Language Apps Teach Vocabulary but Not Conversational Fluency
A founder describes trying many language-learning apps that taught words but left them unable to hold a real conversation, and built a scheduled video-exchange platform as the fix. The post is framed as a product launch and asks the community for their own sticking points, so it offers a genuine but anecdotal signal on a widely recognized language-app limitation.
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