Gorgo is a language tool built for different brains.
Gorgo was built for us—the people who get bored by drills and streaks, but remember the strange thing forever.
Surreal images and phrases that stay with you the way art does—strange, sticky, unforgettable.
Meet Gorgo
Gorgo isn’t like other language apps… because those didn’t work for us.
Designed for people who learn differently
For most of my life, I believed I was bad at language. It wasn’t inability, it was mismatch.
I built Gorgo because I needed something different.
Our brains can’t store language simply because it is handed over. Especially if you’re neurodiverse. Language needs to feel alive to stick. Not gamification, not streaks. Strange little worlds where words become memories, because they get inside you rather than sit at the surface.
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Art is memorable for a reason
Our brains don’t hold onto drills and flashcards—they hold onto images, textures, places, feelings. Art has always known this, but science does too—that memory thrives on multi-sensory experience: sight, sound, place.
We believe art, especially strange art, can makes language memorable—because when you encounter a phrase inside a scene so strange it refuses to leave, the words likely stay too.
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It’s not really for kids
Gorgo was designed for people who get bored with kid-coded language and child-centric characters. Gorgo centers duality—language, yes, but maybe also art. History. The bizarre.
The 1000 word framework
Every language is built on a core vocabulary of about 1,000 words. Learn those well, and you cover 85% of everyday speech.
Gorgo uses that framework as its backbone—but instead of teaching you “cat” and “dog” in isolation, we weave them into strange, unforgettable sentences. This way, you learn in context, not in lists. Most apps stop at “two beers please.” Cute at first, but dead ends fast. Gorgo skips the tourist plateau and jumps to meaningful, real phrases—rooted in the 1,000 most-used words but designed for B1–B2 learners.
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We skip the tourist plateau
Most apps trap you at the beginner phrases—colors, animals, ordering coffee. You give up before you break through.
Real fluency starts at B2—not because the words are more complicated, but because you begin speaking the way you would in real life—with connective tissue.
We focus on monologues you begin to stitch together. Bit by bit, you learn. You start to tell stories. To hold opinion. You still learn how to order a coffee, but maybe you’re speaking to a waterfall rather than a waiter.
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Is this AI?
My background is in art and design, and I am a writer as my “night job.” I built tools to help me do this as a scale I’d never be able to achieve myself, but in a way that quality, accuracy, beauty and consideration are at the center.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours on the imagery, surreal phrases and storytelling. All French is translated and audited by French speaking, paid humans.
I see AI as an incredible tool to bring what is in my head to life—an art form in itself, when treated with intention.
How Gorgo Works
No leaderboards. No quizzes. Just you, surreal art, and phrases you’ll actually remember.
What does Beta mean here?
A: It means we’re still evolving. Learning. The lessons work, the images linger, but the shape isn’t finished. If you’re here now, you’re helping me find its edges.
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Early Invitation
I built Gorgo because I needed something different. If you feel the same, leave your name. I’ll send early invitations soon.
Gorgo isn’t a promise, it’s a hypothesis.
Can sentences, paired with images strange enough to linger, allow the language to stay as well?
French is just the start. Spanish and German are next, maybe Mandarin. Japanese? Absolutely.
