Your first real exchange — with the people who actually matter to you, not a chatbot. Answer a short questionnaire about you: your hometown, your work, your family, the things you actually do. We turn it into the phrases you’re very likely to use in conversations. Nothing generic, only personalised sentences.
From $12, one-time. 250 cards, one size — every limit is on this page. Flashcards and audio playlists, both included. No subscription, no streak.
I grew up in a small town by the sea, but I've lived here for three years now.
海沿いの小さな町で育ったんですが、ここに住んで三年になります。
I grew up in a small town by the sea, but I've lived here for three years now.
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These phrases are other people’s. Yours come from your own questionnaire.
Months on the app, a streak you were almost proud of — then you sat through a dinner with the very people you wanted to talk to, and barely said a word. The effort was real. You just never learned the words for your own life, the ones that could get you going.
“The woman had a suitcase.” You can translate that. But “I grew up near the coast, I have two kids, I moved here last year” — the things you’re actually asked, every single time — somehow never came up. Generic lessons were built for everyone, so for no one in particular.
You know more than you can say out loud. The moment someone turns to you, the words vanish and you smile and nod instead. That gap isn’t a lack of effort. You just never drilled the one thing every first conversation needs: how to talk about yourself.
Native language in, target language out — any of 14 languages, in any direction. No forced detour through English to reach the people who matter to you.
196 possible directions. English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi.
Mostly a few taps and short answers — where you grew up, your job, your family, your daily routine. Nothing to write out. Those answers are the raw material for every phrase, so the whole deck comes out about your life, not a stranger’s.
The questionnaire walks through your life, one simple question at a time. Every phrase is generated from your answers — your routine, your people, your life.
Your deck is generated from what you told us — the lines about your life and your first conversations. There’s no scraping and no generic list behind it; it’s personal by construction.
A ready-to-import .apkg file plus audio playlists, with a plain guide — nothing to configure. Study the flashcards so the words stick, or play the audio in the car, on a walk, doing the dishes. Either way, these are the phrases that come up every time you meet someone new.
“I grew up near the coast, but I’ve lived here three years.” “I’m a nurse.” “My partner’s Spanish — that’s actually why I’m learning.” “We cook a big meal together on Sundays.” Plus the everyday situations you choose: a restaurant, the market, a dinner at someone’s place.
First Conversation won’t teach you grammar or hold a conversation with you. It does one thing: the exact phrases about your life and your first conversations, generated from your own answers — so nothing you learn is wasted, and every line is one you’ll reuse with every new person. Run it next to a class or an app, or on its own.
A deck of personal phrases — each one a flashcard and an audio clip. Import it into Anki so the words stick, or just play the audio hands-free. No video library, no dashboard to learn: only your phrases, ready to use.
You can. This doesn’t sell you access to the language: it sells you the hours you won’t spend writing out phrases, hunting for audio, and guessing what to say about yourself. And what you get back isn’t a generic phrasebook — it’s the lines about your life specifically. The free route works. It just costs you time you’ve probably already spent too much of.
No. A phrasebook gives everyone the same sentences. This is generated from your own answers, so it’s about your hometown, your job, your family — the things you’ll personally be asked and personally say. A phrasebook teaches you “I have two brothers.” This teaches you the version that’s actually true for you.
Then you already know the tool wasn’t the problem: it never taught you to speak about yourself in real time. These are the exact first-conversation phrases, the ones that repeat with every new person. You practice what you’ll actually use, not what looks tidy in a lesson. The method was broken, not you.
No “fluent in a month,” no secret hack. The price, the size, and the limits are on this page in plain sight, there’s a free working sample, and a section below tells you who this isn’t for. That’s the opposite of how dream-sellers operate.
Anki is a free desktop flashcard app, and its spaced repetition is what makes the words actually stick. You don’t need any experience: the deck imports in a couple of minutes with nothing to configure, and a guide is included. Prefer to skip it entirely? Use the audio playlists — in the car, on a walk, doing the dishes.
You want a game with points, hearts, and a daily counter. This has none of that — only what you can say.
You want to deep-dive a topic you love and understand native content without subtitles. That’s the Immersion Deck — built from real native videos on your subject, with a starter video library to watch in your dashboard.
You have a job, a move, or a deadline in a specific field. That’s the Career Deck — the exact vocabulary of the role you’re heading into.
You want a guaranteed fluency date. We don’t sell one. We sell the phrases for your first conversations; the consistency is yours.
Every deck includes the .apkg file, audio playlists, and an import guide.
14, in any direction: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Czech, Russian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Hindi. Your native language is a setting, so you don’t have to learn through English to talk to the people you’re learning for.
250 cards, one size. The phrases for talking about yourself, small talk, and the opening minutes of a new encounter.
Anki is a free desktop flashcard app — widely used, and its built-in spaced repetition is what makes the words actually stick. You don’t need any experience: the deck imports in a couple of minutes with a plain guide, nothing to configure. And if you’d rather not use it at all, the same deck comes as audio playlists you can play with nothing installed.
No. First Conversation is built from your answers, not from native content, so it ships as the deck plus audio playlists and an import guide. If you want a starter video library on a topic you love, that’s the Immersion Deck.
That depends on you, and anyone who gives you a number is guessing. What we can say: because these phrases repeat in every first conversation, you can start using them right away. We sell sustainability, not speed.
Yes. There’s no forced lesson order and no path you’re meant to stay on. Study what you need, when you need it.
Flip a few real cards first, free and in your language, to see how a finished card looks. Your own phrases come from your answers.
Your phrases about your own life and your first conversations, in your language pair, ready within minutes. One-time, $12 — no subscription, no streak.