Speak the language
you’ve been studying
— out loud, tonight.
Build an activity around a conversation you want to have, practice out loud with an AI partner, and review your transcript and feedback to choose what to try next.
7 free conversations — plus 7 AI-built activities in your first 7 days, then 3 of each every month. No credit card.
Illustration of the ChitterChatter learner dashboard: a prompt box where a learner describes the conversation they want to practice — for example, “I’m visiting family in Mexico City in March. I want to get through a whole dinner without switching back to English.” — with pickers for the language and the proficiency level, and a button to send the request.
Your dashboard. Describe the conversation you want to have, in any of 32 languages — the activity gets drafted around it.
How many minutes a week do you actually speak the language?
Reading, writing, and listening you can practice alone. Speaking has always needed someone else free at the same time, and most weeks nobody is. Practice that counts has to be structured, flexible, and assessed all at once — and practicing alone gives you none of the three.
Build it once. Practice it as often as you like.
Only the first step takes any setup.
Describe it. Get a draft.
Type what you want to practice and AI drafts the scenario, objectives, and vocabulary — or copy an activity from the library.
You talk it through, out loud.
A partner that listens, follows up, and adapts to your level — in the browser, on a phone if that’s what you have.
Read what came back, and go again.
What worked, what to work on, and the whole transcript — then every attempt lands in your progress table.
Each step in detail below — building an activity, the feedback you get, and your progress table.
You decide how much help you get.
Describe what you want to practice in a sentence and AI drafts the whole activity. Then the interesting part: pick a moment you might stumble, and choose what should happen. More support lowers frustration; less builds independence.
How do you say “the bill”?
Those three choices live in one tab of four.
The editor opens on the AI draft with every field filled in. You edit what matters and leave the rest — nothing is locked, and nothing needs finishing before you can start practicing.
Title, description, target language, and how long you want a session to run.
What you want to be able to do, the proficiency level you’re aiming at, vocabulary you want to use, and tips you see first.
The scene, the character, voice and pace, cultural context, the opening line — and the scaffolding rules.
Which dimensions this activity is evaluated on, plus any dimensions of your own.
Practice it right away, submit it to the Community Library, or copy one somebody else has already shared there.
Build your first activity in about a minute.
Seven conversations and seven AI-built activities in your first week, free.
Feedback for you. In your own words.
Not a score. Every note is anchored to the exact words you said, with the audio beside it — so “work on your reflexive verbs” arrives with the three places it happened.
Buenas tardes, bienvenida. ¿Ha reservado mesa o prefiere sentarse en la terraza?
No, no tengo reserva. Quiero sentar en la terrazanote 1, por favor, hace muy buen tiempo hoy.
Perfecto, la terraza está libre. Aquí tiene la carta. ¿Le traigo algo de beber mientras decide?
Sí, gracias. ¿Qué me recomienda de la carta?note 2 Y una cervezanote 3, por favor.
El cocido madrileño está muy bueno hoy. Es un plato bastante grande, para compartir.
Click a marked phrase to open its note, replay the turn, or record a retry. It is all waiting the moment you hang up — nobody has to grade it first.
The whole record, not just your last conversation.
What you finished, how many conversations it took and how long you spent — with every attempt still there to reopen, alongside the feedback it came with.
Below the fold: the rest of your activities, and every attempt inside each one. This screen keeps count of what you actually did — activities completed, conversations, minutes, attempts — and stops there. No score, no level, no streak to keep alive. It is a record of practice; what to work on next comes from the feedback on each conversation, not from this page.
Have the conversation before you have to have it.
Pick the situation you are dreading, and rehearse it until it stops being one.
Designed around how people actually learn to speak.
ChitterChatter comes out of Cornell research on conversational AI for learning. Six ideas shape how activities, AI partners, and feedback are built — and why you get notes anchored to what you said rather than a score out of ten.
Target i+1, not random conversation
Practice should sit close to a learner’s current level while still asking them to stretch. You set the language, level, context, vocabulary, and communication goal; the AI partner keeps the exchange moving with follow-up questions instead of jumping to unrelated topics.
Lower the affective filter so students actually speak
Anxiety, embarrassment, and fear of evaluation block students from taking risks. Practice can happen privately and asynchronously, repeat attempts make errors useful, and feedback is framed as formative guidance rather than a public performance judgment.
Align tasks with ACTFL-oriented communicative goals
Not an official rating instrument — a way to support ACTFL-aligned classroom thinking: what learners can do with language, in which contexts, with what control and interactional support. Activities are built around functions like narrating, comparing, or resolving a problem.
Design for willingness to communicate
Learners speak more when confidence, perceived competence, topic relevance, and the social situation support participation. Students rehearse familiar situations before performing them in front of others, and small successful exchanges build confidence for later real-world interaction.
Use role play as structured interactional practice
A useful speaking task gives learners a role, a goal, constraints, and a reason to negotiate meaning rather than recite known language. Students practice repair strategies — asking for clarification, rephrasing, responding to unexpected follow-ups.
Keep the learner in the interpretive loop
AI expands opportunities for practice and produces useful artifacts, but feedback is evidence to read rather than a verdict to accept. Every note points at the words you actually said, so you can judge for yourself what is worth working on next.
Full write-ups of the methodology, our approach to AI feedback, student data privacy, and school adoption live on the Trust & Research page.
Read the researchWhy this works when you’re on your own.
Three things that decide whether speaking practice actually happens.
It practices the part you can’t practice alone
Vocabulary, grammar, and listening all survive being studied solo. Speaking is the one that needs somebody on the other side — and it is usually the one that gets skipped.
32 languages, whenever you want
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi and more — the same practice, the same feedback, whichever one you are learning.
No scheduling, no partner to find
Practice at 11pm between shifts if that is when you have a quiet room. Nothing to book, nobody to arrange it with, and it runs in a browser on the phone you already carry.
Practice in your language.
32 supported and counting. Type yours to check.
All 32 supported languages — start typing to filter.
Don’t see yours? Most of our newest languages started as somebody asking for them.
Start free. Upgrade only if you practice a lot.
Your first week includes seven conversations and seven AI-built activities. After that the free plan keeps going at three of each a month.
Get started with no credit card, and keep practicing every month at no cost.
- 7 conversations in your first 7 days
- 7 AI-built activities in your first 7 days
- Then 3 free conversations every month
- Then 3 free AI-built activities every month
- All 32 languages
- Full feedback and conversation history
For serious learners who practice every day. $120 billed annually if you prefer.
- Unlimited conversations
- Unlimited AI-built activities
- All 32 languages
- Progress tracking and history
- Priority access to beta features
- Cancel anytime
No credit card to start · Cancel anytime · Annual billing available
Teaching a class?
Instructor accounts are free forever, with a full free semester for your students.
The questions learners ask first.
Short answers before you start practicing.
Do I need a credit card to start?
No. Create an account with your email and start practicing. We only ask for payment if you choose to upgrade to a paid plan.
What happens after my first 7 days?
You keep your account. Your starter week includes 7 conversations and 7 AI-built activities, then you continue on the free plan with 3 free conversations and 3 AI-built activities per month. You can also upgrade to Individual Pro anytime for unlimited practice.
Is this a real conversation or repeat-after-me practice?
It is a real conversation. Your AI partner listens, responds, asks follow-ups, plays roles, and adapts to your level in real time.
Will this work if I am a beginner?
Yes. Start with introductions, ordering food, directions, and simple everyday tasks. ChitterChatter meets you at your current level.
Will advanced learners get anything out of it?
Yes. Advanced learners often need unstructured speaking reps more than another lesson. You can practice nuanced, professional, social, or travel conversations on demand.
Which languages do you support?
ChitterChatter supports 32 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Yoruba, Bangla, Persian (Farsi), Burmese, and English.
Does it work on my phone?
Yes. ChitterChatter runs in the browser on phone, tablet, and desktop, so you can practice wherever you have a quiet moment.
How is this different from apps like Duolingo or Babbel?
Those apps help with building blocks like vocabulary and grammar. ChitterChatter is the speaking gym where you turn what you know into actual conversation.
Is my voice data private?
Your conversations are yours. ChitterChatter does not sell or license audio recordings, use them for advertising, or use them to train public models. Service providers process data only as needed to provide the service.
The hardest part is saying the first sentence.
Pick a situation, say it out loud, and find out what you already know. Your first conversation can happen in the next five minutes.
Start Practicing FreeNo credit card · Seven conversations in your first week · Cancel anytime