We're hiring. Colton Gyulay is hyped. Join us? speak.com/careers

Our CEO Connor Zwick sat down with OpenAI to talk all things AI and language learning. Read the full conversation to learn more about why reasoning is the next leap for AI tutors & more! openai.com/index/speak-co…

What’s your “I did it!” moment when learning a new language?

Our SF team cheered the SFGiants on to a win this week during Korean Heritage Night with these epic Jung Hoo Lee jerseys! 🇰🇷

New languages dropping next month, any guesses? 👀

French, Italian, Japanese & Korean now on Speak joining English and Spanish. Start speaking with us today. speak.com/blog/new-langu…

The day has finally come! Speak is no longer an English language learning app. You can now learn 🇪🇸 Spanish, 🇫🇷French, 🇯🇵 Japanese, 🇰🇷Korean, and 🇮🇹Italian as well! And I'm not talking about memorizing vocab in a dopamine machine, I'm talking about good old fashioned spoken

Compared to legacy language learning "games", we're the interactive conversational experience you would imagine in an AI-native world. You wouldn’t expect to learn how to swim without getting in a pool, why would you expect to learn how to converse without having conversations?

Our Japanese course is a particularly great showcase for why people find Speak so unique. Normally you'd have to start with months of memorizing characters. But with Speak, you can feel *real* fluency in simple spoken conversations in minutes. It feels magical!

All of this is made possible by our AI-native technology platform which feels like it's crossing an inflection point right now - things are about to get crazy good. Check out the app at speak.com Apple for a role at speak.com/careers

Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today: - David Senra (Founders Podcast) - Katie Haun (Haun Ventures) - Justine Moore (a16z) - Connor Zwick (Speak) - Trey Holterman (Tennr) - James Cadwallader (Profound) - Anish Agarwal (Traversal) - Ayush S (Warp) - John Lee

"I went to South Korea and I saw skyscrapers that were filled with English classrooms. It was very clear the country was obsessed with learning English." - Connor Zwick (Co-Founder & CEO Speak) "We thought, the only way we're going to build something interesting is if we

Learn a new language 🤝 chance to win flights to practice it IRL. Join our 21-day challenge today to start speaking bit.ly/4ecE53q

"In language learning, consumers prefer specialized tools ... because they offer immersive and progressive experiences that today’s general AI assistants simply can’t deliver." 👏🏼

Full episode with Andrew Hsu on life as a child prodigy, being one of the first Thiel Fellows and building Speak Timestamps 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:05 - Started college at twelve 00:05:34 - Homeschooled by immigrant parents 00:08:30 - Three degrees by sixteen 00:19:53 - First

Working hard at becoming bilingual Connor Zwick

Monday morning listen 🎧

A special bit of silicon valley is that everyone is willing to help each other. Back in 2015, we pinged Andrej Karpathy for AI help and (within 2 min!) he offered to meet up w/ us the next day. One of a few formative convos that led to us doing AI research and starting Speak.

ICYMI 👇🏼 cnbc.com/video/2025/07/…

⚡ Speak is one of the hottest language learning apps out there, and they use Tramline to ship updates every single week! We teamed up with Sean Kim to share their experience of moving from a Git Flow-based process to a modern release platform → tramline.app/customers/speak 🔊