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The technology

The AI does the part you would have given up on

Making good language material by hand is why most people quit: writing the cards, finding a real example sentence, sourcing audio, checking the pronunciation. Here that work is done for you, in one app, by models that are genuinely good at it. You do the learning.

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What the AI actually does for you

Not a chatbot bolted onto a flashcard app. These are the jobs that used to be yours.

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    It writes the course

    Give it a topic and a level and you get a whole collection back in about a minute: the cards, real example sentences, short stories that interleave them, even the cover. Restaurant Greek, Dutch tax vocabulary, the phrases your job actually uses. It did not exist before you asked.

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    It writes stories out of your own words

    Once you have some vocabulary, it builds short stories and dialogues from the words you already know, at your level, and drops them into your queue. Same words, new context, which is the part that turns recognition into recall.

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    It speaks everything, in 76 languages

    Every card, story and board gets natural audio automatically, including the sentences you typed yourself at midnight. Volume is levelled so a playlist does not jump, and slower versions are generated so you can shadow properly.

  4. 04

    It builds the card so you do not have to

    Type one side and the translation, a real usage example and the phonetic transcription arrive with it. Every card carries IPA, in every writing system, so you are never guessing how a word sounds.

  5. 05

    It decides what you see next

    You never build a study plan or pick today's deck. What is due comes back when it is due, hardest material first, interleaved rather than blocked. The decision is made for you, every session, and it is the decision most people get wrong when they make it themselves.

And it is supported by smart algorithms

Generation is only half of it. The other half is a set of algorithms that decide, every session, what you actually see. None of them is a model, and we do not call them AI: for these jobs arithmetic and retrieval genuinely beat one.

It knows when you will forget

Every item carries its own difficulty and comes back just before it would slip. That timing is the difference between a review that costs you nothing and one that teaches.

It mixes instead of blocking

Material arrives shuffled rather than in neat sets, so you have to work out which rule applies before applying it. Harder in the moment, better a month later.

It finds you a real sentence

Type a word and authentic example sentences appear, pulled from millions of real ones. Retrieved, never generated, so nothing you learn from was invented.

It writes the pronunciation

Phonetic transcription on every card, in every writing system, produced by rule rather than guessed.

It orders what you hear

The listening queue leads with what you have heard least and what you find hardest, so nothing quietly goes unplayed.

It makes review uncomfortable on purpose

Items return slightly too early to be easy. The effort of pulling something back out of memory is what makes it hold.

The alternative is doing all of that by hand

Anki is a fine program and we will not pretend otherwise. But its content model is you: you type both sides of every card, hunt for an example sentence, find or record audio, look up the pronunciation, then design your own deck structure and keep it tidy for years. People do not abandon Anki because the algorithm failed. They abandon it because making material is a second job.

The wager here is simple. If the material makes itself, and something else decides what you see today, the only thing left for you to do is the learning.

The other half of the argument

The research the method is built onHow the hands-free listening mode works

What you get

76 languages

Generated material and real audio in every one of them, including sentences you write yourself.

Courses from A1 to C2

The Core collections run one continuous path, and you can generate your own alongside them.

Material made on demand

A collection on any topic at any level, written, translated and voiced in about a minute.

Learn and Listen

The same library scheduled on screen and played hands-free in your ears.

This is for you if

  • You want an app where the AI actually does something, not one where it writes you a chat reply and calls that a feature.
  • You have material you need in another language and no appetite for building the cards for it by hand.
  • You have tried Anki or Quizlet and stalled, not on the reviews but on making the deck.
  • You want the AI to decide what you study today so you can stop managing your own curriculum.

What users say

Over 24,000 people forge a language with Taalhammer.

As a polyglot I tested all the other tools like Anki, Quizlet, and Memrise. But Taalhammer is in a league of its own. — Martin

The material makes itself, the schedule decides itself. Your job is the learning.

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