Salotto
A live Italian conversation room with bilingual captions running underneath, so you can talk before you feel ready.
Speaking is where a learner’s actual goal lives, and it is also where most people stall for years. Salotto is a room you join to talk in Italian, with captions running underneath in both languages. The captions are the safety net: you can keep going when a word drops out from under you instead of stopping the conversation to look it up.
It belongs to the same system as Paroletta and Filotto. Talking produces words, and the words you reach for out loud are strong evidence of what you actually hold, in a way a multiple-choice answer never is. The places where you stall and switch back to English are evidence too, of the opposite kind. Both go onto the same known-word list the other products write to and read from.
Versions are called Marks. Each Mark changes exactly one file, the recogniser, so two sessions can be compared without guessing which of a dozen changes moved the result.
Log: Salotto
1 entry- 22 Aug 2026 note One known-word list per person
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