A week in Rome
Order, ask, apologise, and get where you're going.
ItalianYomita Tutor
Learn languages by speaking.
A language teacher you talk to, not an app you tap. It says the phrase, hears you say it back, and gives you the one thing to fix. It teaches like a person, because it listens like one.
17 languages · hundreds of classes · real-time interaction
Like a real teacher
Talk to it like a person.
Flashcards can't hear you. Tutor can. It listens to what you actually said, tells you what worked, and fixes one thing before it moves on.
"Un caffè, per favore."You, out loud, first try
You speak. Out loud.
Not a tap and not a typed answer. The only way through a lesson is to actually say the thing.
"You're at the counter of a bar in Trastevere."The tutor, in the language you already speak
It teaches in your language
The setup, the instructions, the corrections — all in words you already know. Only the phrase itself is foreign.
"The vowel in Quanto slipped."The tutor, having listened
It heard how you said it
Not whether you picked the right words — how they sounded. That is the thing only a listener can tell you.
"E un cornetto?"The tutor, playing the barista
It answers back, in character
It doesn't quiz you. It takes the other role and holds up its end of the conversation while you hold up yours.
How a lesson goes
A lesson is a conversation.
Every lesson is a short scene from real life, like ordering coffee in Rome or finding your train in Tokyo. Out loud, from start to finish.
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Pick a scene
Choose where you want to be able to talk. Each scene teaches a few phrases you'll really use.
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Hear it first
The tutor sets the scene in your language, then says the phrase slowly in the one you're learning.
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Say it back
It listens to how you said it and fixes one thing at a time. The tricky word, slowly, then the whole phrase again.
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Play the scene
Once you have the phrases, the tutor plays the waiter, the stallholder, the stranger on the platform. You answer as yourself.
Feedback
Hear what worked. See what to fix.
Good teachers don't hand you a list of mistakes. They tell you what you got right, then give you the one thing to try next.
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Praise with a reason
"The rhythm was right." "You landed the double consonant." Not "good job." You learn what worked.
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One fix at a time
It names the one word that slipped and says it slowly, then lets you try again. Trying again is part of the conversation.
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Scores on screen, never out loud
Your pronunciation score and the word to work on show up on screen. The tutor never reads numbers out, so a lesson never turns into a test.
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Explained in your language
Instructions and corrections come in the language you speak. The phrases come in the one you're learning. Never mixed in the same sentence.
Hands free
Learn while you walk, cook, or commute.
No mic button, and nothing to tap between sentences. A lesson has one control: Stop. Put your earbuds in and keep your eyes where they need to be.
Start with a trip
Learn what you'll say first.
Courses are built around places, not grammar chapters. You practise the phrases you need the day you land.
The Saturday market
Buy food, haggle a little, and leave with what you wanted.
Spanish
Three days in Tokyo
Trains, konbini, and asking for help without English.
JapaneseSeventeen languages
Learn any of them. In any of them.
Hundreds of classes in every language, graded 1 to 10. Level 1 is your first words; level 10 is business you would be nervous doing in your own language. And the list works twice over: every language here is one you can learn, and every one is a language Yomita Tutor can teach in, so the explanations always arrive in words you already have.
Levels 1–10
Hundreds of classes, built for speaking.
Hundreds of classes across seventeen languages, all of them spoken out loud — and every one sits somewhere on a ladder from 1 to 10. Each level answers a single question: how much does the other person have to adapt for the conversation to work? At level 1 they carry the whole exchange. At level 10 they do not adapt at all, and do not notice that they aren't.
Yomita Tutor focuses on levels 1 to 6 — from your first words to holding your own in a disagreement. Levels 7 to 10 describe the rest of the climb.
1–3
Borrowed language
You use language you were given.
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01
Recognition
A few memorised sounds: hello, thank you, your own name. Natural speed is noise, and the other person carries the whole exchange.
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02
Labels and frames
Nouns, numbers and a handful of sentence frames with one word swapped in. Predictable transactions work — until one of them goes off script.
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03
First real exchange
You build sentences instead of retrieving them, and you can ask someone to repeat or slow down. That one skill turns a transaction into a conversation.
4–6
Generated language
You build your own, and handle what you did not plan for.
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04
Time and reasons
What happened, what will happen, and why. Slow, rough and self-corrected, but genuinely yours rather than assembled from memorised units.
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05
Independence
A problem, a complaint, an appointment that moved — situations you never rehearsed. You could live there with nobody translating for you.
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06
Negotiation and opinion
You take a position and defend it, disagree, persuade, decline. You start hearing what is meant rather than only what is said.
7–9
Situated language
Correct is assumed. Fitting the situation is the measure.
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07
Appropriateness
The same sentence formally or casually, and you know which one the moment wants. People stop using simplified speech with you.
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08
Working proficiency
You do your job in the language on familiar ground: meetings, correspondence, explaining your work, asking for help. Accurate, and still tiring.
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09
Professional credibility
You represent your side to outsiders — clients, negotiations, bad news, disagreeing with someone senior. Your remaining mistakes no longer cost you authority.
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Transparent language
The language stops being the obstacle.
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10
Full business proficiency
Nobody accommodates you: people talking over each other, regional accents, humour, hostility, the unstructured hour afterwards. You still have an accent and gaps, and they cost you nothing.
Principles
Talk more. Stare less.
We judge Tutor by what you can say at the end of a lesson, not by how long you stayed in the app.
Made to be put down.
No streaks to protect and no guilt notifications. A short lesson is a good lesson.
Your voice skips our servers.
Audio goes straight from your phone to the model. We never receive it, so there is nothing on our side to store.
No sign-up.
No password, no profile to fill in. Pick a language and start talking.
Questions
Good to know.
Does it really feel like a human teacher?
That's the idea. You talk and it talks back. It hears the attempt you actually made, says what was right about it, and gives you one thing to change. There are no multiple-choice screens and no buttons between sentences.
Do I have to tap anything during a lesson?
No. There's no microphone button and nothing to press between sentences. The tutor speaks, you answer out loud, and it goes on from there. A lesson has one control: Stop.
How long is a lesson?
A short scene from real life, practised out loud — some take a couple of minutes, some longer.
Is it good for beginners?
Yes. The tutor says every phrase first, slowly, and explains and corrects in the language you already speak.
Do I need to look at the screen?
No. Lessons are hands free with one control, Stop. Your score and the word to work on appear on screen if you want to look.
Which languages can I learn?
Seventeen: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese. The same seventeen are the languages it can teach in, so whichever one you already speak, the setup and the corrections arrive in it.
Are there courses for all of them?
Not yet. The ready-made courses are Italian, Spanish and Japanese — A week in Rome, The Saturday market and Three days in Tokyo. The other fourteen are taught, just without a trip built around them yet.
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