driftspeak
drift into the language of music & filmderiva en el idioma de la música y el cine

subtitles for your ears.

download on theapp store

for everyone who quit traditional apps and still cares. albums and movies, nine languages, samples free.

driftspeak
言葉が届くkotoba ga todokuthe word arrives
VARIETYmariya takeuchi
tap the pill above to hear the spanish sample
the shelf

the shelf holds what you already love.

your favourite albums and movies, plus guided paths from first words to whole conversations, across nine languages. a sentence in the target language. a sentence in english. then the target again, slower. every volume sits close to something you already love.

three ways to listen
albums and movies.
the album you already love, rebuilt track by track as bilingual chapters.
ladders.
from first words to whole conversations, a0 to c2. the sound and the meaning stacked so the eye never leaves the page.
maps.
one field of words at a time, placed by how near they live, drifting past while you rest.
own the shelf

keep what you drift into.

you didn't buy a course. you bought the quiet right to be near a language, for as long as you like. keep a volume forever, or hold the whole shelf for a year. for everyone who quit traditional apps and still cares.

own a volume£4.99$4.99€5.99CA$6.99AU$7.99yours forever
on the app · samples always free

one email when a new volume drops, and one when something new lands in the app. nothing else.

questions

what people ask.

what is this, exactly?

drifting through the albums and films you love, a line at a time, in their language and then in yours. a sentence in the target language, then the english, then the target language slower. that's the loop. guided paths take you from a0 to c2. you press play and drift; the meanings arrive without asking. no streaks. no quizzes. no flashcards. no levels. nothing to complete.

what makes this different from a language app or a phrasebook?

traditional apps are a game with points, streaks, drills. built for the moment you opened the app, not for the rest of your week. a phrasebook is a static translation layer with no rhythm to it. driftspeak is the rhythm. authored sentences, voiced in pairs, paced for half-attention. no streaks. no quizzes. no flashcards. no levels. no progress tracking. nothing to complete. think audible in bilingual form, not a language app with audio.

what languages?

nine languages today, more on the way. spanish, japanese, korean, mandarin, brazilian portuguese, french, italian, cantonese. and english, pointed the other way, for japanese speakers. seven of them also carry an a0→c2 ladder: one path through a language, from first words to deeper expression, with a phone-sized reader and its audio at every step. those seven carry a set of word-maps too, drifting you through one field of words at a time, no drills. buy a volume once, or take the whole shelf for a year. every volume, current and every one we publish next.

how much does it cost?

samples are free, no account needed. a single volume is £4.99$4.99€5.99CA$6.99AU$7.99, yours forever once you buy it. or take the whole shelf, every volume we've published and every one we publish next, for £35.99$39.99€39.99CA$49.99AU$59.99 a year. it all lives on the app store, so apple handles the payment and the receipts.

can i cancel?

the yearly, any time, from your apple subscriptions, one tap. a volume you bought outright is yours forever, so there's nothing to cancel. no retention flow, no "are you sure."