My girlfriend is Filipino-American, and she's always wanted to actually learn Tagalog, not just understand bits of it from family gatherings — to actually hold a conversation with her lola on the phone instead of waiting for someone to translate. But between work and school, she never had a real block of time to sit down with a course or grind through an app every night.
It wasn't that she didn't want it badly enough. It was that every option out there expects you to carve out extra time for it. So I tried building the opposite: something that works with the time she already spends online instead of asking for more of it.
That turned into Hari. It quietly swaps in Tagalog words while she's browsing like she normally would, so she's picking things up on the same sites she was already scrolling through anyway, one tab and one sentence at a time — slowly closing the gap between understanding more Tagalog than she could actually speak.
