Learn a language the way you'd text a friend.
A cat texts you on WhatsApp, every day — short messages, voice notes, and real recommendations from where it lives. It learns your level and your interests from talking to you, and corrects you the way a friend would: in the flow of conversation, not with a red pen.
Daily messages
A text, a question, a voice note — whenever it fits your day, no app to open.
Voice notes
Hear the language spoken, not just written — every plan includes some.
Real culture
Films, music and places your cat actually knows — never invented on the spot.
Adapts to you
Your level and interests come from conversation, not a form.
Pick a country and a cat
Not just "Portuguese" — European or Brazilian Portuguese, each with its own cat, its own accent, its own daily life. Six personalities per language, from a night-owl city cat to a patient scholar.
Say hi on WhatsApp — that's the whole sign-up
Tap a link, send the first message, done. No app to install, no account to create, no card to enter.
It learns you as you go
A couple of quick questions up front — what you already speak, why you're learning — then your cat picks up your level and interests from what you actually say. No quiz, no re-onboarding.
You set how much of a safety net you want
A dial, not a level: from "explain everything in your own language" to "no translation at all, ever" — move it any time, and it slides up on its own as you go if you're on a plan.
Corrections happen mid-conversation
No grading, no red pen. Your cat folds the fix into its next reply — "you'd say it this way here" — and moves on. You can always ask why and get a real answer.
Built by a linguist, not a growth team
Street Cat is a small project, made by one person who studies language for a living and wanted daily practice that didn't feel like homework. Every cat's voice, every correction, and the choice to work by country instead of by language code comes out of that background — not an engagement playbook.
There's more of that thinking written up on Substack — most of what Street Cat believes about how languages actually work started as something worth thinking through there first.
A language is never just a language
"Learn Portuguese" hides a real question: which Portuguese? The one spoken in Lisbon and the one spoken in São Paulo carry different words, different accents, different daily rhythms — close enough to confuse a textbook, different enough to matter in a real conversation. Street Cat starts from a country or region, not a language code, so every cat's lessons carry the context of one real place instead of an average of several.
That's also why a cat brings up the music, films and things actually happening where it's from, instead of sticking to vocabulary lists — real recommendations, never invented on the spot. Talking about a song someone actually loves does more for a language than another flashcard deck.