Speak Human
The Only Dedicated Culture, Language & Travel Community that Helps People Adapt to Life Anywhere
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Global Guides
Our Global Guides share radically personal experiences, insights and resources. If you’re ready to explore the world, your in-app journey starts here. If you’re already a world traveler, we’d love to read or watch your stories.
Students
Multinationals
Organizations
Connect. Share. Learn. Here's how it works.
Step 1: Choose Your Destination
Whether traveling, relocating, or exploring the world virtually.
Step 2: Select Your Goals, Interests, & Learning Needs
Want to succeed in school, at work, around town, or explore a new destination just for fun? The more information you share with Apto about you and your goals and interests, the better your experience will be.
Step 3: Find Community, Insights, & Resources
For every stage of your "journey," Apto will connect you to the right people, content, resources, events, services and more, at the right time. Learn about the local language and culture in context - finally!
Step 4: Pay It Forward
Apto is built on the idea of human connection and exchange. Share your hometown, travel and authentic cultural stories, to help the next person better understand and adapt."
Step 1: Choose Your Destination
Whether traveling, relocating, or exploring the world virtually.
Step 2: Select Your Goals, Interests, & Learning Needs
Want to succeed in school, at work, around town, or explore a new destination just for fun? The more information you share with Apto about you and your goals and interests, the better your experience will be.
Step 3: Find Community, Insights, & Resources
For every stage of your "journey," Apto will connect you to the right people, content, resources, events, services and more, at the right time. Learn about the local language and culture in context - finally!
Step 4: Pay It Forward
Apto is built on the idea of human connection and exchange. Share your hometown, travel and authentic cultural stories, to help the next person better understand and adapt."
"The world is made up of stories, not atoms"
- Muriel Rukeyser
By living abroad in Madrid, Spain for a month, I was able to experience and learn first-hand a number of cultural differences when compared to life in the United States. As a Spanish minor in college, I have had the opportunity to learn about many different cultures in Spanish-speaking countries....
Manarola Cinque Terre is one of the most picturesque places I’ve ever visited. It’s made up of 5 small towns perched on the western coast of Italy. The name actually translates to “Five Lands.” I went on a day trip from Florence while studying abroad in Italy during the summer...
Apto thanks its internal team, investors and supporters around the world for their diligence in voting during the course of four rounds of the Nashville Business Journal 2022 Innomadness competition. The on-line competition positioned 16 Nashville start-ups in a friendly bracket-style competition geared to bring awareness of the burgeoning Nashville...
Our app is changing the way people experience the world and each other.
We’re an App-powered global community that believes storytelling is a powerful catalyst to change the world. It supports students as they easily adapt to a new campus; multinationals as they assimilate to a new geography and helps expats find points of connection.
Together, we speak human. Fluently.
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