Practice a real exchange.
Work through authored conversations with a partner’s lines and your replies. Choose an answer, type, or speak. Replay the partner and use translation support when you need it.
Speaking & conversations
Practice speaking.
Listen, then reply.
Turn words you recognize into words you can say. Practice guided exchanges, repeat a phrase, and try a reply with as much support as you need.
- On device speech recognition
- Normal and slow audio
- Guided conversations
329
Authored conversations in the Spanish course
2
Playback speeds, normal and slow, both adjustable
0
Recordings of your voice saved or sent on iPhone and iPad
Try a real Loquus conversation
Checking in, in Spanish.
This exchange comes straight from the first Spanish lessons. Listen to your partner, then choose a reply. Different replies lead to different answers, just like in the app.
Checking in Someone checks in on you, you respond honestly, receive an appropriate reply, and close politely.
Hola. ¿Estás bien?
Hi. Are you well?
Choose your reply
¡Qué bien!
That's great!
Choose your reply
Entiendo. Nos vemos pronto, cuídate.
I understand. See you soon; take care.
Choose your reply
Conversation complete. Try another reply and see where it goes.
You
That was one exchange from the first lessons. The Spanish course has 329 authored conversations like it.
Get Loquus freeAudio uses the voices in your browser. In the app, you choose from the voices installed on your device.
Take a look inside
Say it, hear it, build it.
Real screens from the app, from your first spoken word to a listening game.
Speak from the first lesson.
Right after a new word, the lesson asks you to say it out loud, right after the voice. This is called shadowing. Here it is in Korean, but every course does it from day one.
- In every course, from lesson one
- Hear it again, or slowly
- Match the rhythm, not just the sounds
Say it, then see what the app heard.
Tap the microphone and say a word or phrase you have learned. Loquus checks the words it recognized against the exercise, so you can retry or move on to another word.
- Words and phrases you already learned
- Retry as often as you like
- It checks words, never your accent
Choose the voice you learn with.
Speaking and Voice sit side by side in the Practice tab. Hear your current voice, switch to another installed voice, or download a free Enhanced or Premium voice.
- Regional voices for your course
- Normal and slower playback
- Enhanced voices on iPhone and iPad
Train your ear, syllable by syllable.
Arcade games like Syllable Forge play a word, then ask you to build it from its syllables. Here the answer is gusto, taste or pleasure.
- Listen, then rebuild the word
- Part of the Listening and Sound collection
- Included with Loquus Plus
Watch it in action
From a new word to saying it aloud.
Try the words aloud.
Practice learned words in Speaking and whole phrases in supported lessons. See what the speech recognizer heard, then retry or move to another word.
Hear every detail.
Use normal or slower playback, with adjustable speeds for both. Choose from installed regional voices for your course and listen to a sample before you decide.
A little support goes a long way
Build up to
your own reply.
Conversation practice lets you work with the language you’ve learned. In the Plus Arcade’s Conversation Quest, try replying from memory, then reveal choices if you need a hand.
Learning Spanish? Supported multisyllabic words offer “Hear syllables,” so you can hear the beats and then the whole word.
Explore conversation gamesPractice in your own space.
On iOS, supported speech recognition runs on your device. It checks recognized words against the exercise. It does not grade your accent. Device and language support vary, and speech models may need an initial download. You can keep learning when speaking isn’t convenient.
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Is speaking practice free?
Yes. Speaking in the Practice tab, where you say words you’ve learned, is part of free access, and guided conversations come up in regular course lessons, more often with the Talk First practice mix. Conversation Quest in the Arcade requires Loquus Plus.
Does Loquus record my voice?
On iPhone and iPad, no. Speech recognition runs on your device, and your voice is never recorded, saved, or sent anywhere, including to Loquus. You can decline microphone access and still use the rest of the app.
Why isn’t speaking practice available?
It needs microphone access, speech recognition for your course language, and words you’ve already learned, so take a lesson first. On iPhone and iPad, recognition runs only on your device, so if it isn’t ready for your language, Loquus tells you instead of sending your voice to a server.
Why does the voice sound robotic?
Loquus speaks with the voices installed on your device, and a basic voice can sound flat. On iPhone and iPad, open Voice in the Practice tab to hear your current voice, switch to another installed voice, or follow the steps to download a free Enhanced or Premium voice.
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