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

I had Duolingo on my phone. "Did you practice Polish today?" Every single day I'd swipe the notification away. Duolingo was teaching me that the cat eats bread. I needed to know how to tell Misia'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 Misia 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. Misia's whole family around the table. Jokes, stories, traditions. All in Polish. All around me.

Then Misia 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. I didn't just think "I should learn Polish." I realised: there is no app that solves this. For anyone. In any language. It doesn't exist.

Richard

That night I decided to build it. 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.

Then I thought: someone more tech-savvy is going to see this idea and build it for every language. The concept is 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 become better for each other. That's the most powerful motivation to learn a language that exists. Nobody built for it.

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. Love does that on its own.

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. As family.

Flirt in two languages. Understand the insults and the compliments. Polish has the most beautiful diminutives. Myszka (little mouse). Żabka (little frog). Misia calls me Rysiu.

If learning your partner's language makes you more connected, the rest follows. Better relationships. Closer families. Less loneliness.

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

Richard & Misia

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 is 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. A teaching assistant that actually knows the student.

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.

Retention is built into the product. This is 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.

The partners who use this want their relationship to get better. They want to connect with family. Understand the culture. If they didn't, 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.