안녕하세요!
Hello, I made a 5-minute-a-day language speaking practice app 'Ora', initially for my friend who's learning Korean. I am a Korean myself, but my friend gets super awkward speaking Korean with me (👁️👄👁️...) so I just made an app for her instead, and thought I should share it with everyone!
🌠 Ora (🔗 iOS App Store | 🔗 Web)
It's intended to be a safe space to forget about grammar or spelling, and to solely focus on communicating and conveying your thoughts in your target language. This app gives you a simple question everyday like "어디에 살고 계시고, 그곳의 어떤 점이 좋으신가요? (Where do you live, and what do you like about it?)"
You can tap any word you don't know to look up the meaning, and record your answer however you can, in broken grammar, mixed with your native language, listing random words... and it'll always somehow understand and ask 2 more follow up questions.
After the 3-turn conversation session, you get a feedback page showing how a native would've said what you said. Then your words get extracted into a cosmic visual lexicon called Ora. Word stars expand or fade as you proceed, and with that, your Ora grows and glows bigger over time.
Completely free for now, available in Korean 🇰🇷 and 7 other languages!
^((+ English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Japanese))
I really hope it helps all the Korean (or any other language) learners here. Thank you so much for reading, and any feedback or questions are much welcome! 🫶🏻
^(On a side note: 오라('ora') ^(is an old, commanding form of '오다(come)**', the kind of word a king would use to summon someone)) ^(😭) ^(A little dramatic for a language app, but I liked the idea of the language itself summoning you closer to it. It also means 'now' in Italian, and 'light' in Hebrew! It felt right for an app about closing the gap between what you know and what you can say.)