open nowВалентина
Grandmother-in-law · retired librarian
Speak it out loud, every day
You can read it.
Now say something.
Eight minutes a day on the phone with someone who remembers you. Валентина Сергеевна is 78, a retired librarian, and slightly deaf. She asks about your dog. She has never once given you a score.
First week free · one 8-minute session a day · no streak to break · iOS app, not a browser chat · coming soon
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Валентина Сергеевна
78 · Ярославль · retired librarian
«Ну наконе́ц-то ты позвони́л. Ты говори́л, что соба́ка пропа́ла — нашла́сь?»
your mic is open
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The wall
Two years of apps. Still silent in the room.
You know the grammar. Then someone asks you something across a table and nothing comes out — you have never had to answer in real time, with a real person waiting.
What's missing is a low-stakes person who is always free. So we built one, and gave her a personality, a memory, and a bad ear.
Who you'll meet
A whole family, opening one at a time as you get better.
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Everyone has a face
Маша leans in while you're still finding the word.
Every character is animated, and every turn carries an expression — they lean in when they didn't catch you, soften when you get there, laugh when you're funny by accident. That's the difference between a voice and a person.
Built in Rive · 60 fps · eyes, mouth, breath
IdleМаша
Waiting, breathing, blinking. She never freezes between turns.
How a session goes
Eight minutes, four beats, no homework.
01
She opens
She calls out something from last time — the dog, the cat, your unreliable neighbour. No blank page.
02
You talk
Mic open the whole time. Fumble, and she asks you to say it again — she genuinely didn't catch it.
03
She tells you
Three patterns, ranked by what got in the way of being understood — plus what you steered around.
04
Tomorrow
Same scene, one notch harder — the cat's ill, and she wants it in the tense you avoided today.
The one real decision
Your mic never closes.
No button to hold before you're allowed to speak. Interrupt her and she stops. Say пра́вда? mid-story and she hears it and carries on.
mic open
What we left out
No streak. No score. Nothing to lose.
A streak turns a missed Tuesday into failure. A score turns a conversation into a test. You get one honest number instead: how often she understood you.
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Afterwards
Three things worth fixing. Not thirty.
She understood you 11 of 14.
01
Мы иска́ли, not мы и́щем.
Past narration came up four times. Twice she had to ask what you meant.
02
в гараже́, not в гара́ж.
Location after в takes the prepositional.
03
Stress: нашла́сь, not на́шлась.
Recurred across three turns. She worked it out from context.
Price
$12 a month.
One session a day, every day — the pedagogically correct amount, not a paywall trick. About a fifth of one hour with a tutor.
Cancel in two taps · iOS first, Android later this year · coming soon
Honest limits
She is not a tutor.
No grammar explanations on demand. If you want the rules taught, get a textbook — then come here to use them.
She is software.
She will occasionally say something a real 78-year-old librarian never would. Tell us when she does.
One language at a time.
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