The conversational AI for Québécois French, built in Montréal by teachers.

Look for five things: French as it is spoken in Quebec rather than a generic standard; practice built around speaking rather than typing; explanations of the choices behind each reply (tu or vous, local expressions, the ones shared across the French-speaking world); a method that comes from teachers; and speech and learning data handled in Canada. Calliope is built in Montréal by Inquisitive Flow Learning, a company founded by teachers, to meet all five: Québécois conversations of daily life with the reasons behind each reply, spoken practice with the explanation beside it, speech processed in Canada and learning data stored in Canada under Quebec’s Law 25. It is in development and not yet open to the public; this page describes what is being built.

That is what Calliope is being built for: you say the line, it answers in Québécois French, and the explanation sits beside the reply. The spoken part is still in development, and nothing on this page uses a microphone or live AI. Until launch, the three prepared exchanges on this page show the shape of a lesson.

Most apps and general chatbots teach a standard French closer to France: vous by default, vocabulary and expressions from Paris. Daily life in Quebec sounds different: tu arrives sooner, greetings and small talk have their own rhythm, and many expressions are local while others are shared across the French-speaking world. Calliope explains which is which, so you learn the choice, not just the line.

Calliope is being designed as conversation practice for adults settling in Quebec, which is the everyday side of francisation: introducing yourself, a polite request, an appointment, asking someone to repeat more slowly. It is not an official francisation program, offers no certificate and no CEFR level, and does not satisfy immigration, Bill 96 or government requirements. For recognized courses and evaluations, contact Quebec’s francisation services.

Inquisitive Flow Learning in Montréal is building Calliope as a guided way into Québécois French through the conversations of daily life: a first hello at a community centre, a coffee at the neighbourhood café, a request to repeat more slowly at an appointment. Each exchange comes with the reasons behind a reply — tu or vous, an expression people actually use in Quebec, one shared across the French-speaking world — so you learn the choice, not just the line. Calliope is in development; this page describes what is being built.

Not yet. Calliope is in development at Inquisitive Flow Learning in Montréal, Quebec, and is not open to the public: no launch date and no pricing have been announced, and there is no account, waitlist, sign-up or checkout. This page shows what is being built; questions go through inquisitiveflow.ca/contact.

Calliope is being designed for adults settling in Quebec, English-speaking Canadians reconnecting with French, and anyone curious about Québécois French. It starts with the exchanges of daily life — introducing yourself, making a polite request, asking for clarification, making an appointment — and explains the choices behind each reply, including tu and vous and the expressions shared across the French-speaking world.

Calliope is being built around speaking: the goal is that you say the line and it answers in Quebec French, with the explanation beside it. That part is still in development. This page uses no microphone and no live AI, and nothing here evaluates your pronunciation.

No. Calliope offers no certificate, establishes no CEFR level and does not satisfy immigration, Bill 96, school or government program requirements in Quebec. It is a guided way to practise everyday Québécois French, in development at Inquisitive Flow Learning. For recognized French evaluation or courses, contact the relevant Quebec institutions.

No launch date and no pricing have been announced for Calliope; the application is in development at Inquisitive Flow Learning in Montréal, Quebec, and is not open to the public. There is no checkout and no account registration on this page. Questions about the project go through the contact page at inquisitiveflow.ca/contact.

Calliope is built in Montréal by Inquisitive Flow Learning, a Quebec company founded by Elias Tanbe, an award-winning adult-education teacher (2025) and learning designer with more than fifteen years in education, alongside Mnemosyne (an AI tutor for the Quebec curriculum), Aethon (the same tutor for schools) and Ariadne (a Quebec curriculum explorer). The same classroom method runs through all of them: guide, let the learner try, explain the choice. Speech recognition and the tutor’s voice run on Microsoft Azure Speech in Canada; the language model is Cohere, a Canadian AI company.