Hear it, say it, keep it.
A language reaches you through your ears first. You listen to whole sentences, you meet one new word at a time, and at thirty words, the conversation begins.
Start for freeきょう は あつい です
kyō wa atsui desu
It is hot today.
You already know the rest. Only atsui is new, and you meet it inside a sentence, never alone in a list.
Who it is for
Ether Echo teaches you to understand and to speak. Not to read, not to write.
If your goal is to decipher kanji or to keep a vocabulary notebook, this is not the right tool, and we would rather tell you here than three weeks from now.
How it works
One sentence, one new thing.
You never hear two unknown words in the same sentence. You already know the rest, so the meaning arrives without translation.
Reviews land at the right moment.
Every word comes back just before you forget it. Not the day after, when you waste your time, and not three months late, when everything has to be learned again.
A tutor who speaks at your level.
It only uses words you already know. When you get something wrong, it tells you what your sentence meant, gives you the right one, and moves on. When you get it wrong several times, it makes things simpler.
What it costs
Everything you learn on your own is free, forever: the cards, the reviews, the listening, the pronunciation. Only the conversation is paid for, because it is the only thing that costs money by the minute.
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Payment and billing go through Link, where you manage and cancel your subscription whenever you want.
What we are working on
More languages.
Seven languages are open today: English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Mandarin and Russian. More will follow. One language that works beats six waiting for their content.
More exercises.
The ladder runs from recognition to speaking out loud. We keep adding rungs, and we keep tuning when each one comes.
A better tutor.
The conversation will appear as text while it happens, and you will see at a glance who is speaking.
Thirty minutes with the tutor, once, on us.
Enough to judge for yourself. No card needed to create an account.
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