I fell in love with a Polish girl.
I couldn't talk to her mum.

So I built an app. In 47 days, it became the world's first language learning platform designed around the people you love most.

This is how it happened.

It started with forgetting.

I'd ask Misha a question about Polish. She'd explain it perfectly. By morning, it was gone. Every time.

I had Duolingo on my phone. I got the daily notifications — "Did you practice Polish today?" — and every single day I'd swipe them away. Because Duolingo wasn't teaching me the right things. It was teaching me that the cat eats bread. I needed to know how to tell Misha's mum that the food was delicious.

So in December, I tried building something in Google AI Studio. A simple app that could listen to what Misha taught me and save it. Capture a real conversation and store it somewhere I could actually go back to.

I couldn't finish it in time.

Then Christmas happened.

We flew to Poland for Christmas. Misha's whole family around the table. Rich conversation happening everywhere — jokes, stories, traditions. All in Polish. All around me.

Then Misha got sick and had to leave the table.

And suddenly I was alone. Surrounded by her family, people I care about, and I had no mechanism to engage. I couldn't follow the conversation. I couldn't learn from it. I couldn't even respond. I was just… there.

That was the moment it clicked. Not just "I should learn Polish." It was: there is no app that solves this. For anyone. In any language. It doesn't exist.

Richard

That night I knew I was going to build it. Not because it was a business opportunity. Because I never wanted to feel that lost again.

I sat down and started building.

This is my third startup. The previous two went to shit. But I knew exactly what I wanted to make, I had the skills to do it, and I had the most important thing any founder needs: I had the problem myself.

I started with English to Polish. By January 14th, it worked — badly, but it worked.

And then I thought: someone more tech-savvy is going to see this idea and build it for every language. Because the concept isn't Polish-specific. It's universal.

So I gave myself 9 days. Two of those nights I didn't sleep. Two full days of attempts I threw away and deleted entirely. But by January 24th, Love Languages supported 18 native languages and 17 target languages. 306 possible language pairs.

It took me 22 days from zero to multilingual.

One in five relationships is international.

That's hundreds of millions of people. They're in love with someone who speaks a different language. And they have real problems that no app touches.

What language will their kids speak? What happens when you move to their country and can't read a street sign? What do you do at their family's wedding, or their grandmother's funeral, when you can't understand anything and everyone's emotions are too raw for Google Translate?

How do you connect with your partner's parents? How do you stop being the person at the table who smiles and nods? How do you stop feeling alone in a room full of people who love you?

These couples want to take their relationship to the next level. They want to become better for each other. That's the most powerful motivation to learn a language that exists — and nobody built for it.

Duolingo teaches you to order coffee. We teach you to make your partner's mother laugh.

On the other side of the language barrier is a better relationship.

People who are in love want to become better for their partner. That's not a marketing claim. That's just what love does.

Our app helps couples get closer to each other's families. Understand each other's cultures. Participate in traditions — Christmas dinners, weddings, bedtime stories with their kids. Not as an outsider, but as family.

It helps couples have more fun together. Flirt in two languages. Understand the insults and the compliments. Learn the pet names — Polish has the most beautiful diminutives. Myszka (little mouse). Żabka (little frog). Misha calls me Rysiu.

And honestly? If learning your partner's language leads to feeling more connected, having better conversations, understanding each other more deeply — the downstream effects take care of themselves. Better relationships. Closer families. Less loneliness.

This app is doing that for us. We want it to do that for everyone else too.

Richard & Misha

Your partner becomes your teacher.
AI becomes your bridge.

Two roles. Student and Tutor. Linked accounts. One learns, one teaches, both connect through language.

Built entirely on Google.

Google isn't a vendor for us. It's the foundation. Every core experience in Love Languages runs through Google technology.

The tutor's Coach mode is an agentic AI — Gemini has full context of the student's weak words, learning velocity, and progress trends. It tells the tutor what to do next: send a word gift, trigger a quiz, write a love note. This isn't a chatbot. It's a teaching assistant.

Two people. Self-funded. No sleep.

People are hungry for this.

We're 47 days old with zero ad spend. Here's what's happening organically.

We're not designers. We're not marketers. We're a British guy and a Polish girl who built something for ourselves and discovered that millions of people need it too.

One subscription. Two people.

When one partner subscribes, the other gets full access automatically. Because that's how relationships work.

7-day free trial. Standard at $69/year. Unlimited at $139/year.

The retention logic is built into the product. This isn't a solo habit you might quit. It's a shared journey between two people. If you start learning your partner's language together, giving up feels like giving up on something that's bringing you closer.

And the partners who use this — they want their relationship to get better. They want to connect with family. They want to understand the culture. If they didn't want that, why are they together?

Coming soon: Add a Language ($5.99/month per language) for learning beyond your partner's language. Creator/affiliate referral program. Push notifications via native mobile app.

Where we're going.