Nora

Your personal AI language tutor Speak your new language from day one.

Real conversations with a tutor who corrects you as you speak, remembers what trips you up, and takes you into stories worth talking about.

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Eight languages, from your first word

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Filmed in JapaneseNora speaks eight languages.

Nora (Nora AI) is an AI language tutor app for adults who understand some of a language but freeze when they speak. You talk to Nora out loud in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Italian or Swedish; she answers in your language and the new one in a single voice, corrects you as you go, and turns your mistakes into flashcards. Nora works on iPhone, Android and the web, with a 7-day free trial, then $16.99 a month or $9.99 a month billed yearly.

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How Nora works

One small slip. A different next time.

Example in JapaneseNora does the same in all eight languages.

お水みずが→お水みずを

omizu o · water, as the thing you order.

  1. 1 · Tonight, on a call

    You ask for water. One particle off.

    お水みずが……お願ねがいします。

    Water… please.

    はい、「お水みずをお願ねがいします」ですね。頼たのむものには「を」を使つかいます。

    Sure, "Water, please." Use を for the thing you ask for.

  2. 2 · Tonight, after the call

    Nora keeps it, with your sentence.

    Working on

    を before お願いします and ください

    You said “お水がお願いします” → “お水をお願いします”

    noticed 1× · since tonight · last seen tonight

  3. 3 · Tomorrow morning

    It becomes a card on its own.

    Didn't know Knew it 

  4. 4 · Thursday, in a lesson

    You say it right, to a real person.

    Daichi, behind the ramen counter

    いらっしゃい！ご注文ちゅうもんは？

    Welcome! What’ll it be?

    ラーメンをひとつください。お水みずをお願ねがいします。

    One ramen, please. Water, please.

    Recently mastered

    を before お願いします and ください

    correct 2× in a row · Nora stopped bringing it up

Lessons

Start with a lesson. Three phrases, then a real conversation.

Each lesson teaches a few lines, rehearses them, and sends you to use them on someone in Tokyo, Seoul or Madrid. In every language, from your first day.

Tokyo Survival Basics in the web player, in speech mode: dinner at the ramen counter, Daichi Mori introducing himself in Japanese and English.

Shown in JapaneseYour lessons are in your language.

Tokyo Survival Basics · Dinner at the Counter

  1. 1

    Learn. Three phrases, taught one at a time.

  2. 2

    Rehearse. Say them back, with a twist.

  3. 3

    Use. Order from a real person in a real city.

Every phrase a lesson teaches lands in your cards and in what Nora remembers, so the adventure that follows already knows what you can say.

Your first day in Madrid: learn to greet people, order food, and shop with confidence, one guided lesson at a time.

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Adventures

And then, the adventures. Your choices change the story, the people, the ending.

Painted worlds, voiced characters, and objectives you complete by speaking. What you say moves the story.

One Chair at Dawn on the phone: What happens next, two routes.
Two Cases, One Chair

Characters with their own voices answer what you actually say.

Every choice changes who you meet and how the night ends. Mysteries, deals, near misses. Endings you reach are kept, so the next run can go somewhere else.

Several endings to find

An overnight train, one empty chair in a famous orchestra, and two rivals booked into the same compartment.

Drag, scroll sideways, or tap a cover

Your first lesson is a few minutes away, in the browser or in the app.

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What you get

A tutor, not a chatbot. Six things a translate box cannot do.

Examples in Japanese, Spanish, French and KoreanEvery one is something the app does today.

  1. A real dictionary, in every form a word takes.

    In Japanese, Korean and Chinese a tapped verb resolves to its dictionary form, with readings, pinyin or romaji. In the other five languages a tap translates the word. One more tap saves it.

    昨日きのう、友達ともだちと晩ばんご飯はんを食たべましたか？

    Did you have dinner with friends yesterday?

    食べる

    common

    taberu

    Ichidan verb, transitive

    1. 1to eat
    2. 2to live on (e.g. a salary); to live off; to subsist on

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Compared

Why choose Nora. Against a tutor, other AI, ChatGPT and Duolingo.

FeatureNoraTutorOther AIChatGPTDuolingo
Cost$9.99 to $16.99/moVaries by tutorVaries by appFree; Plus $20/moFree; paid plans vary
Both languages in one sentenceYesLimitedVariesNoNo
Remembers your mistakesYesVariesVariesLimitedNo
Cards that write themselvesYesNoVariesNoNo
Tap any word, real dictionaryYesYesVariesNoNo
Calls you can interruptYesYesVariesYesPaid tiers
Lessons from day oneYesYesVariesNoYes
Stories that branch on what you sayYesNoVariesNoNo
A tutor you can tuneYesYesVariesLimitedNo
Your own tutor personaYesNoVariesNoNo

Swipe for ChatGPT and Duolingo

USD prices. Nora's $9.99/month plan is billed $119.88 yearly. ChatGPT Plus is $20/month; other ChatGPT plans are available. OpenAI pricing source (checked ). Other prices vary by provider, plan and region.

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Learners

Learners are loving Nora

M

“Finally the missing piece in improving my Japanese.”

Mila, Israel

O

“Nora is still WAY better in grammar explanations, guessing intent from imperfect phrases, text to speech, and tunable level of feedback.”

Omar, USA

A

“Wow! I will recommend this to my students to use in-between sessions.”

Akari, Sweden (Private Tutor)

S

“Nora is very handy when you don't have a tutor or friend at hand to practice with consistently.”

Seb, Germany

I

“First impressions: this is a massive step closer to talking with a Japanese teacher. It copes far better with my dodgy grammar and speaking mistakes. I can ask questions in English with bits of Japanese mixed in and get helpful answers. Enjoying my practise!”

Iain

Y

“I keep telling myself five minutes and then stay for an hour because I got pulled into the story. My Japanese is actually improving and most days it does not even feel like studying.”

Yuki, Australia

J

“The voice call mode is something else. I interrupted Nora mid-sentence by accident and it just handled it, same as a real person would. Was not expecting that.”

James, UK

P

“The tap-to-look-up dictionary has been a game changer for me. I used to have to switch to a different app to check readings and conjugations. Now it is all right there in the conversation.”

Priya, India

D

“What got me was the bilingual thing. Nora explains a grammar point in English and then immediately drops back into Japanese like it is nothing. My old private tutor used to do the same and I always thought it was so helpful. Never found an app that did it until this one.”

Dan, Canada

L

“I practice around 11pm after my kids go to sleep, that is the only time I have. There are not many options that actually work for that kind of schedule.”

Lena, Netherlands

M

“I had been stuck at the same level for almost two years. The difference here is that you are actually speaking from the very first session, not just tapping the right answer.”

Marco, Italy

T

“About two months in I had a full conversation with a Japanese coworker without any of the usual panic. Honestly was not expecting to get there that fast.”

Tomas, Czech Republic

William Westerlund, founder of Nora

“After 2 years of studying, I still froze when I tried to speak. That frustration became Nora, the tutor I always wished existed.”

William Westerlund, Founder of Nora

Built by language learners

Why we built Nora

Before founding Nora, William Westerlund spent years studying Japanese. He could read novels, follow movies and pass tests. When it was time to speak, he froze.

He tried apps, chatbots, even other AI tutors. None of them helped him actually speak. The conversations felt scripted and shallow, and the tools he needed were missing.

Real tutors finally helped, at sixty dollars an hour, with nerves and scheduling on top.

Pricing

A tutor this deep, for less than a coffee a week.

Both plans start with a 7-day free trial. One subscription works on your phone and on the web.

Best value

Yearly

$9.99/month

Billed $119.88/year · Less than $0.33/day

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  • High performance & low latency
  • Bilingual & monolingual support
  • Realistic & natural voices
  • Every lesson and adventure

Monthly

$16.99/month

Billed $16.99 each month

  • 7-day free trial
  • Unlimited use
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  • High performance & low latency
  • Bilingual & monolingual support
  • Realistic & natural voices
  • Every lesson and adventure

One account, every device. Start on the web or subscribe inside the app.

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Which language will you speak?

Japanese, Korean and Chinese with their own scripts and dictionaries, Spanish from Spain or Mexico, French, Italian, German and Swedish. Every one starts at your first word.

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The research behind how Nora teaches

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Fair questions.

Yes. Nora is on iOS, Android and the web. Download it from the App Store or Google Play, or use it in your browser at app.hellonora.ai.

More questions? Every answer is on the FAQ page

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Nora, at the end of your first evening

また明日あしたね。

See you tomorrow.

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