How Dubashi Learn works

Learning through your mother tongue

Most language apps teach through English. Dubashi Learn explains everything in your own language, so a Telugu speaker learns Tamil through Telugu, and a Brazilian learns English through Portuguese.

You practise with Sara, the AI language coach in Dubashi Learn. Sara is an AI, not a person, and the app tells you so.

The app teaches listening and speaking, not reading. Every line in the new language shows how it sounds, written in your own script, with its meaning and audio.

What each feature does

• Lessons

  A ten-mission course of everyday situations: short dialogues, sentence patterns you say out loud, and notes that compare your language with the new one. Lessons use recorded audio.

• Foundations

  Short themes that explain how your language maps to the new one, such as difficult sounds and word order, with practice sentences.

• Sara Shadowing

  A recorded conversation you speak along with, line by line. Your phone's own speech recogniser checks each line.

• Sara Role Play

  A lesson's scene as a free conversation. Sara plays the other person, and you tap to speak. There is no script and no grade; you lead, and Sara follows. Her replies appear on screen and in her voice.

• Sara Talk

  The same kind of scene, hands-free: you speak and listen without tapping, and Sara hears when you start and stop. You can also show the conversation as text.

• Sara Coach

  Sara as your tutor, not a character. Short spoken activities: Say it (she says a sentence in your language, you say it in the new one), Listen and understand (the reverse), and Numbers. You can also ask her about the language or just talk.

• Your Scenes

  Describe any situation, typed or spoken, and Sara proposes a role and plays it, in Role Play or in Talk. Your scenes are saved on your phone, and you can practise them again.

• The Dialogue Prompt card

  The help card. It gives you the line to say in the new language, with its sound in your own script, its meaning and Sara's voice, and saves it to Review.

• Review

  Every Dialogue Prompt card and every line you stumbled on comes back for practice after 1, 3, 7 and then 21 days.

How Sara Role Play differs from Sara Talk

Both are conversations with Sara in a scene. In Sara Role Play you tap to speak, with text and a Help button on screen. In Sara Talk you speak hands-free, and it works without looking at the screen.

Sara Role Play, Sara Talk and Sara Coach are open to every learner. Replies in all three use messages from the same allowance; on the free plan, they use your free messages.

How help works

When you are stuck, say what you mean in your mother tongue. Sara gives you a Dialogue Prompt card with the line in the new language. This works in Sara Role Play, Sara Talk and Sara Coach.

In Sara Role Play you can also tap the Help button to get the line.

What Dubashi Learn does not do

• It does not score your pronunciation. Lessons and Shadowing check the words your phone's speech recogniser hears, not your accent.
• It does not teach reading or writing a new script.
• It has no human teachers. Sara is an AI, and she can make mistakes.
• It has no streaks, points, badges or leagues.
• There is no iPhone app yet. It runs on Android only.
• No plan is unlimited. Conversations with Sara use a monthly allowance of messages, and they need an internet connection.