Speeku
Züritüütsch is the dialect people here actually speak, and almost nobody teaches. Short lessons that get you listening and talking from day one. Backed by science.
The course
Not a demo and not a word list. 94 lessons that start at Grüezi and end with you holding a conversation.
94lessonsstart to a conversation
921exercises15 different kinds
178words you will knowtaught, then brought back
2,621dictionary entrieson the phone, not a serverVariety
Five recalls of the same kind is one skill practised five times. So a word comes back differently every time: picked from a picture, tapped in a pair, built out of chips, conjugated across a whole table, and finally said out loud into the microphone.
Pick the word
Speaking
Speeku turns the word it asked for into the sounds it is made of, listens to what you actually said, and compares the two. On the device, with the radio off. There is no server to send your voice to, because there is no server.
Say it out loud
The dictionary
Every entry carries its gloss, its article, its plural and the reason it takes that plural, its forms, and a sentence somebody would actually say. Search finds a word in the shape you met it in.
Then the table you just read comes back as a drill you have to fill in yourself. Same table twice: once to read, once to earn.
EVERY ENTRYPronunciation
FOR 634 WORDSEvery form
1,413 OF THEMUsed in a sentence
Flashcards
Every word a lesson teaches you turns into a card. Run a deck whenever you have a minute, on the tram or in a queue, and the app deals you the ones you are closest to forgetting first.
You never have to plan a review or build a deck. It is already there, and it already knows which words are slipping.
Your language
The whole app speaks 16 languages: every instruction, every gloss, and every translation inside every lesson.
English
Bosanski
Deutsch
Español
Français
Hrvatski
Italiano
Kurdî
Português (Brasileiro)
Shqip
Türkçe
Македонски
Русский
Српски
Українська
ትግርኛPrivate by design
Not “we don’t sell your data.” Speeku cannot send it anywhere. The lessons, the dictionary and the speech checking all run on your phone. That is why it works at 30,000 feet, in a tunnel, and on a mountain with no signal. The Android build does not request internet permission at all, and you can check that in the Play listing before you install.
Who it’s for
Swiss German is what people actually speak here, and almost nobody teaches it.
Whether you have never opened a German book or you finished the course years ago, this starts where you are: from Grüezi, in the dialect the tram, the bakery and the table next to you are using. You do not need to be good at it. You need to be understood, and to understand what comes back.
Our method
Three new words at a time, and a lesson is not finished with one until you have climbed all four rungs: read it, hear it, say it, and finally recall it with nothing in front of you. Every rung is harder than the last, and the order is not an accident.
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4Completely. The lessons, the dictionary and the speech checking all run on your phone. The Android app does not even request internet permission. It works on a plane, in a tunnel, and on a mountain with no signal.
Züritüütsch: the Zürich dialect, as it is spoken. Not High German written out with Swiss spelling, and not a machine reading standard German with an accent.
From the first lesson, and in 50 of the 94. The app listens and checks whether you said the right word, on the device. Nothing is recorded, uploaded or kept.
No, and it will not pretend to. It confirms that you said the right word. Judging how native you sound is not something it can do honestly, so it does not claim to.
No. There is no sign-up and no password. Your progress is stored on your phone, which is also the only place it could be.
94 lessons and 178 words, practised across 921 exercises in 15 different kinds, plus a 2,621-entry dictionary you can search offline.
16, including English, Bosanski, Deutsch, Español, Français. You pick yours before the first lesson, and it changes the lessons too.
94 lessons. No account, no subscription, no connection needed.
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