15 years of apps. 0 conversations.
Our students were not lazy. They had simply practised alone: tapping answers, never speaking, never being corrected by someone who cared.
Issue 002 / Live language lessons
The end of pretend fluency.
Parlato pairs you with a real tutor for live conversation, every week, and measures what you can actually say instead of how many streaks you kept.
The problem
Most language apps stop when the streak looks good.
That is exactly where fluency begins. Ordering, small talk, phone calls, arguments, jokes and meetings are not bonus content. They are the language.
The classroom wall
One tutor. One plan.
Pick a language and a goal. Your tutor builds every lesson around the conversations you actually need to have.
The line Parlato draws
Lesson complete
B1
Finished is not enough.
Vocabulary✓
Listening✓
Pronunciation✓
Grammar in use✓
Unscripted speech✓
Speaking test✓
A level should mean you can hold the conversation. If you can only pass the quiz, your tutor keeps you at the level until you can.
The test nobody wants
Can you survive the first real conversation?
SkillTypical language appParlato
VocabularyDrilledDrilled
ListeningSlowed downReal speed
SpeakingInto a micWith a person
MistakesMarked wrongExplained
Your goalsIgnoredPlanned for
ProgressStreak countSpeaking report
Weekly speaking report
Progress that you can hear.
Every lesson ends with a short recorded conversation and your tutor's notes. Apps show points. Parlato shows you, a month ago and today, side by side.
Hear a sample reportLevel B1 ✓ + tutor notes
Speaking report · week 14
Spanish · tutor: Lucía · 25 min recorded · new words: 38 · fluency +12%
Covered this week past tense · ordering food · directions · small talk · phone call · complaints · weather · plans
Hardest moment explaining a delayed train, without English
Tutor note ready for subjunctive next week
Honest label understood at speed, still pausing
No overclaim a level is never given for showing up
01Level test
02Tutor match
03Weekly lessons
04Recorded talk
05New level
The turnaround
The method had to earn itself.
50 minutes a week. Real people. Real progress.
Live lessons replaced drills. Recordings replaced streaks. Tutors replaced the owl. Students started ordering, calling and arguing in their new language within months.
Start here
Already speak some?
Take the ten-minute level test with a tutor. You'll know exactly where you are and what to work on first. The test is free. Lessons start when you are ready.
What you practise
Travel
Work
Family
Phone calls
Exams
Relocation
Reports
Spanish
Airports, hotels, menus, directions, emergencies.
French
Meetings, email, presentations, negotiation, small talk.
Korean
In-laws, stories, celebrations, the dinner table.
Conversation club
Group sessions, debates, film nights, book chats.
Student home
Not a game. A learning plan.
You always know your level, your next lesson, what your tutor noticed, and what to practise before then.
Parlato student home
On track
14Lessons done
B1Current level
612Words used aloud
6Recorded talks
“The app never told me I couldn't speak. My tutor did, kindly, and then fixed it.”
Free first lesson
Tell us your hardest conversation.
No credit card. No subscription trap. One tutor. Twenty-five minutes. Your language.
Speak. Practise. Prove it.
The era of tapping answers is over. Parlato gets you talking from the first lesson, and shows you the proof every week.