with phonetic correction. Daily, automatically.

03Month 4

Milestone

B1 → B2

Conversational

62h total · day 124

Conversational by month 4.

84% of consistent users hit B1/B2 by month four. Real conversations, real situations — not "the cat is on the table" indefinitely.

AI tutors

Tutors who speak the way locals actually do.

Each language has 3–5 AI tutors with distinct regional voices. Spanish has Andrés from Madrid, Sofía from Bogotá, Marcos from Mexico City. They have personalities, they remember last week's conversation, and they slow down when you ask.

  • Real accents, not "neutral". You'll learn rioplatense if you choose Buenos Aires Sofía, not Castilian-by-default.
  • Memory across conversations. Andrés knows you're a backend engineer who's planning a trip to Sevilla in October.
  • Adjustable speed + transcript. Slow it down, replay a phrase, see the text. All three on one tap.

Choose a tutor

A

Andrés

Madrid · Castilian

S

Sofía

Bogotá · Colombian

M

Marcos

CDMX · Mexican

V

Valentina

Buenos Aires · Rioplatense

Switch anytime · history carries

Accent training

Hear your own accent — and fix it.

Each spoken sentence is graded on pronunciation by syllable. You see where your accent diverges from native, hear the difference back-to-back, and re-record until it lands. Not perfectionism — just specific.

  • Per-syllable breakdown. "u-ni-ver-si-dad" → which syllable was off, by how much.
  • A/B native playback. Tap to hear your version, then native, side-by-side, instantly.
  • Region-specific scoring. If you chose Buenos Aires Spanish, you're scored against that, not Madrid.

Accent check

¿Dónde está la universidad?
¿Dón de es la u-ni -ver -si -dad?

Nudge: The 'd' in -dad is nearly silent in Castilian.

Real situations

Conversations that map to your real life.

Tell us why you're learning — moving to Japan, partner's family in Mexico, work trip to Paris. Lesson content rebuilds around it. The vocab for "leasing an apartment" gets pushed up if you said Tokyo in October.

  • Goal-driven curriculum. "DELE B2 in 8 months" reshapes everything from grammar order to vocab priority.
  • Built-in scenarios. Pharmacy in Mexico City. Train ticket in Tokyo. Dinner with your in-laws. 184 scenarios.
  • Career packs. Spanish for medicine, French for legal, Japanese for engineering. Optional, add-on.

Scenarios · Spanish

🏥 At the pharmacy · Bogotá

Filling a prescription with a Q&A back-and-forth

🍴 Dinner with your in-laws · Mexico

Formal address, food vocab, polite refusal

✈️ Airbnb check-in · Madrid

"The boiler isn't working" + handling repairs

💼 First day at the office · Buenos Aires

Workplace introductions, asking for clarification

🚂 Train delays · Barcelona

By the numbers

1.4 million adults. 12 languages. One that works.

1.4M

adult learners worldwide

84%

hit conversational by month 4 (consistent users)

12

languages with native AI tutors

4.8

from 38,408 App Store reviews

🇪🇸 Spanish 🇯🇵 Japanese 🇫🇷 French 🇨🇳 Mandarin 🇩🇪 German 🇮🇹 Italian 🇰🇷 Korean 🇧🇷 Portuguese 🇸🇦 Arabic 🇳🇱 Dutch 🇹🇷 Turkish 🇵🇱 Polish

Reviews

Adult learners. Real conversations.

"Six months of Sprout > 3 years of Duolingo. I actually had a 20-minute conversation with my partner's grandmother last week."

— Hana, San Francisco

"Andrés is patient in a way no human tutor I could afford has ever been. He never sighs when I get a tense wrong."

— Marcus, Austin

"Took the JLPT N4 after 5 months on Sprout, passed first try. The scenario for 'the conbini at 2am' was suspiciously perfect."

— Priya, London

"Wish German had more tutors — only two right now. But the two it has are excellent, and my accent went from 'foreign' to 'maybe Swiss' in 4 months."

— Yusuf, Amsterdam

"I'm 47 and was sure language was over for me. Eight months in, I moderated a meeting in French. With a sense of humor, even."

— Ines, Toronto

"The fact that there's no 'streak' is the unlock. I miss two days, I come back, no penalty. Lessons just pick up. Imagine."

— Aoife, Galway

App Store rating

4.8

38,408 ratings · Education · Top 8

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Pricing

$14/mo, less than one tutor hour.

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  • 184 real-world scenarios
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FAQ

What every adult learner asks first.

How is this different from Duolingo, Babbel, Pimsleur?

Duolingo gamifies vocabulary; you can't speak after a year. Pimsleur is audio-only and excellent for accent but slow on grammar. Babbel is solid for written exercises but rarely produces conversation. Sprout's core difference is the weekly AI conversations and per-syllable accent feedback — those two things make speaking the goal, not a side-effect. About 28% of our power users came from Duolingo specifically, and 84% of consistent users hit B1/B2 by month four; that's not a number Duolingo or Babbel publish.

Is the AI tutor a real voice or synthetic?

Synthetic, generated from a recording of a real native speaker who consented + is credited and paid royalties per conversation. The voice you hear as "Andrés" is built on hundreds of hours of recordings by a real Madrileño actor named Andrés Fuentes. We use modern voice models that handle prosody and regional intonation — most users tell us they couldn't tell within the first conversation, and the ones who could didn't mind.

Can I practice for DELE / JLPT / DELF?

Yes — Plus members can switch into an exam track for DELE (Spanish), JLPT N5–N1 (Japanese), DELF/DALF (French), HSK (Mandarin), and Goethe (German). The track replaces the default daily lessons with exam-aligned reading + listening + writing exercises, plus a final mock test with timing. About 14,000 of our members have passed an exam they prepped for on Sprout, JLPT N3 being the most common.

Does it work offline on long flights?

Plus members get a 7-day offline cache — lessons, listening exercises, vocab review all work without network. AI conversations require a connection (we run them server-side for latency), so you can't speak to Andrés mid-flight, but you can do everything else. Progress syncs the next time you're online.

What languages are coming next?

Hindi is launching in July 2026 (already in beta with 2,400 members). Vietnamese and Greek are slated for Q4. Hebrew is being scoped. We don't add languages until we have the native tutor talent + scenario library at the level the existing 12 ship at — half-baked language support is worse than no support, and we've held that line since launch. Vote for what you want next in Settings → Wishlist.

By month four, you'll have a conversation.

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