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Real-time voice conversations
Full-duplex sessions over Gemini Live. No typing, no multiple choice, no scripts. You talk, the coach talks back — like a tutor sitting next to you.
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Speak like a local.
Not a textbook.
LocalLingo is the AI voice coach that teaches real city slang, accents, and dialects. 459 cities. 110 languages. Zero multiple choice.
4.8 avg rating15 min free — no cardCancel anytime
¿Che, todo bien?
めっちゃ ええやん
Wesh, ça va ?
Buenos Aires✦Rio de Janeiro✦Paris✦Osaka✦Mexico City✦Bangkok✦Taipei✦Barcelona✦Montreal✦Madrid✦Rome✦Lisbon✦Tokyo✦Seoul✦Berlin✦Amsterdam✦Istanbul✦Cairo✦Lagos✦Marrakech✦Hanoi✦Jakarta✦São Paulo✦Lima✦Bogotá✦Athens✦Buenos Aires✦Rio de Janeiro✦Paris✦Osaka✦Mexico City✦Bangkok✦Taipei✦Barcelona✦Montreal✦Madrid✦Rome✦Lisbon✦Tokyo✦Seoul✦Berlin✦Amsterdam✦Istanbul✦Cairo✦Lagos✦Marrakech✦Hanoi✦Jakarta✦São Paulo✦Lima✦Bogotá✦Athens✦
The problem
You studied the language. You still sound like a tourist.
Textbooks teach a language that nobody actually speaks. Apps drill you on multiple-choice grammar. By the time you land, the cabbie's Rioplatense, Kansai, or Carioca leaves you nodding politely.
LocalLingo flips it. You talk to a coach tuned to the city you care about. They speak the way locals speak — slang, swallowed syllables, dropped vowels, all of it. You practice the conversation you'll actually have tomorrow.
Features
A language tutor in your pocket. Without the multiple choice.
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Precision dialect engine
459 cities, each with a unique linguistic profile. Phonetic locks, slang overrides, grammar rules. Buenos Aires sounds like Buenos Aires, not generic Spanish.
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Durable phrase cards
Bookmark anything you hear. Each card includes the phrase, phonetics, literal and contextual translation, and a cultural breakdown. Yours forever.
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Travel-ready scenarios
Roleplay ordering coffee, haggling at a market, checking into a hotel, asking for directions. Real situations, real recovery from real mistakes.
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Accent & emotion preservation
The Pro coach mirrors your tone, not just your words. Sound like yourself in another language — confident, warm, you.
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Privacy by default
Audio streams in memory only. Never written to disk, never cached, never sold. End-to-end encrypted to Gemini.
How it works
From install to fluent-sounding in four steps.
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Pick your city
Buenos Aires, Osaka, Paris, Rio — or any of 455 more. Each is tuned to its own dialect.
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Press talk
No typing. No multiple choice. Just speak. The coach listens and answers in real time.
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Save what sticks
Bookmark slang and phrases. Get phonetics, translation, and cultural context on every card.
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Land and use it
Walk into the market, the bar, the taxi — and sound like you've been there before.
Inside the app
Made for the moment you actually open it.
Pricing
Cheaper than one bad phrasebook.
Start with 15 minutes free — no credit card. Upgrade for unlimited daily sessions.
Weekly Pass
$1.99/ week
Perfect for a weekend trip.
- Unlimited voice sessions
- All 459 cities
- Unlimited phrase cards
- Cancel anytime
Best value
Monthly Pass
$6.99/ month
Best value. For learners, expats, and the curious.
- Everything in Weekly
- Accent & emotion preservation
- Offline phrase cards
- Priority coach response time
Billed through Google Play. Cancel anytime from your subscription settings.
From travelers
Built for the trip you're actually taking.
"Used it for 3 days before flying to Buenos Aires. Cab driver asked where in Argentina I was from."
"I've tried Duolingo, Babbel, Pimsleur. This is the first one I actually keep open."
"Finally, an AI that doesn't sound like a robot reading a textbook. My Kansai is unrecognizable now."
- What is LocalLingo? +
- LocalLingo is an AI-powered voice coach for language learners and travelers. Instead of teaching textbook grammar, it trains you to speak the actual slang, accent, and rhythm of a specific city — Buenos Aires Rioplatense, Osaka Kansai, Parisian French, Carioca Portuguese, and 455 more.
- How is it different from Duolingo or Babbel? +
- Duolingo teaches you to tap multiple-choice answers. LocalLingo makes you talk. Real-time, full-duplex voice conversations with a city-specific AI coach powered by Google Gemini Live. No typing, no streaks, no owl — just speaking practice tuned to the dialect you actually need.
- Which cities and languages are supported? +
- 459 cities across 110 languages and 196 countries. Each city has its own coach with a dedicated prompt profile covering local slang, phonetic habits, and grammar quirks — so Rio de Janeiro doesn't sound like Lisbon, and Mexico City doesn't sound like Madrid.
- How does the AI voice coach work? +
- Your microphone streams raw PCM audio over a low-latency WebSocket to Google Gemini's Multimodal Live API. The coach hears your pronunciation, responds out loud in the local dialect, and corrects you in real time. Audio is processed in memory only — never stored on disk.
- Is there a free trial? +
- Yes. You get 15 minutes of free AI voice coaching with no credit card. After that, the Pro plan unlocks unlimited daily sessions, offline phrase cards, and accent-preserving translation.
- How much does LocalLingo cost? +
- Weekly Pass is $1.99/week. Monthly Pass is $6.99/month (best value). Both billed through Google Play, cancel anytime, with built-in grace periods if your payment fails.
- Is my voice data private? +
- Yes. Voice is captured as transient PCM buffers and streamed directly to Google Gemini over an encrypted WebSocket. Nothing is written to disk, cached, or shared with third parties.
- Does it work offline? +
- Live voice coaching needs a connection. Saved phrase cards — with phonetics, translation, cultural context and breakdowns — are available offline once synced.
Your next trip starts on your phone.
15 minutes free. No credit card. Speak like a local before you board.