The first Spanish lesson written about your life.

Because writing your lessons costs real money on the day they are written, and a card is the only honest way to keep the price at €9 instead of padding it to cover people who were never going to stay. You get 7 days, which is 7 lessons if you are on daily, and that is more than the 3 lessons we used to give away. Nothing is charged until day 8, and we show you that exact date as soon as you sign up. Cancel at any point before it and you pay nothing at all: it is one button on your own settings page, every lesson links straight to it, and it takes about as long as reading this sentence.

One button on your settings page, and every lesson links straight to it, so it is two taps from any email we have ever sent you. Cancel inside the 7 days and you are never charged. Cancel later and you keep the lessons you have already paid for until that period runs out. No phone call, no form asking why, no offer to stay.

Because you already open your inbox every day. No new habit, no streak guilt, no notifications begging you back. A lesson is a short read with your coffee, and replying is something you already know how to do.

Any pair. You pick the language you speak and the language you want. Explanations arrive in YOUR language, targeting the mistakes its speakers actually make.

Because that is what makes the next one yours. One small question per lesson, never an interrogation: how the appointment went, what your dog is called, what your week looks like. Answer it in a line, or ignore it and just do the exercises. Nothing is required, and if you would rather it stopped asking for a while, say so and it stops. It never asks about your address, your money, your health or your paperwork.

You stay in charge of everything it remembers. Your settings page lists it all back to you in plain sentences, and you can delete any single note, or all of them, whenever you like. Delete something and the next lesson is written without it.

Just type it, or dictate it with your phone's microphone if that is easier. Your tutor reads text only, so a photo or a screenshot of your notebook will not get through. Keep the lesson quoted under your message, which your mail app does by default, and reply as long or as short as you like.

Nothing bad. Lessons keep arriving, just less personalized. There are no streaks and there is no guilt here. Reply again whenever you feel like it and it picks right back up.

No. A chatbot sits there waiting for you to open it, think of something to ask, and explain yourself again. This arrives on its own, every morning, already knowing you: your level, your dog's name, the mistake you made last Tuesday.

A language model does the writing, the same way a database does the remembering. That part is not the product. The product is everything around it: the memory that builds up reply by reply, the questions that make it build, and a tutor that turns up whether or not you felt like studying. Every lesson is written fresh for you, you never chat in real time, and the next one adapts to what you sent back.

I'm Milan. I publish Expat Daily, a daily news email read by 1,400+ expats in Spain. I started that one because I wanted it myself and nothing like it existed; it turned out a lot of other people wanted it too.

Cuéntame is the same story. The most common confession I hear from Expat Daily readers is "year three here, and my Spanish is still restaurant-level", and it was mine as well. So I built the tutor I wished existed, I use it every morning, and I am sharing it because I think it helps other people the same way Expat Daily did.