Say it out loud. From day one.

Only time with the microphone open. Reading, watching and Prima's own replies are free. The bank is shared across iPhone, Chrome and the web, and across every language you are learning. Sixty seconds of silence closes a session, so an idle tab never spends your minutes.

Thirty-four today, including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil and English. The rest of Gemini Live's seventy are switched on one by one as we test each, and the picker lets you ask to be told when yours opens. Learn several; one classroom is active at a time, and you switch with a toggle.

Yes. It reads the subtitles rather than the picture, so it works even on protected video. Auto mode keeps a 30-second buffer, spots a phrase just above your level, pauses the video and opens the mic. Sites without captions get captions made on your device from the tab's audio.

No. Pick Beginner at sign-up and Prima speaks slowly with everyday words. It adjusts live inside every session and asks before changing your baseline level.

Nothing. Streaks track consistency: whether you spoke today. Changing level only moves the hours-to-fluency bar.

Prima is a voice persona built on Gemini Live: warm, patient and a little witty, with no cartoon mascot and no face. Prima is the default voice; Primo is a baritone alternative.

The web app runs in Safari on iOS 15 and later, which reaches back to the iPhone 6s, and installs to the Home Screen like an app; it goes easy on the effects when an older phone or Low Power Mode asks for it. The iPhone app needs iOS 16.1 (iPhone 8 and later) so a live session can sit in the Dynamic Island. On the iPhone Duo the inner screen gets two columns (the map beside the scene, the buzzer beside its question, the table in two columns) and folding the phone simply reflows the same screen without losing a game or a half-typed answer.

Yes. The web app runs in Chrome, Samsung Internet and any browser built on the same engine from 2022 on, which covers every Android phone still getting Chrome updates and most that are not, and installs from the browser menu with an icon, shortcuts and notifications. On a foldable it uses the whole inner screen in two columns, and half-open it keeps the question in the upper half and the buzzer in the lower one. The Android app, on the same account and minutes, follows the iPhone app.

English and Spanish today, with more on the way. The coaching itself works in more than 30 languages, with your own language as the base.

Yes. The Chrome extension works on Crunchyroll and Netflix with Japanese subtitles: Prima shadows lines with you, explains casual against polite forms, and asks about the scene when it ends. On iPhone, Prima listens to what is playing on the phone and asks about it in the quiet moments.

Kids mode, for ages six to twelve, on the family plan: camera tasks, five-minute sessions, no open-ended chat, a report to parents after every session, and verified parental consent before any account is created.

Choose Work or School at sign-up and the scenes follow: interviews, stand-ups and client calls in your field, or the timed speaking sections of DELE, IELTS, JLPT and DELF scored the way examiners score.

Register switching (the same sentence to your boss, a friend, a stranger, a child), idioms and slang from real shows with their warning labels, regional accents, debate mode, and explaining an episode back to Prima.

No. The Scenario Map is how Prima structures your time when you want structure: a road of ten units and eleven themed tracks, 160 scenes with an objective and a score. Talk is the same coach with no objective and no score, and the Chrome extension is the same coach beside your show. All three use the same minutes and feed the same vault.

A number out of 100 at the end of every scene: grammar accuracy (40), vocabulary variety (25), pacing against your level (20) and whether you completed the objective (15). Eighty opens the next scene. Free talk is never scored.

The Vocab Vault, transcripts with tap-to-define, and fifty text messages a day with Prima. Live speaking is three minutes a day free and twenty on Pro; on Pro, text chat is unlimited too.

Yes. Each language is its own classroom with its own level, map and vault: French can be Advanced while Spanish, started today, is Beginner. One classroom is active at a time; switching takes one tap and never touches your minutes or your streak.

For the most-learned languages (Spanish, French, German, Japanese, English) nine sections from A1.1 to C1: 250 units and 1,250 spoken scenes, about fifty hours of talking. Other languages get six or three sections and grow as they are tested. Every unit is five scenes of three minutes, the last one a finale; every scene is played by Prima as the other person and scored at the end.

The Buzzer: ten rounds, first to buzz answers. Words from your vault, lines Prima said to you, trivia and riddles in the language. Solo, a live duel, a party of four, or a challenge link that gives a friend your ten questions and a day to beat you. It is built for adults: no cartoon, no confetti, one very satisfying button.

Text rounds cost nobody anything and are unlimited. A "Say it" round opens only the buzzer's own microphone for ten seconds, and that player's own bank pays, exactly as in a session. Nobody ever spends another player's minutes, and a player with no minutes left can still play every text round. Hearing Prima read the questions costs nothing.

All three, by tier. Open (the default up to A2) shows the word and four meanings: six seconds, six points. Standard (B1 and B2) shows the meaning and you type the word: ten seconds, a first-letter hint, ten points, one slip of the keyboard forgiven. Hard drops the hints and shortens the clock. "Say it" rounds are spoken whenever you have minutes and typed when you do not, and trivia stays multiple choice at every tier. A wrong answer costs five whatever the format, so guessing from four is never free.

Your ten-second window is yours: if what Prima heard is not the word, the board shows what she heard and you can say it again while time remains. The referee accepts the word anywhere in what you said and forgives one slip on longer words. Nothing heard at all costs nothing. A typed answer that runs out of time is sent as it stands, so a slow thumb is a try, not silence.

Everyone can press even after someone has the floor; that puts you in line, in the order you pressed. When the answer is wrong, times out, or nothing was heard, the floor passes to the next in line with a fresh window. Only when nobody is in line do the buzzers reopen for a steal. One go per player per round, and a tie after the ten rounds goes to sudden death.

Nothing stops. Every text round is free, and on a "Say it" round the board simply asks you to type the word instead, for the same points. If you want the mic back, a boost pack can be added from inside the room without leaving it, and your mic opens again from the next "Say it" round. A microphone the browser has blocked works the same way: type it, same points.

There is the Table: twenty people who study at your hours, one week, five venues named after where your voice carries (Café, Terrace, Dinner, Salon, Stage). Points come from speaking, not tapping: a scene passed, a day you spoke, a buzzer game, a win, a vault review, and only the first five live minutes of a day count, so a bigger plan barely moves the table. Sunday night, your time, the top five move up a venue and the bottom four move down. The Stage has no venue above it; its top three are the week's headliners. There is also a friends board of everyone you have played with, and a quiet mode that takes you out of the tables entirely.

Yes, on purpose and capped. Any player with minutes to spare can cover the room's "Say it" rounds from their own bank, up to one, two or five minutes, keeping ten seconds for themselves; everyone's mic then runs on the sponsor's minutes first. The bar at the top always shows today's minutes and pack minutes separately, and packs are only touched once today's are gone. Nobody can spend your minutes without you choosing it.

The referee lives on the server, so a dropped phone never stalls the room. A player silent for twelve seconds is marked away; in a one-against-one duel the round pauses for up to twenty seconds for them, then carries on without them. In a party the others simply keep playing. Someone away for a full minute, or who leaves, counts as gone, and if only one player remains the game ends as a walkover with the scores as they stand. When the host loses signal in the lobby, the next player becomes host after thirty seconds.

Only if you say yes, and we ask after a moment worth it, not on arrival. Three kinds: a streak nudge in the evening on days you have not spoken yet, a note when Vocab Vault words are due, and a morning note when your minutes are back. At most one in the morning and one in the evening, never at night, and each kind has its own switch that also turns it off in the Chrome extension.

A teacher, in the sense that matters: every scene runs on a lesson plan. Before you go in you see the task, the three or four moves you have to make, a phrase for each, one rule and a warning that something will go wrong. Inside, Prima stays in character, keeps her sentences at your level, corrects a slip by saying it right in her own next line, offers the phrase if you go quiet and gives it in your language if you get stuck twice. At the end she steps out of character for twenty seconds: what you did well, at most two slips, and the rule. It is task-based teaching, the way language schools teach, with a coach who never runs out of patience.

Yes, and you do not need a wake word: the microphone is open for the whole session, so you just speak, over Prima if you have to, and she stops. Ask in English ("how do you say straw?", "why 'es' and not 'está'?") and she answers in English in at most two sentences, then says the line she was on again in Spanish, so the next thing you say is Spanish. The aside is marked in the transcript and listed in the report. Ask her about calculus or the news and she deflects with a smile and gets back to the scene: in English up to B1, in Spanish from C1.

No. A mistake in a scene costs nothing: Prima says it right in her own next sentence and the scene carries on. A scene you do not pass keeps its best score and can be played again straight away, and the vault, the text chat and your transcripts are unlimited on every plan. The only thing that runs out is live minutes, three a day free, and you can see them at the top of the screen at all times.

Prima Speak is built around speaking out loud with live correction, roleplay and the video you already watch, rather than tapping through exercises. Sessions are measured in minutes of talking, and every one ends with the two or three things to fix next.