Coucou is a personal AI French tutor in Telegram. Tell it why you’re learning, and every lesson is built around that — then it picks up where you left off.
Opens Telegram · Free during early access
No card · Usually approved within a few hours
Short check-ins a few times a day, at times that suit you, built from your days: shops, paperwork, work, your street. No textbook lines like le chat est sur la table (“the cat is on the table”).
living in France
Monday · 09:00
You said you’re going to the mairie today. Try it: tell the clerk you’ve come to pick up a form.
Bonjour, je viens chercher un formulaire.
Perfect — polite and natural. Now: they ask for proof of address. What do you say?
Past the basics? Say so. It moves on to sounding precise and natural at your level (tone, formality, linking ideas) instead of re-teaching what you know.
ten years in France, aiming for C1
Tuesday · 20:15
I’m past the basics. Give me something harder.
Fair. Concede a point, then push back — the way you would in a meeting:
Certes, c’est plus cher. Il n’en reste pas moins que c’est plus rapide.
Admittedly, it’s more expensive. Even so, it’s faster.
Your turn: push back on a colleague’s idea at work, the same way.
It replies to what you meant first, then shows your own sentence with just the mistake struck through, and the whole thing fixed. One useful fix at a time, not a wall of red.
looking for work
Wednesday · 18:40
Hier, je suis envoyé trois candidatures.
Three applications — good week. One small fix — with envoyer, it’s j’ai:
Hier, crossed out: je suis envoyé trois candidatures.
Hier, corrected: j’ai envoyé trois candidatures.
Yesterday I sent three applications.
Follow a CEFR roadmap (the levels official exams use) across listening, reading, speaking and writing. Ask for a mock round whenever you want to check your progress.
Example: A1 to B1 done, working on B2.
aiming for B2, for citizenship
Thursday · 09:00
Mock round, listening, task 1 of 4. Listen, then tell me: what is the caller asking you to bring?
Voice message · listening task
Un justificatif de domicile et mon passeport.
Noted. Task 2 next — full feedback after the round.
New words come with a respelling that makes sense at a glance, and audio when it helps. Prefer IPA? Just ask. Reply by voice note or text, whichever you’re up for.
coming back to school French
Friday · 09:00
I did French at school, twenty years ago. I can read IPA, if that helps.
Something only counts once you’ve used it on your own, correctly, on two different days and in two different sentences. Each night Coucou plans tomorrow from what landed and what slipped, and /progress shows everything you’ve built.
beginner, meeting her partner’s family
Saturday · 16:00
Dinner with your partner’s parents tomorrow. Make them feel welcome — in your own words, no peeking.
Ça me fait plaisir de vous accueillir chez nous !
Second time on your own, on a different day, in a new sentence. That one goes on your progress page as learned.
Sunday · 10:15
No. Start from zero, or come back to French you learned years ago. Coucou finds a useful place to begin from your first few messages.
No — it’s an AI tutor, built by one person who is learning French too. It explains and practises with you, but its feedback can sometimes be wrong.
In Telegram. Text or send voice notes; there’s no separate app. You’ll need a Telegram account.
Yes. Tell it the times you want, fewer check-ins, or a pause. You can also message it whenever you feel like practising.
Free during early access, no card required. That’s the current early-access offer, not a promise it will always be free.
You’ll need it: Coucou lives there. Telegram is a free messaging app for iPhone, Android and desktop, and setting it up takes a minute.
Your conversation is stored privately so your tutor can remember you. OpenAI processes replies and voice, including voice-note transcription; Microsoft Azure provides pronunciation scores when available. Send /export_my_data for a copy, or /delete_my_data to request deletion of your Coucou learning data and account. You’ll be asked to confirm. This doesn’t delete your Telegram chat history.
Open Coucou in Telegram and tap Start to request access. Each request is approved by hand, usually within a few hours, and then your first lesson starts.
Your turn
Opens Telegram · Free during early access
No card · Usually approved within a few hours