Canary
Learn languages with music, practice with people
603 followers
Learn languages with music, practice with people
603 followers
Canary is a language learning app powered by music. Pick a song, see real-time translations, save words to your vocabulary list, sing karaoke to practice pronunciation, take quizzes on songs, and practice with others!
SigniFi
The karaoke feature is a genius hook. Singing forces you to mimic the native cadence. 🎤 Regarding the pronunciation practice: does the app just play the lyrics, or is there an AI scoring layer that listens to my voice and tells me if my accent is off?
Canary
@yoang_loo Yesss that’s exactly how I see it, it’s way more fun to work on pronunciation by singing than by just repeating sentences.
And good call yes AI feedback is definitely on our roadmap. It’s a bit more challenging with singing recordings, but not impossible.
SigniFi
800k followers is insane validation! You clearly found a gap in the market. 📈 Since you started with French content, is the app currently optimized best for French learners, or is the experience equally good for other languages like Spanish or Japanese right now?
Canary
@yoang_loo I would say it's pretty much the same experience, only difference is that I know more french songs haha so easier for me to choose the good ones for song of the week feature
Extrovert
Sounds super cool and unique! I need to learn German this year, so bookmarking this one for sure =)
Canary
@oleg_sobolev haha lucky you German is one of the 5 languages we started with!
Do you also offer some sort of gamification in the process of learning!
Canary
@anishsharma Yes, but it’s something we need to do better.
Right now we have daily and weekly leaderboards based on song quizzes, plus badges for milestones. It's cool, but we know it needs to be more fun and engaging, and that’s something I want to focus on!
Very cool @bengue_z . I am hoping to become fluent in Spanish this year and also play guitar and love music, so this seems like a great and super fun way to learn. I am going to sign up today. Will let you know my thoughts! =).
Canary
@johnston please do! And I also want to learn spanish this year haha
Triforce Todos
I like that this didn’t start as a startup idea, but as something people genuinely enjoyed. Those usually turn into the best products.
Canary
@abod_rehman Thanks Abdul - yes hopefully it will turn into something people love using !
Makers Page
Music was how I picked up half my Spanish (shoutout to old Shakira). Real-time lyrics + quizzes sounds fun. Curious how you handle song rights and accents in karaoke? I’ll give the beta a spin tonight. Could be great for my rusty French.
Canary
@alexcloudstar hahah Love that yes Shakira is the best Spanish teacher.
On rights: we don’t host or distribute music files. We rely on YouTube videos for playback and build the learning experience (lyrics, quizzes, karaoke) around that, so we’re careful with licensing.
On accents: karaoke is currently about active practice, singing, recording yourself, and mimicking native cadence. We don’t score accents with AI yet, but pronunciation feedback is on our roadmap.
Hope you enjoy the beta! Let me know if you have any feedback!