The actual problem
The hard part isn’t the words. It’s the first sentence.
You can know enough Turkish to follow what’s being said and still go quiet when it’s your turn. Not because the grammar is missing — because saying it badly, in front of people, costs something.
So you wait for a sentence you’re certain of. It doesn’t arrive. Someone kindly switches to English. And the one thing that would actually move you forward — writing a great deal of Turkish, much of it wrong — is the thing the situation won’t let you do.
You need somewhere to be bad at Turkish. Often. Where nobody is being polite about it.
What it does
Six things, all of which exist today
A conversation, not a course
One thread with Deniz, in Turkish, picking up where it left off. No units, no lessons, nothing to fall behind on. Deniz aims at a level you can answer and moves as you do.
A small fix you can ignore
Get something wrong and a quiet pill appears under your message. Open it for the correction and the reason, or leave it shut. You choose how much correcting you want, and you can change your mind.
Tap anything you didn’t follow
Any message from Deniz opens into a plain explanation in English or Dutch: what it means, the words that carry it, and how the sentence is put together.
Deniz remembers
Across conversations, not just inside one. What you were working on, who you mentioned, which words are still shaky. You don’t start from nothing every time.
Your own dictionary
Every word you meet is tracked — known, learning, still weak — and comes back later inside a different sentence, until recalling it stops being work.
Say when you’re stuck
A button in the message box: translate that, say it more simply, how do I answer this, how do I say this in Turkish. Asking for help doesn’t end the conversation.
Who you’re talking to
Deniz
Deniz is in their early thirties, grew up in İzmir on the Aegean coast, and works at a small design studio. Cooks a lot of olive-oil vegetables, cycles along the water, listens to Turkish pop. Warm and curious, dry rather than gushing.
That short list is the entire biography, and it’s enforced in the code rather than merely requested in a prompt: Deniz will never invent a shared history with you, and never claims to remember something you didn’t say. If Deniz asks how your sister’s wedding went, it’s because you mentioned your sister’s wedding.
Before you sign up
What Konuştum isn’t
Easier to read this now than to find it out on day three.
No speaking, no listening
It’s text. There is no audio, no voice, no pronunciation scoring. That may come later; it is not here now.
No course, no levels
No syllabus, no modules, no certificate at the end. If what you want is structure, this isn’t the thing.
Turkish only
One language. That’s the point of it.
No streaks, no guilt
Nothing resets to zero. No badge counts, no leaderboard, no email telling you you’re slipping. Disappear for a month and Deniz just says hello.
It’s a website
It works in your phone’s browser. There’s nothing to install and no app store involved.
It’s early
A handful of people are using it. I’d rather say that than pretend there’s a crowd here already.
Why this exists
I married into a Turkish family and spent an embarrassing number of dinners quiet, surrounded by people I love. I could follow most of it. I just couldn’t make myself start a sentence.
So I built the thing I wanted: somewhere to write bad Turkish every day, be told what was wrong without the conversation stopping, and gradually stop needing to be brave about it.
I’m not a Turkish teacher and I’m not fluent. I’m building this for my own problem, which is the honest reason to trust it and also the honest reason to check it works for you before paying.
— Tomas
Price
€5 a month
Fourteen days free first. Your card is taken at the start so it simply carries on if you want it to — nothing is charged until the free fortnight ends.
- Chat as much as you like — no credits, no lesson slots
- Everything on this page included; there is no higher tier
- Cancel in one click. No phone call, no offer to win you back
- If you cancel, it keeps working until the period you paid for ends
You’ll sign in first. Card details are entered on Stripe’s own page and never reach us.
Questions
I know about five words of Turkish. Is it too early?
No. Deniz opens with something you can answer and builds from what you actually write, rather than from a placement test.
How long a day?
Ten minutes most days does more than an hour on a Sunday. The conversation is simply there when you open it — it doesn’t need a slot in your calendar.
Does it teach grammar?
Only inside your own sentences. When a correction needs explaining it explains, and you can open any of Deniz’s messages to see how it’s built. There is no grammar curriculum behind it and nothing that tracks your grammar over time.
Can I practise speaking or listening?
Not yet. Konuştum is text today — no audio in either direction, and no pronunciation feedback.
Isn’t this just a general AI assistant speaking Turkish?
You can ask any assistant to speak Turkish, and it will. The difference shows up over weeks: it doesn’t remember you between sessions, it drifts toward a middling difficulty whatever yours is, and it corrects you by interrupting. Whether that difference is worth five euros is a reasonable thing to find out during the free fortnight.
Can I cancel?
Any time, in one click, from Settings. No phone call and no one trying to talk you out of it. You keep access until the period you’ve already paid for ends.