Comhrá

Most language apps either drill words in isolation or leave you writing into a void. Comhrá is one question a day that everyone answers in Irish. You write something you’d actually say, get it corrected with each change explained in plain English, and only then see how everyone else answered the same prompt.

The conversation is gone at midnight, Dublin time. Post, and you get another day to save the sentences worth keeping — yours or someone else’s. Those become practice cards: the English on one side, the Irish written from memory, brought back sooner when you miss them. Losing the day’s chat is fine. Losing the phrase you meant to remember is not.

It’s a small project, but it’s the one that forced me to decide what a language app should throw away, and what it should make you say again.