A tutor that cares about you.

Pezmu is conversation practice with an AI tutor that remembers your life, in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Greek. It's one long chat you type, about your real day, instead of lessons and exercises. The tutor keeps a record of every word you produce, so it can pitch each turn just past what you can already say and tell you what to fix.

It's for people who understand a fair amount of the language they're learning but can't say much — and for people who learned one once and can feel it slipping.

Only if you were invited. Pezmu is in a closed beta — a small group using it and telling us what’s wrong, which is easier to act on a few people at a time than a few thousand. Leave your email and you’ll hear when there’s a place.

Everyone in the beta has it free. The list costs you an email address and nothing else: one message when a place opens, and no newsletter.

Seven: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Greek. Each one keeps its own words, its own conversation and its own record — switching between them mixes nothing, and deletes nothing. What the tutor knows about your life comes with you.

If a correction ever looks wrong to you, tell us — that's the fastest way it gets fixed.

That's the exact gap it's built for. Understanding is recognition — you meet a word and know it. Speaking is production — you have to pull the word out of your own head with nothing in front of you, which is harder and gets practised far less.

Everything here asks you to produce: the tutor talks to you in the language you're learning, ends on an open question, and only counts a word once you've used it yourself.

A chat window can talk. It can't tell you how you're doing, because it never kept score. Ask it whether your vocabulary widened this month and it has nothing to answer from.

Flashcards do keep score, but of recognition: they train you to know a word when you're shown it. That's useful, and it's not the same skill as reaching for the word mid-sentence when nothing is prompting you.

Pezmu reads every turn you write — which words you used unprompted, which mistakes repeat, how far your sentences reach. A word only counts when you produce it in a real conversation, unprompted. The review happens inside the conversation: a word you're still learning stays in front of you, and comes back when it fits what you're talking about — not because a card came up.

A syllabus is structure for the publisher, not for you: it's an average of a million learners, so half of it you already know and the part you need is three months out. You can't miss a word you'd never say.

But unstructured only works if something keeps track — so the structure moved underneath. The record knows which words are yours, which grammar you dodge, where your reach ends. Unstructured on the surface, rigorous underneath.

There's no session either. Three lines counts; so does twenty minutes. Nothing to book, and nothing to fall off — miss two weeks and you just say something.

No install. Pezmu runs in the browser, so it works on a phone, a tablet, a laptop — iPhone or Android, Mac or Windows, whatever you have to hand. On a phone you can add it to your home screen and it opens like any other app. Your conversation lives with your account, not on the device, so you pick up the same chat wherever you sign in.

And no, you don't speak. It's a chat you type, which is why it works in a coffee queue and a quiet office. You can have the tutor read its replies aloud. Talking back instead of typing is not ready yet — we're working on it.

It remembers real details from what you've told it — your job, the people in your life, what's coming up. The whole list is on one page, and you can delete any line; the tutor then stops referring to it. You decide what goes on that list: say you're a chef when you're an accountant. What makes practice stick is that the shape of the conversation is yours, not that every fact is true.

Your messages go to Google's Gemini models, which write the tutor's reply and work out which words you used and where you slipped. We use Google's paid tier, where what we send isn't used to improve Google's models. Everything else sits in our database and gets read back to you. Nothing is sold or shared with advertisers, and nobody here reads your conversations — we can see how much you've used it, not what you said. The app runs no analytics and sets one cookie — the one that keeps you signed in.

Start over wipes everything: every message, every saved word, every fact. Deleting your account does that and takes the account and your email address with it. Both are immediate, and neither can be undone.

Beta means it's being built while you use it, and we'd rather say so than let you find out. The tutor is an AI, so now and then it will be confidently wrong about a grammar rule or a translation. We test the corrections against sentences with known answers, and we want to hear about the ones that slip through.

What beta does not mean is that your record is disposable. Everything you write is kept and counted the same as it will be later — that record is the product, not a test run — and you can download all of it or delete all of it whenever you like.

There will be a price later. It costs real money to run, and a tutor funded by selling your conversations is not a tutor we'd build. We don't know the number yet, and we'd rather say that than invent one. You'll be told before anything changes, and you'll be able to take your whole record with you if you'd rather not stay.