Gaming is the newstudying

Learn to speak Spanish by playing video games. AI friends play alongside you, react to what you do, and get you speaking as you play. It’s screen time you can finally feel good about.

Built by developers and educators

Y Combinator, where GameStudy’s founder was in the program
Stanford University, where a GameStudy team member earned a PhD
Amazon, where a GameStudy team member worked
Columbia University, where a GameStudy team member earned an MBA
Intuit, where GameStudy’s founder was a senior product manager
Duke University, where GameStudy’s founder earned an MBA
UCLA, where a GameStudy team member earned a PhD

Research from Yale, Stanford, and Columbia shows that learning through games boosts both results and motivation.

Have fun playing and pick up Spanish too

Run a store, explore worlds, and complete missions in the game. AI friends play and talk with you like real teammates, all in Spanish.

Phrases players say
A teenage GameStudy player talking out loud mid-sentence in his bedroom

Games that naturally get you speaking Spanish

The only way to play is to speak out loud

A teenager sits on his bedroom floor playing on his iPhone, talking out loud to the game

Perdón, ¿puedes repetir eso?

Words spoken out loud

1,352

Measured from real GameStudy sessions

As effective as living there

The fastest way to learn a language is to go live in it. GameStudy builds that experience into the games you play.

The same cafe counter rendered in Cafe Life’s low-poly style
A customer ordering at a real cafe counter, mid-sentence

Go deeper with Spanish beyond the games

Describe photos and videos, speak with Kai, or share your screen and chat. Plenty of ways to practice.

Describe it

Say what you see

Describe a photo or video out loud, then see a more natural way to say it.

Free conversation

A friend who remembers

Kai knows what you told her last week, and asks how it went.

Screen share

Talk about what you see

Kai sees what’s on your screen with you and gets you talking about it.

So many ways to play

Survival Island: Gather wood, stone, and food to stay alive, with two AI teammates who do what you ask out loud.
Spy: Everyone gets the same secret word except the spy. Hint at yours without saying it, then vote.
Guess What: Both sides hide a card. Ask yes or no questions until you can name the other one.
Missions: Take on a mission and talk your way to yes. Miss it and they hang up.
Word Rush: A card carrying a word's meaning drops toward you. Say the word before it lands.
Pronunciation: Say a word and get scored on your pronunciation.
Crosswords: Solve clues written in your own language, spelling each answer from a tray of letters.
Survival Island: Gather wood, stone, and food to stay alive, with two AI teammates who do what you ask out loud.
Spy: Everyone gets the same secret word except the spy. Hint at yours without saying it, then vote.
Guess What: Both sides hide a card. Ask yes or no questions until you can name the other one.
Missions: Take on a mission and talk your way to yes. Miss it and they hang up.
Word Rush: A card carrying a word's meaning drops toward you. Say the word before it lands.
Pronunciation: Say a word and get scored on your pronunciation.
Crosswords: Solve clues written in your own language, spelling each answer from a tray of letters.
Cafe Life: Run a cafe. Take orders, buy equipment, hire staff, and grow the business.Soon
Life Sim: Live a whole life in the language you are learning.Soon
Room Escape: Talk your way out of a locked room.Soon
Millionaire: Answer quiz questions while the clock runs and the money climbs.Soon
Growing a Garden: Grow a garden out of the words you learn.Soon
Cafe Life: Run a cafe. Take orders, buy equipment, hire staff, and grow the business.Soon
Life Sim: Live a whole life in the language you are learning.Soon
Room Escape: Talk your way out of a locked room.Soon
Millionaire: Answer quiz questions while the clock runs and the money climbs.Soon
Growing a Garden: Grow a garden out of the words you learn.Soon

4.8

On the App Store

From our players

My son was addicted to Roblox, and it used to worry me. Now he’s learning English while he plays games, so I feel very relieved! He finds GameStudy as fun as Roblox, so he mostly plays on GameStudy now.

geun***

My vocabulary is pretty thin, but the words that come up in the games stick with me, and I find myself actually using them in free conversation. It has worked better than I expected.

jiwo***

I always quit language classes halfway through, but studying while playing a game has me taking lessons every day! It is perfect for studying in a way that stays enjoyable.

bori***

I have no English-speaking teachers or friends around me, so I never got a chance to speak. I would just watch YouTube and talk to myself. GameStudy has me speaking a lot now, and I am really happy with it!

eu***

Lessons with a native speaker usually cost over $40 an hour, which was a real burden. Now I can learn English whenever I want, as much as I want. Very satisfied!

seul_***

I am an introvert, so I hardly spoke at a language school. Since Kai is an AI, there is no pressure and I end up talking a lot!

hyundo***

Questions

Most apps are multiple choice and repeat-after-me. GameStudy is built so you absorb Spanish through experience, the way you would pick it up living abroad. You keep using Spanish to win the game, so the words stay with you longer. And because it’s fun, you come back more often, and your Spanish improves without it ever feeling like studying.

Yes. GameStudy is built for beginners. If you’re a beginner, your AI friends speak slowly and in short sentences, using easy words. Captions, translations and hints can be turned on or off whenever you like. If you miss something an AI friend said, you can play the line again slowly or scroll back through the caption history. If you don’t know a word, you can tap it to see what it means and hear how it sounds. And if you don’t know how to say something at all, just say it in your own language. Your AI friend will show you how to say it, then answer you.

You will be fine. The games are designed to be easy to play, so you can focus on what you are saying rather than on how to play. You don’t need to be good at games to enjoy it.

Yes. You play on a private server with only AI friends, not an open server full of strangers. Conversations with the AI have safeguards built in, so children can use it safely too. There are no ads anywhere in the app.

Right now it is iPhone only, but an Android version is coming soon. Leave your email below and we’ll let you know the moment it’s ready.

Sixteen so far. You can use GameStudy in English, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Tamil and Turkish.

These are available now.

  • Survival Island: Gather wood, stone, and food to stay alive, with two AI teammates who do what you ask out loud.
  • Spy: Everyone gets the same secret word except the spy. Hint at yours without saying it, then vote.
  • Guess What: Both sides hide a card. Ask yes or no questions until you can name the other one.
  • Missions: Take on a mission and talk your way to yes. Miss it and they hang up.
  • Word Rush: A card carrying a word's meaning drops toward you. Say the word before it lands.
  • Pronunciation: Say a word and get scored on your pronunciation.
  • Crosswords: Solve clues written in your own language, spelling each answer from a tray of letters.
  • Coming soon. Cafe Life, Fast Food Rush, Life Sim, Room Escape, Millionaire, and Growing a Garden.

Gaming is the newstudying