Hablo: Speak & Learn English

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4.7of 5 · store
23,331ratings on the App Store
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An AI tutor for spoken Spanish and English practice through role-play scenarios: a cafe, a doctor's appointment, work. The app hears your speech, responds, and flags conjugation and pronunciation errors in real time. Users coming from Duolingo notice the difference: there they read and clicked, here they speak. Limitation: only two languages, no sequential grammar course.

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What people use it for

Those who know Spanish or English at a beginner level and want to move from reading and tests to real speaking.

What reviews praise

Conversational scenarios close to real situations: the AI holds a full dialogue rather than just waiting for a correct answer.
One user, after four years of Duolingo, started speaking Spanish for the first time here.

What reviews complain about

Does not build a grammar foundation: no structural explanations, only in-the-moment corrections.
Beginners without a base will struggle since the dialogue pace is too fast without prior pattern practice.

What users experience

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I only used this app for the last 2 hours or so, in that time I realized that this is way better than Duolingo at getting you to become better at conversational Spanish. Duolingo is good for teaching you words, but how to use them in conversation? That's where this app shines.