Pocket Parrot
No account · Works offline

Say it out loud.
Or just show the screen.

A phrasebook for the moment you're actually standing at the stall. Pick a country, tap a phrase, and your phone speaks it in a real voice — with the native script big enough to hold up to a shopkeeper.

Free, no sign-up Installs like an app Audio cached for the trip
9:41
Japan
Buying food
6 phrases · offline
One, please
kore wa ikura desu ka
How much is this?
Playing
Aya
Do you take cards?
What do you recommend?
A bag, please
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How it works

Three taps from your pocket to being understood.

01
Pick your country

Download it once on hotel Wi-Fi and the whole phrasebook — audio included — comes with you.

Japan
Offline ready
Taiwan
Downloading 58%
02
Open the situation

Sets are named for where you are — buying food, transport, restaurant, emergencies. No lessons, no levels.

Buying food
Transport
03
Tap, play, show

The phrase expands in place. Hear it, or turn the screen around — the native script is the biggest thing on it.

這個多少錢
zhè ge duō shǎo qián
Built for bad signal

The moment you need it is the moment you have no data.

Everything you've downloaded keeps working underground, in the countryside, and on aeroplane mode. When you're offline we say so quietly at the top of the screen — and nothing stops working.

Offline — 6 phrases available here
Taiwan · downloading audio
Japan · available offline
0
accounts required to use everything
< 5 MB
per country, audio included
2–3
voices per language, including a slow read
44px+
every tap target, one-handed, in sunlight
Typography that can be read at arm's length

Native script is set as the hero, not as a caption under the English. Japanese and Chinese get proper CJK faces, weights and line-height — not a Latin font stretched over them.

Anonymous until you want otherwise

Browse, play and download without an account. Signing in with Google appears once, inline, only when you star a phrase you'd like on your other devices.

A tool, not a course

No streaks, no mascots, no daily goals. It behaves like a transit app: open it, get the answer, close it.

Starting with Japan and Taiwan

More countries on the way
Japan
Japanese
Taiwan
Mandarin
KoreaSoon
Korean
ThailandSoon
Thai
VietnamSoon
Vietnamese
IndonesiaSoon
Indonesian
FranceSoon
French
ItalySoon
Italian
SpainSoon
Spanish
PortugalSoon
Portuguese
TürkiyeSoon
Turkish
MexicoSoon
Spanish

Download your country before you fly.

Open it in the browser, add it to your home screen, pick a country. That's the whole setup.

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