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I'm going to Spain in three weeks and my Spanish is basically hola and gracias. Could you make me a little practice app for ordering coffee and food, with flashcards I can flip and a way to mark which phrases I know? I'd like to spend five minutes on it when I have a spare moment.
Building it now — a set of coffee-and-food phrases you can flip through, with a tap to mark each one as known. I'm writing the phrase list first, then the app itself. Give me a few minutes and it'll show up right here in the thread.
Your Spanish app is building now — it'll land right here in the thread in a moment.
What's in it: 30 phrases for cafés and restaurants, split into Coffee and Food. There's a flashcard deck you tap to flip — Spanish on the front, English plus a rough pronunciation guide on the back, with a small note on when to use it. Under each card, two buttons: "I know this" or "Still learning." There's also an All phrases view with a tick beside every line if you'd rather scan the whole list, and filters for Still learning and Known.
Everything you tick is saved, so next time you open it the ones you know are still ticked and the progress bar picks up where you left off. Five minutes at a time is exactly the right dose — do a Coffee deck today, Food tomorrow, then run the Still learning filter until it's empty before you fly.
It's live — "Spain Trip Spanish" is right above this, ready to poke at.
30 phrases, Coffee and Food decks, tap a card to flip it: Spanish on the front, English and a rough pronunciation guide on the back, plus a line on when to actually say it. Below each card, "I know this" or "Still learning." The All phrases tab has the whole list with ticks and filters, and your progress bar sits at the top.
Everything you tick is saved, so next time you open it the ones you know are still ticked. Five minutes a day is plenty — Coffee today, Food tomorrow, then keep hitting the Still learning filter until it's empty before you fly.
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Iris is a starting point. You can customize your Nym and ask for help with other things too. Ask it to make something for you too. These example apps aren’t copied into your account.
After the first week
You don’t need to design your own lessons.
Ordering a coffee needs different phrases from finding a station. Tell your Nym where you want to use what you learn, your trip date, what you can say now and how much time you have each day. Spanish is the example here; bring another subject to the same Nym.
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Ask for a model answer when you are starting out, or try from memory first, then compare your answer with the model and go again.
Build on the last attempt.
Tell your Nym what was hard. Practise that part again, then choose the next challenge together. Ask for a practice app like Spain Trip Spanish that you can use between conversations. You can have two personal apps on Free.
Questions about Personal Teacher
Is the conversation on this page live?
It is one Iris already had. Start with your own Nym to practise together.
Is Spanish all it can teach?
Bring another subject and your Nym works out where to start with you.
Is Personal Teacher a separate product?
No. Iris gives you a starting character you can make your own. You can ask your Nym for help outside learning too; the examples here are just a few places to begin.
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