Learning a Language: Speaking It, and Being Corrected
Make a language your topic and you get a tutor that speaks only that language, understands you whatever language you reply in, and corrects your mistakes as you go. Use the same tutor on any other subject and it will not correct your grammar — that is deliberate, and this page explains both halves.
It Will Not Switch Back, Even If You Do
The tutor answers only in the language your topic is set to. If you get stuck and say something in your own language, it understands you perfectly well and answers in the target language anyway. It does not mirror you, it does not drift into a second language halfway through, and if you ask it outright to switch it will say in one short sentence that this session is in that language and carry straight on. What you get is immersion that does not quietly collapse the first time it gets hard.
It Corrects You, When the Language Is the Subject
If your topic is the language itself — its grammar, its vocabulary, how it is actually used — then how you speak is part of the material, so mistakes get corrected rather than politely ignored.
- One correction at a time — the error that most changes your meaning, not every slip. Being corrected on everything is how people stop talking.
- You hear the right form, then the reason — it says the corrected sentence out loud and gives the rule behind it in a sentence, rather than delivering a lesson.
- Repeat mistakes get named as patterns — if the same error keeps coming back, it tells you what the underlying rule is, because a mistake you never hear named is one you keep making.
- Corrections come in the language you are learning, not in yours. That follows the same rule as everything else it says.
Setting It Up
Create a topic about the language and set the topic's content language to the language you are learning. That one setting is what decides everything afterwards — the explanations, the quizzes, the spoken conversation and any podcast episode. A topic called "Spanish: the past tenses" with its content language set to Spanish gives you a Spanish-speaking grammar tutor; the same topic left in English gives you a tutor explaining Spanish grammar in English, which is a different and sometimes useful thing.
On Any Other Subject, It Leaves Your Grammar Alone
This is the other half, and it is intentional. If you are talking about biology in your second language, it will not correct your grammar — it answers what you meant. Nobody studying photosynthesis wants their prepositions marked. So if you want correction, make the language the subject; if you want to practise a language while learning something else, you get the practice without the pedantry.
What This Is Not
It is not a language course. There is no beginner-to-fluent curriculum, no levels, no vocabulary scheduler and no scenario library of role-plays to work through. There is also no pronunciation score — it is listening to you, not marking you, and it will only mention how you said something when it made a word genuinely ambiguous. What it is: an open-ended conversation in the language, about whatever you decided the topic is, that corrects you and will not let you retreat into your own language.