Galician · Galego · AI speaking partner
Galician, spoken like it is at home.
Galician is understood by anyone who knows Spanish or Portuguese and spoken well by few of them. Learners are the diaspora in Argentina, Switzerland and Britain, teachers and public workers who need the certificate, and partners who want to talk to the avós.
Your AI partner talks with you in Galician daily, corrects the Spanish that leaks in and the pronoun placement on screen, and keeps going.
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Why Galician is hard to speak
What stops learners talking, and what fixes it.
Not Spanish
"Grazas" not "gracias", "hoxe" not "hoy", and the open vowels of the north-west. Each slip caught on screen.
Pronoun placement
"Díxome" (he told me) with the pronoun after the verb where Spanish puts it before. A habit learned by speaking.
The sounds: x, open and closed vowels
"Xunta" with a "sh", "ó" and "o" as different vowels. Word Mode has you say them back until they are Galician.
Ways to practise Galician
6 ways to speak Galician on TalkNative.
- Build ConfidenceTen minutes a day with a coach who talks Galician with you and corrects you on screen without interrupting.
- Real ScenariosTwenty-three real-life scenes in Galician: order, check in, complain, interview, with a character who pushes back.
- Call ModePhone calls in Galician with AI characters who pick up, talk back and remember your last call.
- Start from ZeroSixty short spoken lessons from your first hello, taught in the language you already speak.
- Word ModeThree new Galician words a day, each said in a sentence of your own and corrected out loud.
- DebateArgue a motion in Galician against an AI rival and get judged on your arguments, not just your grammar.
Scenes worth trying in Galician
Practise the conversation before it happens.
- Grocery ShoppingThe market in Santiago or Vigo: fish, prices, the exchange.With Priya, shop assistant
- School Parent MeetingA teacher and your child, in Galician.With Ms. Alvarez, class teacher
- At a RestaurantOrdering and the bill.With Luca, waiter
- Job InterviewPublic-sector jobs in Galicia ask for spoken Galician.With Daniel, hiring manager
Five phrases to say today
The Galician that rescues a conversation.
Say each one out loud now. Then say it to your AI partner, who will tell you how it sounded.
- 1Pode repetir, por favor?
Could you repeat, please?
- 2Non o entendo de todo.
I don't quite understand.
- 3Que me recomenda?
What do you recommend?
- 4Canto custa?
How much does it cost?
- 5Quería reservar unha mesa para dous.
I'd like to book a table for two.
Questions
Before you start speaking Galician
Does it help with the CELGA exam?
For the oral part, daily conversation with corrections builds what the exam assesses. TalkNative does not run the official CELGA.
Is Galician just Portuguese with a Spanish accent?
They share a medieval root and much vocabulary; Galician has its own sounds, spelling and forms, and speakers hear the difference at once. Learn the one your family speaks.
Are the corrections explained in my own language?
Yes. You choose the language you already speak at setup (English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and 50 more), and explanations in Start from Zero and Word Mode come in it while the practice stays in Galician.
Is Galician practice free?
Every module has a free taste with no card. Full access is a one-time payment for 30 days.
Your first Galician conversation takes ten minutes.
Out loud, corrected, in any of 57 languages. No card to start.