After ShadowCoach, I wanted more. The pronunciation tool was fine, but it only covered one part of learning: the mechanical side of repeating sounds. What I really wanted was to practice real conversation. To have someone — or something —…

The idea started in a pretty dumb way. I’d been using ChatGPT and other conversational AIs to practice English for a while, and while it was cool to be able to talk to a machine, I always had this feeling…