I love this app. I’m learning Italian and Spanish and have had a difficult time keeping conversation partners. Partly because it’s easy to lose interest (on both sides) and not build a connection on language exchange apps. Also, some people are more interested in flirting and being inappropriate rather than practicing a language. I paid for lessons with a teacher initially, but the cost became too much to sustain monthly. So I tried the free route for conversation practice and it wasn’t beneficial for me. Teacher AI is the perfect solution. It allows me to practice whenever I want in a safe space. I now have practice partners that never run out of things to say. I love that there are topics built in, so I don’t have to figure out what we should talk about. The AI teacher is prepared to start up a conversation about whatever I choose. When I say something incorrectly, my teacher repeats my sentence back to me, showing what I should have said. Teacher AI is a super helpful app, the developers quickly respond if there is an issue, and they are constantly improving the app. It’s an extremely valuable tool for what is provided, will help me achieve my speaking goals for much less than I’d spend hiring a teacher, and I can practice anytime and anywhere.

I’m an advanced student and have been studying Chinese for about 12 years with private teachers, apps, and pretty much everything out there. I started with TeacherAI a year ago and have waited through the hiccups and glitches. It is now my go to speaking practice partner. I can look up characters, change the speed, etc.. Compared to ChatGPT on voice, it is more stable and the speed of the speaker is steady and not like “New Yorker” speed. If you’re serious about speaking your language I highly recommend it.

This app is good overall, but a few things have honestly made me not want to use it as much. The biggest issue for me is how quickly it pressures you to respond. You only get about 5–10 seconds before the robot starts saying “Are you there?” That’s really frustrating because I need time to think. When I feel rushed, my thoughts get jumbled and my responses come out worse than they should. If I had more time, like 30 seconds to a minute, it would make a huge difference. I’d be able to think calmly and actually say what I want to say without feeling pressured.Another issue is how often it asks, “Is there something else you want to talk about?” One of the hardest parts of language learning is not always knowing what to talk about, so being asked that repeatedly doesn’t help. On top of that, there are many times when a conversation could naturally go deeper, but instead it cuts off too quickly and jumps straight to asking for a new topic. I’d much rather have more depth and follow-up questions.And when I do ask it for topic ideas, it keeps giving the same recycled suggestions over and over. I don’t want to talk about my favorite movie fifty times. I want more variety, creativity, and natural conversation flow.

What an awful experience it has been in the last year trying this app. It was insanely expensive when I initially signed up (cheaper now) and hardly worked. For many weeks and nearly months at times, the tech just didn’t work. I tried to use it on my phone before the app existed and I couldn’t log into the website or I would just be prompted that it currently wasn’t functioning. Next time I’ll just go to my ATM, withdraw a few hundred bucks and light it on fire.When the app was launched I was excited just to see functionality. But that was only an appearance. Because so many months I was locked out of conversations with responses like “I can’t give an opinion on that” and so on. Just going by normal, casual conversations I easily have with ChatGPT. And then I realized, why not just use ChatGPT instead? It can hold substantive conversations and I love that with ChatGPT I don’t need to push that pesky “send” button. I can just enjoy a conversation in Spanish while commuting to work - and never have to interface with the app throughout.Teacher AI usually (emphasis here, USUALLY) has more native sounding accents than chatGPT does. But it’s so buggy that you often never know what to expect.The straw that broke the camel’s back here was the lack of notice that my membership was closed to expiration. Imagine a service that did nothing for you suddenly showing up at your door with their hand out saying “pay me.” I just logged in, got prompted to renew my membership and, well, no thanks.