Coupling Cafe

Learn Languages From Friends & Family

  • “I have been using Coupling for 9 hours and 500 words so far, and this app has been phenomenal. As a tremendous fan of Anki...this is the one app that has it beat if you are in a relationship that can take advantage of it”

    xefjord — Creator of Xefjord's Complete Language Series, learning Taiwanese Mandarin

  • “The app that has skyrocketed my learning of the Bosnian language. It taps right into the motivation that comes from having a Bosnian spouse and child”

    Gaspard — Netherlands, learning Bosnian

  • “I love this app. Coupling has been amazing for learning my partner's language as they actually speak it... Highly recommend if you've been frustrated by cookie-cutter formal language apps!”

    Kat — DC, learning Taiwanese Mandarin

How It Works

Learn from the people in your life, 100% tailored to you

  • Picking a topic Pack to learn

    Choose a Topic You Want to Learn

    Select a word pack you want to learn

  • A partner recording a phrase for the learner

    A Friend Teaches You

    A friend fills it in with translations, audio and sentences

  • Reviewing a phrase with its word-by-word breakdown

    Master the Words

    Grow closer as your language grows!

Learn Together, Grow Together

Learn with friends who speak the language

Your partner and friends, with the days each of them studied A friend's profile and garden
  • Ditch the solo grind. Let the people who speak it guide your learning
  • Avoid awkward textbook phrases. Learn to talk like a local
  • See who studied today and keep each other going

The Gift of Language

Add life to your language with a personal touch

Recording a phrase for a friend Teaching a friend a new phrase
  • Get words and phrases chosen by someone who knows you
  • Hear their voice in audio recordings of every word
  • Learn sentences that are actually relevant to your life

A Proven Language Learning System

A fun and effective learning system with a personal touch

A fill in the blank exercise Rearranging the pieces of a sentence
  • Enjoy fun bite-sized lessons with a variety of exercises
  • Never forget a word with our enhanced spaced repetition system
  • Get breakdowns of phrases to learn what each individual word means

Blaze Your Own Path

Embark on an organic journey where you chart the course

Packs of words by topic Picking words from a friend's deck
  • Learn what matters most to you and your daily life
  • Explore over 500 packs containing thousands of words of all categories
  • Pick up words straight from a friend's deck

About Us

Hey! We're Kevin and Heidi. Kevin was learning Cantonese for years on his own, despite Heidi always being around. We thought there should be a way to involve her in the process.

So we started Coupling to help ourselves and other couples to make language learning a shared journey

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Grow a Garden as You Learn

Grow your garden through language effort

  • A seed sprouting in the garden

    Plant seeds you earn by studying

  • A plant two partners grow together

    Grow a plant together

  • The Market tallies the plants you and your partner grew

    Sell your harvest for Beans

  • Your effort earns seeds and water, so studying and teaching both make it grow
  • Harvest grown plants and trade them at the Market
  • Spend Beans, the cafe's currency, on new words and new ways to learn

Take a Tour of the Cafe

  • A garden growing behind the cafe
  • Rearranging a Chinese sentence piece by piece
  • Packs of words by topic, each with its own icon
Take the Tour

Blog

”Speak to someone in a language they understand, that goes to the head.

Talk to them in their language, that goes to the heart”

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