The Falou language app now lets you stand the iPhone Duo on a table and practice speaking with an AI tutor, as if you were on a video call. The tutor appears on the top half of the screen, and the microphone sits on the half resting on the table.
Falou has a layout for each of the iPhone Duo poses, from Open for your course to Book for a lesson, while other iPhones and iPads keep the layouts they had. The update is on the App Store, and the app is free to download.
Tabletop lets you practice with an AI tutor
In Tabletop, the translation of the tutor’s words sits right below her, and you can talk without holding the phone. Your own character shows up in a corner of the call, the way you appear on a video call. Falou says the tutor reacts to what you said and asks back at your level, so you keep speaking instead of picking answers.
Open and Book get their own layouts
Falou reads the hinge and the fold, so nothing important sits on the crease. Each pose has its own job:
- Open shows your course, with one of Falou’s animated characters on one half and the next lesson and Live Practice on the other
- Book turns a lesson into two pages, with the teacher on one page and your sentence, the helpers and the microphone on the other
- In Book, the character creator fills one page and the hair, glasses and outfit options fill the other
At the end of a Book lesson, one page shows what you said out loud. Spaced reviews bring the words and sentences back before you forget them.
Falou lessons are fully spoken
Falou says every lesson is 100% spoken, and each sentence you say gets its own pronunciation score. The daily Falou Loop starts with new words picked for your level, then builds useful sentences from them, has you say those sentences out loud, and uses spaced repetition to bring the words back.
The method follows CEFR, the international standard for language levels, and Falou teaches more than 30 languages. It also has daily streaks, a word list that grows with each lesson and review lessons for your weak spots.
Moymer, the São Paulo company behind Falou, says more than 20 million students in 155 countries use it. Falou is free to download, with a subscription that starts at $9.99 a month, and it runs on iOS 15.6 or later.
