Stop being the one they switch to English for.

Kielo is where you rehearse the conversation before you have it, read real news at your level, and keep the words you’re about to lose.

What are you learning?

FinnishI live in Finland SwedishI live in Sweden, or in Finland

Free to start, on iPhone and Android.

Kielo home screen with the daily plan, review and the Everyday Finnish course

The app as it is

Six screens, nothing mocked up.

Every screenshot below is the real app, and the note under each says exactly what is on it.

Speak

Rehearse the conversation before you have to have it.

A scenario, a partner who answers at speaking speed, and a note afterwards on what to fix.

Kielo conversation scenario: Musiikista puhuminen, A1, 3 minutes

What is on the screenMusiikista puhuminen · A1 · 3 min · culture, leisure: one of the scenarios in the app.

Read

Real news, with every word one tap from an explanation.

Articles simplified to your level. Tap a word and the grammar is explained in the sentence you met it in.

Kielo reader showing a Finnish news story with the passive voice explained

What is on the screenseurataan → passiivi, A2: explained inside a news story, not in a table.

Watch

Short videos with the vocabulary on the frame.

Sound, glossary, save, next, all without leaving the clip.

KieloTV video with a Finnish word glossed on the frame

What is on the screentunnelma (noun) → atmosphere, glossed on the frame it was spoken in.

Review

It brings back the words you are about to lose.

Recognise it first, produce it from memory second. The queue is built from what you actually met.

Kielo review question on the Finnish verb hukkua with four options

What is on the screenhukkua · Recognise → Recall: the review queue, not a sample deck.

Path

A course underneath, so the practice adds up.

Chapters, not a feed. You can see where you are and what the next lesson is before you tap it.

What is on the screenEveryday Finnish · chapters and lessons to A2 · next: Sorry & You’re Welcome.

Home

Your day on one screen.

The daily plan, the words that are fading, and where you are in your course.

What is on the screenA test account’s real home: its words, its fading reviews, its lessons. Nothing invented.

Why people open Kielo

Does any of this sound like your week?

They always switch to English when I try.Rehearse the exchange with a partner who keeps going in the language, then see what to fix.Speak

There’s a letter on the table I can’t read.Read real texts at your level, with every word one tap from an explanation.Read

I sit quiet at my partner’s family table.Short clips of everyday speech, with the words on the frame, so listening comes first.Watch

My application has a date on it.A course underneath and reviews that bring back what you are about to forget, every day.Path and Review

Made by two immigrants in Finland.

Even after years of study, speaking the language in daily life was the hard part. Kielo is the practice we wanted: real language, at our level, and someone to rehearse with.

Read our story

From the blog

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19 Aug 2026A1-A2· Reading Finnish Signs and Labels

Mitä täällä lukee? Deciphering Finnish Public Notices

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18 Aug 2026A1-A2· Basic Grammar Tips

Crafting Clearer Sentences: A Guide to Finnish Adverbs

Master Finnish adverbs to express yourself clearly! Our guide helps beginners enhance sentences. Start speaking better today!

Rehearse your next conversation tonight.

Free to start. Kielo Plus removes the daily limits.