Answer your family in their language
Your parents talk to you in Spanish, Korean or Hindi, and you answer in English. FluenText turns the family chat into practice: text back in their language, and a built-in coach quietly fixes your grammar and explains why.
Sound familiar?
Millions of families speak two languages across one kitchen table. The language usually stops with the kids — not because they cannot understand it, but because they never got to practice using it.
You grew up hearing it
Your parents talk to you in their language and you answer in English. You understand almost everything; it is replying that feels hard. FluenText gives you a low-pressure place to start answering back, one text at a time.
You want to text your grandparents
Abuela, Halmeoni, Nani, Bà — they would love a message in their own language, and you want the respectful forms right. Set the chat to polite and the coach checks your register as well as your grammar.
You married into the family chat
The family group chat moves fast, and not in your language. Tap any message to translate it, tap a word for its meaning, and join in when you are ready.
Built for texting home
The same messaging app you would use with anyone, with a language coach in every family chat.
The coach corrects you, so family does not have to
Every message you send in the family language is checked. Mistakes come back as a side-by-side correction with a short explanation in your own language, with no awkward “actually, it’s…” at the dinner table.
Translation in both directions
Tap any message to read it in your own language. And when you slip back into English, your parents can tap to read it in theirs.
Get the respect level right
Many family languages change with who you are talking to: usted with your abuela, 존댓말 with your parents, aap with your elders. Set a chat to polite or formal and the coach flags casual forms that do not fit.
Decode the phrases you never learned
Tap a word for its meaning in context, or tap Explain on a message to break down an idiom or a regional expression — privately, without having to ask.
The whole family in one thread
Group chats work like the family thread you already have. Set the chat’s language to the one your family speaks, and every message you send there becomes practice.
Rehearse before you send
Nervous about texting your dad in Vietnamese? Warm up with an AI practice partner at your level, or check a draft privately before anyone sees it.
It works the other way, too
If a parent or grandparent is the one learning — say, practicing English to keep up with the grandkids — set that chat to English instead. Each chat practices one language, so every relationship can go at its own pace.
Questions from families
Text home in their language
Free on iOS, with 25 coached messages a day. Start with one message tonight.