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The first language app built on cognitive science,
not gamified translation.
Amiora, a blend of ami (French, friend) and ora (Latin, to speak). A friendly, conversational experience that moves words from passive recognition into active speech.
The problem
Most language apps are leaky buckets.
Users spend hundreds of days clicking multiple-choice questions, then freeze the moment they're dropped into a real conversation. Existing apps build passive recognition but fail to build active retrieval. Words memorised out of context vanish a week later.
We're not building another Duolingo. We're building the retention engine the category forgot.
The science
Four research-backed principles.
Amiora is built on four of the most powerful, evidence-based principles of language acquisition and behavioural psychology, combined into one closed loop.
Comprehensible Input
Acquisition happens when learners process messages just slightly beyond their current level, the famous i + 1. Native content, calibrated to your exact proficiency.
Krashen, 1981, Input Hypothesis
Spaced Repetition
Reviewing material at expanding intervals dramatically improves long-term retention, fighting the forgetting curve at exactly the right moments.
Ebbinghaus, 1885 · Bahrick, 1993
Active Recall
Pulling information out of memory, the testing effect, beats passive restudy for long-term retention by a wide margin.
Roediger & Karpicke, 2006
Progress Architecture
Milestones and streaks, used carefully, leverage behavioural psychology to sustain motivation and build consistent daily engagement.
Hamari, Koivisto & Sarsa, 2014
The product
A closed loop, not four separate apps.
The magic isn't the tabs. It's that they feed each other. A word you discover in a video shows up in your review deck, and again in tonight's roleplay with your AI tutor.
Watch
Comprehensible input
An endless, personalised feed of native video, vlogs, clips, scenes, at exactly your level. Tap any word and it lands in your review deck with the full sentence.
Words
Spaced repetition
A frictionless daily review of the exact clips and sentences you tapped. The SRS algorithm surfaces them right when your brain is about to forget.
Speak
Active recall
A voice-first AI tutor runs dynamic roleplays, and actively prompts you to use the vocabulary you just reviewed. Passive becomes active.
Progress
Progress architecture
Milestones and curated achievements keep the habit alive. Foundational modules like the Top 100 Most Common Words build your baseline fluency.
When a user discovers a word in a video, reviews it perfectly three days later, and then uses it in conversation,
they're no longer playing a game. They're genuinely acquiring a language.
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