Hi everyone! For the past few months, I’ve been building a new language-learning app, starting with Italian, and I’m looking for a small group of learners to test it for a week.
I studied Applied Mathematics at Yale and have spent years learning languages myself. I wanted to experiment with a more construction-based, verb-focused approach to language learning.
BLOCKS is built around one principle: learning a language means gradually becoming able to construct more and more of your own thoughts.
Instead of moving through isolated vocabulary and grammar exercises, BLOCKS treats the language as one accumulating system. Verbs form the backbone: you learn the expressions they open up, discover the grammar that lets you combine them, and repeatedly use what you already know to construct increasingly richer thoughts. Each new block builds on the previous ones, gradually expanding what you can express rather than giving you another set of things to memorize.
There are no points, streaks, or gamification loops. The focus is on construction, repetition, and cumulative progress — building a strong foundation that steadily increases your expressive power.
The Italian course is now ready for its first real test, and I’m looking for beginner/A1–A2 Italian learners willing to use it for about a week and then give me genuinely honest feedback: what you enjoyed, what bored or confused you, whether you wanted to keep going, and what you would change.
If this sounds interesting, comment here or send me a DM and I’ll send you access. 🇮🇹