For learners past the basics
You understand more than you can say.
Viglot closes that gap. You practice real conversations from your own life, like your job, a move abroad or dinner with your partner’s family, until the words come when you need them. In 40+ languages, from intermediate to advanced.
Now on iOS and Android
Free to start. Try every Premium exercise free during the trial.
Why you understand a language but still can’t speak it
Your mind goes blank
You’ve studied for months, maybe years. You can read a menu and follow a conversation. But when it’s your turn to speak, nothing comes out. Tapping the right answer never trained you to find the words yourself.
Your app ran out of things to teach you
Ordering a coffee and asking the way won’t get you through a doctor’s appointment, a job interview or dinner with your partner’s family. Past the basics, most apps just repeat the same drills with longer words.
The lessons aren’t about your life
Small talk about hobbies you don’t have, jobs you’ll never do and trips you’re not planning. Words you’ll never need don’t stick, and the ones you do need never come up.
Speaking practice built around your own life
Fluency isn’t knowing more words. It’s getting them out when it counts, and that’s what Viglot trains.
Learn the language for your life, not a textbook’s
Tell Viglot what you need the language for: your job, a move abroad, your partner’s family, football, cooking. Every lesson becomes a scene from that life, with a picture of the moment and a native-quality voice for every phrase. Words you need, seen in a real moment, are words that stay.
Practice speaking without an audience
No one to practice with, or too self-conscious to try in front of people? In Viglot the app plays the other person: it’s there whenever you have ten minutes, never loses patience and never judges. You get a goal, like returning a faulty jacket or explaining your symptoms, and talk it through out loud. Afterwards you find out whether you got there and what to say better next time.
Don’t stall when a word is missing
In a real conversation you forget a word, or the other person gets you wrong. Viglot trains you for both: you practice saying things in your own words, and Viglot even misunderstands you on purpose, so you learn to rephrase, give an example or ask a clarifying question until your point lands.
Stop forgetting what you learned
Words you struggle with come back sooner, words you know come back later, so your time goes where it’s needed. And a word only counts as learned once you’ve produced it yourself, not just recognized it.
Never too easy, never too hard
The difficulty follows you, not a fixed plan. It eases off when you’re struggling and pushes when you’re cruising, so every session stretches you a little and none of them overwhelms you.
Exam coming up?
Type your exam as the topic, for example Goethe B1, DELE B1, DELF A2, JLPT N4, HSK 3 or TOPIK II, and your lessons follow its syllabus unit by unit. Any other topic works just as well. Viglot isn’t affiliated with any exam provider.
Rehearse the conversation before it happens
Talk it through before it’s real.
Pick up a parcel, complain about a noisy neighbor, agree on a price. You get the situation and a goal, you speak, and the other side answers in character. At the end you see whether you reached your goal and exactly what to say better next time.
Get your point across, even when they get you wrong.
Being misunderstood is the moment most learners give up. Here the other side gets you wrong on purpose, and you rephrase, simplify or give an example until your meaning lands. It’s exactly what you’ll need in a real conversation abroad.
Find the right words on the spot.
You see a situation and say what you’d say, out loud, with no answers to pick from. Then you find out whether it fit the moment and sounded natural, and you get a better way to say it to learn from.
Practice the part that’s hard for you
Lessons mix listening, speaking, grammar and culture, and you decide what’s in them: switch off what you don’t need and spend your time where it helps.
Not sure you sound right?
Read a phrase aloud and see, word by word, how it came across.
Can’t keep up when people talk fast?
Follow real dialogues at natural speed, then check what you actually caught.
Know the rule but get the form wrong?
Build the tricky form yourself and find out exactly what to fix.
Only know one way to say it?
Say a phrase again in your own words and find out whether the meaning survived.
Worried about saying the wrong thing?
Guess what a local would do, then learn the custom behind it.
Plus the free core exercises that lock new words in: fill-in-the-blank, sentence reconstruction, catch the words and more.
Learn from the language you already speak
Most apps only teach from English. Viglot works in any pair of 40+ languages, in either direction, and the app itself can run in your language too: a German speaker learning Chinese gets German menus, a Persian speaker gets the whole app right to left.
Every language. Full support.
Every language gets the same lessons, speaking practice and reviews, including regional varieties like Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Egyptian Arabic. No language is an afterthought.
Albanian
Arabic (MSA)
Arabic (Egypt)
Arabic (Levantine)
Bulgarian
Catalan
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (HK Traditional)
Chinese (TW Traditional)
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Malay
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Russian
Serbian
Slovak
Spanish (Latin America)
Spanish (Spain)
Swedish
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese
From install to progress in minutes
Pick any two languages
Spanish from English, Persian from German, Chinese from French: any combination works. Tell Viglot your level and what you need the language for.
Practice a real situation
Each lesson is one scene from your life. You hear the phrases, use them in exercises, then say them yourself, out loud.
Keep what you learn
Words come back just before you’d forget them, and the difficulty grows with you, from intermediate into advanced.
Taking the German B1 speaking exam? Every task, useful phrases and how to practice alone →
Frequently asked questions
I’ve used other apps and still can’t speak. Why would this be any different?
Most apps reward recognition — picking the right answer from four choices. Viglot only counts a word as learned once you’ve produced it yourself: said it out loud, rebuilt the sentence, placed it back in context. Production is what builds vocabulary you can actually use when speaking.
Will I actually remember the words long-term, or just until the next session?
That’s the goal. Every word you see is tracked and resurfaced at intervals tuned for long-term retention. Nothing disappears into a ‘completed’ folder — words cycle back until they’re stable in memory.
Can I choose which exercises a scenario uses?
Yes. Every scenario has an exercise menu — turn any type on or off, even in the middle of a session, and the lesson reshapes on the spot without losing your progress. Want pure speaking practice? Switch off everything but the speaking exercises. In the mood for a grammar grind? Keep just those. It’s your call, every time.
Which exercises will I see at my level?
Each CEFR level starts with the exercises that help most at that stage — recognition and word banks early on, production and nuance as you climb, pronunciation easing off near the top. Everything below is just the default — you can override almost every row per scenario.
| A1 | A2 | B1 | B2 | C1 | C2 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flashcards & word banks | ● | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| Recognition & listening match | ● | ● | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| Production drills (fill-in, reorder, rebuild) | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | ○ |
| Error correction | ○ | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Pronunciation & speaking | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ | ○ |
| Listening comprehension | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Cultural nuance | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Grammar exercises | — | ● | ● | ● | ● | ○ |
| What Would You Say? | — | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Voice Tasks & Make Yourself Understood | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| In Your Own Words | — | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
- ● On by default
- ○ Available — turn it on
- — Not at this level
- ★ Premium
Defaults only — you can override almost any row per scenario. Grammar exercises, “What Would You Say?” and “In Your Own Words” aren’t offered at A1, where they wouldn’t help yet, and pronunciation eases off at C1–C2 (still toggleable).
What level is Viglot for — am I too advanced, or not ready yet?
Viglot supports the full range, A1 through C2, and it’s tuned for intermediate and advanced learners (B1+) who keep stalling on the same plateau. Beginners are welcome — the early levels lean on recognition and word banks to build a base — but if you’re starting from absolute zero, a foundational course first won’t hurt. The further along you are, the more the speaking, nuance, and comprehension exercises have to give you.
Not sure where you stand? See what each CEFR level means in practice →
What are the exercise types?
Seventeen in all: voice tasks, Make Yourself Understood, What Would You Say?, In Your Own Words, listening comprehension (dialogue and monologue), cultural nuance, grammar exercises, pronunciation and speech, fill-in-the-blank, sentence reconstruction, error correction, word placement, reverse translation, minimal pairs, Catch the words (tap the words you hear), flashcards, and multiple choice. The first eight are Premium and the rest are free. The Premium ones — speaking, live conversation, comprehension and nuance — are where the real progress happens.
How long until I can hold an actual conversation?
It depends on the language and how often you practice. With fifteen minutes a day, most learners notice a real difference within a few months. Not a week — anyone telling you that is selling something.
What languages are supported?
40+ languages including Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Russian, and more — in either direction. Right-to-left languages like Arabic, Persian, and Hebrew are fully supported.
Is the content AI-generated?
Yes, and that is the point. A fixed curriculum gives everyone the same lesson tree, the same topics, the same examples. Generation means your scenarios are built around your life: your job, your hobbies, the conversation you actually have to have next week, at your exact level, in any pair of 40+ languages. The images are AI-generated too, one for every phrase, and the voices are synthesized to native quality, so you learn from a scene, not a word list. Your conversation partner answers in character, judges whether you reached your goal, and tells you what to say better next time, at any hour, for as long as you want to practice. Difficulty follows what you actually retain instead of a syllabus. The content is new every session, so you never run out, and it respects the dialect you chose, so Egyptian Arabic sounds Egyptian. Speech recognition can still mishear you now and then; the feedback is a signal, not a verdict.
Is it free?
Yes, to start. The free version covers the core practice loop: scenarios built around your topics, the core exercises and spaced repetition, with a limited number of new scenarios each week. Premium unlocks every speaking and comprehension exercise — pronunciation, voice tasks, Make Yourself Understood, What Would You Say?, In Your Own Words, listening comprehension, cultural nuance and grammar exercises — plus many more new scenarios. You can try all of it free during the trial, no credit card needed.
How do I get the app?
Viglot is out now on iOS and Android — download it from the App Store or Google Play, sign up in the app, and you’re ready to go.
Start free. Go Premium when you’re ready to speak.
The free version gives you the core practice loop. Premium adds every speaking and comprehension exercise, the ones that turn words you recognize into words you can use.
Free
- Scenarios built around your topics, with an image and a native voice for every phrase
- The core exercises: flashcards, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, sentence reconstruction, error correction, word placement, reverse translation, minimal pairs and catch the words
- Spaced repetition that brings every word back before you forget it
- A limited number of new scenarios each week
Premium
Everything in Free, plus:
- Voice Tasks and Make Yourself Understood: spoken conversations with a goal and an honest verdict
- Pronunciation practice and What Would You Say?, with feedback on what you actually said
- Listening comprehension, cultural nuance, grammar exercises and In Your Own Words
- Many more new scenarios every week
Not sure yet? Try every Premium exercise free during the trial, no credit card needed.
You know more than you can say. Time to start saying it.
Practice the conversations from your own life, out loud and at your level, in 40+ languages.
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