Parla is a subscription that gives you an AI companion on Telegram who texts with you most days in the language you want to keep, corrects you inside the reply rather than in a report afterwards, and writes you a letter every Sunday about how the week went. It costs 14 euro a month or 99 euro a year, VAT included, after a free week of seven days that needs no card. It is for someone who can already hold a simple conversation, roughly A2 and up, and not for a complete beginner.
It helps to say what kind of thing that is, because it is not the usual kind. There is nothing to install and no course to open. The whole of it happens inside Telegram, which is already on your phone and your desktop, where voice notes work well and there is nothing new to add. You pick a companion, the companion writes, you write back, and everything else in this post is a description of what happens around those two acts.
Each language has two companions, each with a name, an age and a city of their own, and a language that is not open yet has a waitlist that writes to you on the day it opens. They are AI, they say so in their opening messages, and they never pretend otherwise. What they remember is what you have told them, which is a different thing from being people.
What it costs
14 euro a month, or 99 euro a year, VAT included. Before either of those, every account gets one free week, once, starting from your first message. No card is needed to begin it, and nothing is charged when it ends.
One subscription covers every language and every companion, including the ones added later, so talking to Marco as well as Giulia is not a second bill, and a second language will not be either. You can pause for two or four weeks, or cancel, from one screen. There is no email to write and no call to make. Cancelling stops the next charge and does not refund the current period, which is worth knowing before you cancel on the second day of a month.
How a correction reaches you
You pick a companion, and the first messages are the companion’s: one of them says the companion is AI. After that you answer when it suits you, in text or in a voice note, on the same app you already use for everything else. There is no session to book and no hour to keep free.
A companion may also open a conversation unprompted, and that is fenced on purpose. It happens only in a chat you have already written in and never inside your quiet hours. A new conversation from one companion starts at most once a day and four times a week; beyond that, a companion may write to wish you luck with something you mentioned was coming, or to ask afterwards how it went, and the weekly letter comes on Sunday, or on Monday if Sunday was missed. If one of those new conversations arrives and you say nothing, the companion nudges once and never again, and only when you have switched follow-ups on in settings, which stays off until you do.
Every message you send is read for patterns rather than for typos. That distinction is the whole design. A typo is noise, and a pattern is the thing that has been quietly costing you the same half second for two years. At most two patterns a week are raised, and they are raised inside the conversation, the way a friend would rephrase what you said and carry on talking. Never a red pen, never a list at the end of the day, never a score. If you put a sentence in the wrong tense, the reply uses the right one and asks you something else, so the correction and the conversation arrive together.
Voice notes work both ways. You can talk instead of typing, and the companion talks back, which is the part that gets your mouth moving rather than only your hands.
What the Sunday letter says
Every Sunday a letter arrives, one for each language you are learning, with a PDF beside it. It counts the week: the days you talked, the minutes, the new words, the words that came back, your sentence length, your level, and the two patterns to work on.
The letter is written to you rather than about you, and it is where the numbers live. Nothing asks you for them during the week. You answer when you feel like it, and on Sunday you find out what that came to, which is the right order.
What it is not
It is not a course. There is no path to work through, so nothing arrives in a fixed order and nothing is unlocked. Everyday conversation is all a companion does, which means a companion is not a grammar reference and not an exam coach. A companion will sometimes be wrong. Treat a correction as a suggestion and ask about anything that looks odd; that is the right thing to do with an answer that looks odd, and occasionally the companion will be the one who was mistaken.
It is also not a beginner’s tool. Roughly A2 and up is the floor, which means you can already hold a simple conversation, and companions shorten their sentences to match you rather than starting from nothing. If you have never studied the language, this is not yet the right place to start.
Your messages build the companion’s memory of you and nothing else. From one settings page you can download what the companion knows, make the companion forget, or delete everything, and those three are separate on purpose: forgetting is not the same as leaving, and leaving should not require a conversation with anybody.
And there is no person involved, at any point. That is both the reason it is cheap enough to do every day and a thing you should know before you decide.
