More than words.
A new language is a chance to expand your personality, your worldview, and your tastes. You don't just learn to say new things, you learn to notice new things.
About FluentFeast
Language tastes
better at the table.
FluentFeast exists because learning a language should be more than streaks and word lists. It's a chance to grow your personality, your worldview, experience new tastes, and to connect with the people who season them. We just happen to believe the kitchen is the best classroom.
The why
What we believe.
Connection first.
Vocabulary lists don't hug you back. Language is for connecting with people and appreciating their culture in all that entails, from food and history to art and community.
Culture you can taste.
Food is the most generous doorway into any culture. Every recipe carries a history, a region, a grandmother's opinion. Learn there, and the words stick.
The founder
Why I built this.
My language journey started a couple of weeks after meeting my now wife. So I know firsthand how hard it can be to carve out time to learn and to find material that's actually fun to learn with.
After a couple years of Duolingo, a couple of textbooks, and a lot of Brazilian music, I made my first trip to Brazil for my wedding, and to meet my wife's family. It was wonderful. But one area where my vocabulary fell flat was everything surrounding food, cooking, and drinks. I could order at a restaurant, compliment the food, but cooking and baking are some of my main hobbies (given FluentFeast, not really a surprise)and in the kitchen where I most wanted to connect was a struggle.
I flew home without buying a single local cookbook, my one regret of the trip. As I kept studying, the food, drink, and kitchen side of my learning kept being the gap nothing out there filled. I could use some recipe sites in portugese but with phrases and vocab I was unfamiliar with I wouldn't be able to actually cook with the recipes as I learned them.
So: FluentFeast. Combining my passion for language learning, my love of cooking, and the joy of watching my wife enjoy something I made (especially food from her home country of Brazil) I started building the app I wished I'd had, hoping to bring that same joy to others, strengthen connections, and help spark new ones.
Take the recipes in your own cookbooks or your favorite food blog into language lessons, or cook along with one of ours. Either way, every cooking session becomes an opportunity for connection, fun, and expression.
I hope you enjoy FluentFeast as much as I do. Thank you for letting me be a part of your language journey, building and using this myself has been a dream come true.
Preston
FluentFeast founder
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This feast is a potluck.
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