Wrong: I am agree with you. Correct: I agree with you.
Sermovo is a voice coach for Turkish speakers learning to speak English. It corrects you while you talk and explains every mistake in Turkish.
For people who read and understand English but freeze when it’s their turn to speak: in meetings, in job interviews, in everyday life abroad.
The app is in development. Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.
Haftalık toplantı
Canlı- Coach: So, how did the client call go yesterday?
- You: It went well. They said they are agree with our timeline.
- Correction card:
Fiil önünde gereksiz “be”
they are agree
they agree
Türkçe açıkla
“Hemfikirler” diye düşününce araya are giriyor. Agree zaten fiil, be almaz: They agree.
- Coach: Good to hear. Did they say anything about the budget?
You understand it. Speaking is where it stalls.
You learned the grammar at school. You read English email without trouble and follow most conversations. Then someone turns to you, and the sentence falls apart halfway through.
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In meetings
You know what you want to say, but you build it in Turkish first and translate. By the time it’s ready, the topic has moved on.
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In interviews
The answer you memorised for “Tell me about yourself” holds up until the first follow-up question.
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On a video call
Face to face, gestures carry you. On a call, the faster the other person talks, the quieter you get.
What’s missing is rarely vocabulary or rules. It’s speaking out loud, regularly, with someone who points out the mistake the moment you make it.
How it works
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Talk
Pick a scenario, such as a weekly meeting, a job interview or a client call, and talk with the coach out loud. Have a free-flowing conversation, or take turns with push-to-talk.
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See the correction
When a sentence goes wrong, a card appears during the conversation: what you said, the correct version, and the type of mistake.
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Read why, in Turkish
Tap “Türkçe açıkla” on the card for an explanation in Turkish: the rule, and why a Turkish speaker tends to build the sentence that way.
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Practise the same mistake again
Your mistakes are counted by type. Your three most frequent ones stay on the home screen, and the coach brings them up on purpose in later conversations. A short daily task gets you talking again the next day.
Fiil önünde gereksiz “be”
They are agree with our timeline.
They agree with our timeline.
Türkçe açıkla
Türkçede “hemfikirler” diye düşününce cümleye are ekleniyor. Oysa agree zaten bir fiil ve be almaz. Aynısı I agree, she agrees için de geçerli.
Every conversation sets up the next one
The coach doesn’t just fix the sentence you said. It keeps track of your mistakes and builds your next conversations around them.
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Day one
Find your level
A two-minute chat with the coach, ending with your CEFR level, your strengths and what to work on.
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After every conversation
Your mistakes in one summary
Corrections, new words, and a button to practise the same mistakes straight away.
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When a mistake keeps coming back
The coach goes after it
Mistakes are counted by type; the frequent ones turn into short drills and shape your next conversations.
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Over the weeks
See the change
Daily speaking time, your streak and how your level moves, on one screen.
Written around the mistakes Turkish speakers make
Most speaking apps give every learner the same feedback, whatever their first language. Sermovo’s error catalogue is built from the mistakes Turkish speakers make again and again in spoken English. Each one comes with an explanation in Turkish and a short drill.
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Wrong: I have meeting at three. Correct: I have a meeting at three.
Turkish says “toplantım var” with no word for “a”. English needs a or an before a singular countable noun.
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Wrong: He go to the office on Mondays. Correct: He goes to the office on Mondays.
With he, she and it, present simple verbs take -s. It’s the ending that slips most easily in speech.
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Wrong: I am working here since 2019. Correct: I ’ve been working here since 2019.
Turkish uses the present tense for “2019’dan beri burada çalışıyorum”. English needs the present perfect for something that started in the past and is still going.
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Wrong: I very like this project. Correct: I really like this project.
Turkish “çok seviyorum” uses the same word for “very” and “a lot”. In English, very can’t modify a verb: say really like or like … a lot.
Scenarios
Most scenarios come from working life. Each has a level range and target phrases, and the coach adapts to your level and your frequent mistakes.
- Work
- Weekly meetings, client calls, questions after a presentation, salary talks
- Interviews
- Introducing yourself, walking through your experience, interviewing with a foreign company
- Everyday
- Meeting people and small talk
- Life abroad
- Everyday conversations at the doctor’s, at school and at work
Your voice recordings aren’t kept
Only text stays. Your voice is processed during the conversation and not stored. What remains is a written transcript and your corrections.
Nothing is sent without asking. Before your first conversation, a consent screen shows which AI services receive your voice and text. If you say no, nothing is sent. You can withdraw consent in settings at any time.
Where it goes is written down. Which AI services receive your voice and text, and for what, is listed one by one in the privacy policy.
Deleting is up to you. You can delete your account from inside the app. Your conversations, corrections and progress go with it.
Who’s building it
I’ve been building software for more than three years. I’m making Sermovo for people who read and understand English but get stuck when it’s their turn to speak. I know what it’s like to sit in a meeting, build the sentence in Turkish first and translate it in your head.
What I want is for speaking out loud to become something you do every day, without ever feeling embarrassed.
Ümüt Günaydın, founder
Early access list
When the app opens for testing, people on this list hear first, by email. Your address is used for nothing else.
