How Maia teaches you
It starts with a conversation
Tell Maia what you want to learn. “I want to learn Spanish for a trip to Mexico,” or “Teach me music theory,” or “I'm halfway through a machine learning course and I'm stuck.” Maia asks one or two questions to understand your level and your goals.
From that, it generates a structured curriculum: a sequence of milestones, each with clear learning objectives. Not a random topic list — a real course, designed around how the subject is actually learned, building on what you know and introducing complexity at the right pace.
Lessons are conversations, not lectures
Each lesson is a one-on-one dialogue with your tutor — by text or live voice. The tutor introduces a concept, explains it, then makes you use it. If you get it wrong, it doesn't just say “incorrect” — it asks a question that helps you find the error yourself.
This is Socratic teaching. The tutor draws understanding out of you through questions, not monologues. Every lesson has specific learning objectives and a grading system that tracks whether you've met them. You advance when you've demonstrated comprehension — not when you've clicked through a set of screens.
Voice mode: like having a tutor in the room
Switch to live voice in any lesson. Maia speaks and listens in real time — you talk through problems, explain your reasoning, and the conversation flows naturally. It's like working through material with someone who knows the answer but wants you to find it. For languages, this is also where pronunciation practice and fluency happen.
Every lesson comes with its own resources
The conversation is the core, but Maia generates a full set of materials around each lesson — custom-built for your topic, your level, and what you've covered so far.
“...and that's why a minor chord sounds darker — the third is flattened by one semitone, which changes the whole character...”
Two AI hosts discuss your lesson from different angles. They debate, build on each other's points, and make connections you might not have seen. For languages, they mix your target language with English at your level. Every episode includes a full transcript.
Building Chords from Scales
12 min · Generated for your course
A focused audio lecture covering the lesson's material explanation-first. Good for reviewing before a lesson or solidifying understanding after one. Generated specifically for what you're learning, not pulled from a library.
Why Chords Sound the Way They Do
When you stack every other note from a scale, you get a chord. But not all chords sound the same. The distance between the notes — the intervals — determines whether a chord sounds bright, dark, tense, or resolved...
Key Takeaways
- •Major chords: root + major 3rd + perfect 5th
- •Minor chords: root + minor 3rd + perfect 5th
- •The 3rd determines the chord's “mood”
Written material tailored to the lesson — explanations, worked examples, and reference notes you can come back to. Adapts to the subject: annotated proofs for math, narrative essays for history, dialogues for languages.
Multiple choice
If you stack thirds starting on the note E in the C major scale, which chord do you get?
The C major scale has no sharps or flats, so stacking thirds from E gives you E – G – B — a minor third followed by a major third, which makes it minor.
Practice problems generated from your actual lessons. The format adapts to the subject: ear-training for guitar, coding challenges for Python, reaction problems for chemistry, translation for languages.
All of this is generated on demand for your specific course. There's no content library. Every podcast, lecture, reading, and exercise is unique to what you're learning and where you are in it.
Spaced repetition across everything
Maia tracks your memory for every concept. Things you know well fade out. Things you struggle with come back before you forget. Review happens in exercises, in conversation (the tutor weaves past concepts into new lessons), and in the podcasts. The system adapts to your memory, not the other way around.
It learns how you learn
As you progress, Maia builds a profile of you — your strengths, your recurring mistakes, your pace. Future lessons adapt: if you struggle with a concept, the tutor spends more time on it. If you're ahead, it skips what you already know.
The curriculum itself evolves. After each milestone, the system evaluates whether the planned path still makes sense given what it's observed, and adjusts. It's the kind of ongoing calibration a great tutor does instinctively.
Try it yourself — your first course is free.
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