AI Hanoi street characters speak real Vietnamese, listen to your voice β and, just like real locals, don't understand you when your tones are off. Order phα». Haggle at the market. Survive the small-talk interrogation.
Free pronoun + spoken-numbers cheat sheets on signup. No spam β a human in Hanoi writes these.
Every language app accepts whatever you mumble. Vietnamese has six tones β say "phα»" wrong and you've said a different word. Nobody tells you.
Real aunties say "Gì cƑ?", quote prices in shorthand, and ask if you're married yet. No app prepared you for a single second of it.
Practice the exact conversation β with a character who reacts to what your mouth actually produced β before you do it for real, with an audience.
Real scenarios with objectives β order, customize, pay. Speech recognition transcribes what you actually said, tones included.
Clean tones β the scene moves. Garbled tones β "HαΊ£? NΓ³i lαΊ‘i Δi!" β the honest feedback no app gives you.
Every word you didn't know is auto-added to a spaced-repetition deck, ranked by how common it is in real spoken Vietnamese.
Six tools most learners pay for separately β one subscription.
AI locals who talk back β and don't understand bad tones. We call it Phα», the street.
Every word you meet becomes a card, ranked by how common it really is in spoken Vietnamese.
Five-minute lessons plus the grammar and culture Duolingo skips entirely.
Hands-free listen-and-repeat lessons for your commute. You speak out loud in the gaps.
"What did that phrase mean?" β an AI tutor that answers, any time, and adds it to your deck.
Record a real exchange; we mine the native speaker's words straight into your curriculum.
No lifetime deals β the AI that listens to you costs money every session, and we'd rather stay alive than sell you a promise. Cancel anytime.
Season one is Northern (Hanoi) β the broadcast/curriculum standard, and where FluentViet is built and street-tested. A Southern toggle for Saigon & diaspora learners is on the roadmap; pick "Southern" on the waitlist so we can gauge demand honestly.
Duolingo teaches you to translate sentences and can't hear tone errors (a documented problem). FluentViet throws you into the conversations you'll actually have this week, with a character who genuinely doesn't understand bad tones β because that's the feedback the street gives you.
Your speech runs through Vietnamese speech recognition and the character reacts to what it actually heard β mangled tones come out as mangled words, and she responds like any Hanoi auntie would. It's not a lab-grade tone score (yet); it's something better: honest consequences.
One very motivated expat in Hanoi who got tired of pointing at menus, plus the AI stack he uses daily. Built in public β the failures are on the TikTok.
Founding: full refund in the first 30 days, no questions. Checkout is via Gumroad (they handle VAT/receipts).