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An app to help couples learn each other's languages (https://learncoupling.com)

My wife is Chinese, and I've been learning Cantonese and Mandarin off-and-on on my own for years. For many reasons, I recognize it's extremely difficult to make it work to acquire a language with the help of a romantic partner. I even had a friend who's wife was a doctorate in French language education but completely failed to use her as a resource.

I've identified some of the pitfalls and am developing a system to get native speaking partners more involved in language learner's journeys in a fun and encouraging way (not as a teacher).

This is my second startup! Went through YC once on my first one (related to VR). Been using YC Startup School this time around.

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At first glance, I thought you meant languages in the metaphorical sense. I actually thought that sounded cool. Sort of like a gamified way of understanding what makes each other feel loved, etc. Just wanted to add this idea in there.

I think I heard this before, haha! That would be a cool to have a raw relationship maintenance tool. In a way, learning their language and culture helps you learn their love language too :)

Yes, and given the divorce rate and how widely applicable it is (everyone has their own "language" you need to decode) this could be a huge market!

Unfortunately, while I’m very happily married (without kids yet), I don’t think I’m qualified to be a love doctor, haha.

Me and my wife use relationship app called Paired. It's asynchronous and we found it to be useful.

https://www.getpaired.com/

I thought the same. A bit of story telling... My girlfriend and I have switched half of our conversations to internal memes to express how we feel or feel about something, especially with small conflicts that arise from everyday life. I guess most couples do that to an extent, though I think spending so much time together last year (COVID19 working from home ) increased the "meme communication".

Hehe, one of the cool things about learning each other's spoken languages, is you get more memes, in other languages. I have a handful of fun Chinese phrases to whip out like "you're effin' annoying" or ways of calling each other idiots :)

I love the teacup mascots with the "refilling each other" visual. Nice touch.

Thanks! Can’t afford art yet so I have to do it myself, haha.

Hey, looks really cool. I subscribed. Seems that its only made to learn one language, right? I for example have the situation that I need to learn my wifes mother tongue and she needs to learn mine, will that be possible?

It supports bi-directional learning/teaching! And you can switch languages any time while keeping progress.

This looks really neat, just subscribed to the newsletter.

Thank you!

This is amazing. I can see this working in long-distance relationships as well. Super nice product! Subscribed to newsletter as well

I've been there. Hope to get in touch with you later!

Wow thanks ! It's really the perfect app that I was looking for !

Thanks, hope to get in touch with you soon!

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