English with Lewis
Stop playing, start speaking. The "Anti-Duolingo".
221 followers
Stop playing, start speaking. The "Anti-Duolingo".
221 followers
The Green Owl lied to you. Your boss doesn't care about your 200-day streak. You’ve spent months chasing XP and dopamine loops, but you still freeze up when a human speaks. That’s because you’re playing a system, not learning a language. Meet the first English app that truly cares about your progress. No dopamine hacking. No "The apple is red." Just immersive conversations with Lewis that teach you how to survive interviews, dates, and real life.
Hi Product Hunt! 👋
I’m Eric, the dev who built this.
Let’s be honest: language apps have turned into Candy Crush. You maintain a 300-day streak, you collect gems, you climb leagues..... but you freeze when you actually have to speak in a high-pressure situation.
The "Intermediate Plateau" is real. Most PH users can read this comment perfectly. You know the grammar. You watch Netflix. But can you handle a boardroom negotiation? Can you joke with a native speaker? That’s where the "Green Owl" stops working.
I partnered with Lewis, an English teacher with 1.5M followers, to build the bridge from "Learning" to "Fluency".
We didn't kill gamification (streaks keep you consistent!), but we stopped prioritizing dopamine over actual progress.
Forget "The apple is red". 🍎🚫 We're building a full immersion engine:
🎙️ Interactive Roleplays: Practice real-world scenarios (Job Interviews, Socializing) with Lewis clone that pushes you to speak.
📚 Instant Dictionary: Tap any word/expression during the conversation to save it instantly.
🧠 Smart Flashcards: Turn words you discover in chats into long-term memory via our flashcards system.
🎁 Since you guys read until here, take 50% OFF your first month + a 3 day free trial. Here's the Link: https://apps.apple.com/redeem?ctx=offercodes&id=6755333340&code=EARLYBIRD
Ask me anything about the code, the Apple approval nightmare, or the Creator partnership model. 👇
Cheers ✌️
Eric
@ericdjav Bravo Eric !
@clem_mgn merci Clément :)
@ericdjav Plein de force et de bonnes vibes pour le lancement de "English with Lewis" !
@pchevallot Un grand merci à vous Pascal !
@ericdjav very nice idea!
@new_user___36420254faaa35dc687e8d5 thanks very much!
@ericdjav Congrats on the launch, Éric! 🇫🇷
You’ve hit the nail on the head: the 'Candy Crush' era of language apps has reached its limits. We’ve all been there—maintaining streaks but still struggling in real-world professional situations. Your agile approach with Clounge feels incredibly smart and perfectly timed for today's needs.
I’m particularly interested in your partnership model with Lewis. In my line of work (local marketing), I often find it challenging to effectively bake specialized expert knowledge into the technical tools I develop. I’d love to hear about your process: how did you translate his pedagogical 'soul' into the app’s logic without losing that human touch?
Kudos for shipping this so fast and with such a clear vision. You have my full support! 🔥
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@ericdjav please make the same for learning French! :)
@tetianai haha could be great too
Really proud to have launched the application and partnered with Eric! As an experienced English Teacher I see the same problems every day, students knowing the grammar rules and understanding English but not being able to practise it regularly, work on pronunciation and actually learn to use new words and phrases. I believe English with Lewis will go a long way to solving that major problem.
My daily content already goes a long way to making learning intermediate and advanced English fun, engaging and addictive but now the application will be an added accessory to finally break the intermediate plateau and feel fluent in English in 2026 and many years to come...fingers crossed and I look forward to hearing what the community on PH thinks :)
Cheers again to Eric for making this little dream come true!
@lewis_rollinson Cheers Lewis! 🍻 It’s been a crazy sprint! I'm super happy to see your teaching method finally come to life in an app. Let’s do this! ✌️
I quit Duolingo because of "the horse is eating the soup"
there is clearly a need!
@jean_luc_momprive4 haha we all have trauma with some simple phrases like that
This is such a great initiative Eric 🙌 I feel you when you say that we have been tricked into thinking we’ve learned a language when after years of practicing we fall short in front of real conversation 🤦♂️ That’s why I found learning with Lewis so real and much more engaging and relevant 👍 Specially liked the instant dictionary and smart flashcards really handy and to the point 💪
@m_vela Thanks very much for your support Manuel 🔥 I felt so frustrated when learning Italian with Duolinguo, like "el ragazzo", "la raggaza".. still a trauma for me until now 😅
Nice angle vs Duolingo, curious about retention & pedagogy
@abdelmalek_beckert Thanks. The idea is to incentivize daily speaking. Then easily converting new words toward repetition with enabling to easily add them to the dictionary and train with smart flashcards. What do you think about that?
as a bachelor in foreign language teaching, I can say it looks like a real gem in a world of 'achievement' over the real result. duolingo is not bad, but sometimes it's definitely not good enough, especially to build fluency and confidence. do you only have Lewis as a chat option? or so you guys plan to add more? wish you all the luck!
@yellow_yetti Thanks for your feedback Vera!
For now I don't think we'll implement another voice, but who knows? :)
A perfect app to learn languages
@eliana_jordan Thank you Eliana 🙏