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PhraseMates Learn a language. Meet a friend. Expand your world.

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PhraseMates

Learn a language. Meet a friend. Expand your world.

What is PhraseMates?• Phrasebook with

50,000 phrases in 6 languages.

• Community of language enthusiasts who want to meet people from around the world.

What can you do with PhraseMates?

• Browse a big database of phrases.

• Star favorites to personalize.

• Add your own and share.

• Browse other users and search for “mates”.

• Ask mates to translate phrases.

• Gain Karma by participating.

Author
Browse… and find quickly keyword. Find things; rock climbing, boating, art;, manufacturing, medicine.Star… to create a personalized phrasebook.Add phrases and share them with the community.Help mates translate into your native language and gain karma.

What problem does PhraseMates solve?

• People want to communicate with people with shared interests from other cultures.

• PhraseMates brings people together through language and shared interests.

“People don’t want to buy a

quarter-inch drill. They want a

quarter-inch hole.”Theodore Levitt

Author
don’t want language apps, dictionaries, lesson books. People learn languages for school, travel, business, fun. That’s not easy. You have to travel, avoid tourist traps, speak well enough to engage locals and have something to talk about.

• Sebastien is in seventh grade. • Learning Spanish but finds

homework boring.• He searches for silly phrases.• Antonio, from Costa Rica,

contributed one.• Spanish just got real.

Author
Sebastien is in seventh grade. He is learning Spanish but he gets bored doing homework. To have some fun, he searches PhraseMates for sentences including the word "fart". To his pleasant surprise, he finds several. He notices that one of the phrases was shared by a seventh grader from Costa Rica. Sebastien is going to Costa Rica on a class trip! He contacts the student to see if they can meet up. Spanish just got real.

• Vanessa studies Italian at University.

• Going to Italy on summer holidays.

• Creates a custom phrasebook.• Angelo is a student at Accademia

dell'Arte.

• Elon is starting a car company.

• Going to car show in Stuttgart.

• Searches for greetings in German.

• Katharina manufactures car parts.

• Marc is a young professional from New York.

• He decides to do an MBA in Paris. • He has to learn French fast. • One year later he is fluent.

MISSION

Learn a language. Make a friend. Expand your world.

Team

UsersBring to Life

All Languages

Chris Cirefice Developer

French Japanese

Victoria SfrisoLinguist

Spanish French Italian

Alli FlowersCustomer Success

French

Marc BolhStoryteller

French Swedish

DesignerUser Experience

Surprise Us

You tell me

• How can we make this app

magical?

• How would you use it?• What would you be more likely to

pay for?Offline access to phrases.Extended access to mates.

How can you help?

• Join beta program (Android).

• Introduce us to designers, developers, marketers that love language, travel, people.