Why another language app
How we're building Tulpy, and why it leaves so much out.
You can spend a year on a language and never once use it. You go to class, do the exercises, learn the rules, and never get around to reading anything in it and finding something out.
We want the language working for you from day one. Not later, when you're finally "good enough", but today. You open the app, read something, and learn what a new photo of Mars shows, or why ants don't bump into each other in their tunnels.
For that to happen, a text has to get two things right at once. If it's too hard, you won't understand it. And if it's boring, you'll stop reading, even if you did understand it. So the feed picks texts that fit your level and what interests you.
Understanding a word isn't remembering it. A word you figured out on Tuesday is new to you again a week later. So we bring it back ourselves: it turns up in a new text right about the time you'd forget it. You don't have to make any cards yourself.
Reading won't teach you to speak. A language has two sides, understanding and speaking, and the second one rests on the first. As you read, you're laying the foundation: by the time you have to speak, you'll already have the words you need.