VerbamorColin Taylor
I build Verbamor, an iOS app that turns the words from your own lessons and conversations into flashcards. Every comparison, guide and blog post on verbamor.com goes out under my name.
Why I write about memory and language learning
I got serious about Spanish and Portuguese with 2 lessons a week on italki, for a while. My tutor taught me good material, and by the next lesson most of it was gone. Building flashcards by hand turned into a second job I never kept up with, so I built an app that does it.
Today I record my own conversations in Spanish, and the words I reached for and didn't have go into my deck. Over 300 hours of lessons have gone through the app. That's the problem these pieces keep coming back to: how to keep what a lesson teaches you, and what the research actually says about it.
The longer version, including how the app started, is on the about page.
How these pieces are written
Every piece on this site is drafted with Claude, an AI model made by Anthropic, from a written brief. I review and edit each one before it goes live, and I'm responsible for what it says. You should know that before you trust any of it.
The brief carries the rules the draft has to pass:
- A claim about a study links the paper itself, not a blog post about it. If the full text was paywalled and couldn't be read, the source list says so.
- A price or feature claim about another app comes from that company's own page, with the date it was read. When a company won't publish a number, the piece says that instead of borrowing one from an affiliate site.
- Every comparison names the kind of person who should pick the other app.
- Opinion and my own experience are marked as mine, not dressed up as findings.
When a piece is wrong, I fix it and the modified date changes. I don't quietly delete things. If you spot a mistake, email support@verbamor.com. It comes to me.
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