You made the point. They asked you to say it again. By the third time, the room had moved on. It is rarely your grammar — it is a handful of specific sounds, and nobody has ever told you which ones. Nunzio does, one at a time.
“The th, caro mio. Tongue between the teeth. Let it breathe.” Nunzio, your operatic Italian uncle
No lessons, no theory, no streak you have to defend. You read, he listens, he tells you the one thing worth fixing.
Each sentence is built to put particular sounds under pressure — the ones English speakers actually trip over. Five of them make a session.
The app records you, then scores every individual sound against what the sentence called for. Not the sentence as a whole — each sound in it, separately.
Each word is coloured by the sounds inside it, and Nunzio names the single one worth your next ten minutes — with what to change in your mouth to get it.
“You scored 78%” tells you nothing you can act on. Nunzio works at the level of the individual sound, because that is the level at which pronunciation actually changes. He will tell you the vowel in ship is coming out as the one in sheep, show you which words it spoiled, and give you the mouth position that separates them.
Every sound is shown the way you would say it — “ih” as in ship — not as a phonetic symbol you would have to learn first.
Browse all 40 sounds he listens for — what each one is, what tends to come out instead, and his fix for it.
A generic list of common errors is half irrelevant to any given person — you end up drilling sounds you already say perfectly well. Nunzio scores what you actually said, in the sentence you just read, and leaves alone everything you already get right. The practice you get is the practice you need.
The speech model runs locally. Your recording is scored on the phone and deleted straight after — it never reaches a server, because there is no server.
There is no login and no analytics. Your progress lives in a small database on the phone and disappears the moment you uninstall.
Once the model is downloaded, everything works with the aeroplane mode on — on a train, in a basement, on a flight.
Nunzio — English Accent Coach is out now on Google Play, and coming to the App Store. No adverts, and nothing about you is ever sold — there is nothing collected to sell.
Questions in the meantime: support@nunzio.cc.
No. The speech model runs on your phone: your recording is scored there and deleted as soon as the score is produced. It is never sent to a server — there is no server.
Yes. Once the speech model is downloaded, everything — recording, scoring, coaching — works with no connection at all: on a train, in a basement, on a flight.
No. Every sound is shown the way you would say it — “ih” as in ship, “th” as in think — with the phonetic symbol kept as small print for those who want it.
The scoring reference is General American, but the work is on the core sounds of English that carry across accents. Nunzio never guesses where you are from — he only hears which sounds came out, and equally accepted pronunciations are never marked wrong.
The app is free to download and comes with a free run of ten full practice sessions. After that, continuing to practise needs a subscription, weekly or annual; the sound library and your progress screens stay free.