Practise speaking Japanese out loud
Free Japanese conversation practice with an AI partner that responds to what you actually say. No subscription, no paywall, and no payment details.
Ordering food, start to finish
A real conversation in the app: order a coffee, order something to eat, ask for the bill. The objectives tick off as you say them.
Turn sound on to hear it.
The bit that trips people up: choosing a politeness level in real time
Japanese makes you encode your relationship to the listener in the grammar itself. Plain, polite, humble, honorific — every sentence picks one, and picking wrong is not a small error. Textbooks teach the forms; only speaking teaches you to select one while also trying to remember the word for 'receipt'.
Conversations you can practise in Japanese
- Ordering at a restaurant and asking what is recommended
- Asking for directions at a station and understanding the answer
- Introducing yourself at work
- Apologising properly when you have inconvenienced someone
- Checking into a hotel and asking about luggage storage
Not on the list? Describe the situation and ConvoLive builds it.
Situations
- How to question a charge on the bill, in Japanese
- How to return something without a receipt, in Japanese
- How to get rebooked after a cancelled flight, in Japanese
- How to raise a noise problem with a neighbour, in Japanese
- How to decline an invitation politely, in Japanese
- How to say the haircut is going wrong, in Japanese
- How to tell a restaurant about a food allergy, in Japanese
- How to report a theft to the police, in Japanese
- How to describe a symptom at the pharmacy, in Japanese
- How to describe something when you don't know the word, in Japanese
- Situations →
Three phrases worth being able to say
Every learner needs these before they need anything clever.
- すみません、もう一度お願いします
- Sorry, one more time please
- おすすめは何ですか
- What do you recommend?
- 日本語がまだ下手です
- My Japanese is still poor
Japanese questions people ask
- Do I need to read kana or kanji to use ConvoLive?
- You will get the most out of it if you can read hiragana and katakana. Kanji is not a barrier: it carries furigana above it, so everything on screen is readable. Every line also has a translation you can reveal, and you can tap a word to see what it means.
- Is Japanese realistic for a beginner to speak?
- Speaking is often the easier half. Japanese pronunciation is far kinder to English speakers than its writing system is, and bounded scenarios let you talk long before you can read a newspaper.