TalkBuddy - Practice speaking real conversations a few minutes a day.

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Learn a language by actually speaking it. TalkBuddy is your AI speaking partner for real conversations. -> PREPARE: Learn key phrases, hear them, say them aloud before you start. -> SPEAK: Have real out-loud conversations with an AI buddy — no judgment, no pressure. -> LEARN: After each session, TalkBuddy pulls out useful phrases from what you actually said. -> BUILD: Save phrases with pronunciation, organized by topic, into your own library. Start practice now!

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Hey Product Hunt! šŸ‘‹ I'm Captain, maker of TalkBuddy. I know — there are a hundred language apps out there. I tried most of them. And I kept hitting the same wall: I'd finish lesson after lesson, feel like I was "learning," then completely freeze the moment I had to actually say something to a real person. Turns out memorizing a language and speaking one are two different skills — and almost nothing out there trains the second. So I built TalkBuddy around one idea: you get better at speaking by speaking, not by tapping the right answer in a quiz. Here's how a session works today: šŸ—£ļø Prepare — a quick warm-up with a few useful phrases, so they're already familiar šŸŽ™ļø Speak — a real, out-loud conversation with an AI buddy about everyday stuff, no multiple choice šŸ“ Learn — afterwards it pulls out the phrases you actually used, not random vocab šŸ“š Build — those get saved into your own library, with pronunciation, organized by topic No judgment, no pressure, no streak guilt-tripping you at midnight. Just a few minutes of real talking a day. But this is just v1 — the foundation. Where I'm taking it: a buddy that genuinely remembers you. Every learner gets their own memory — it holds onto the words you struggled with, the topics you care about, the way you actually talk — and quietly shapes future conversations around that. Not a one-size-fits-all course, but a companion that grows with you the more you speak. More languages, more levels from first words to real fluency, and conversations that feel less like an app and more like talking to a patient friend who's known you for years. I'm launching early on purpose — I want the people who use it to help shape where it goes. 🌐 Website: šŸ“± iOS: I'll be here all day. Genuinely curious: what's stopped you from learning and practicing speaking that language in the past? That answer is basically my roadmap šŸ™Œ