Is this a language tutor?

No. Nobody here teaches. On the other side of the table there is a hiring manager, an examiner, a customer with a queue behind them. They want something from this conversation. They will not slow down and they will not switch to your language. Ramble, and they cut you off. That is the practice.

What happens in the first ten seconds?

You press start and about a second later they are already talking. There is no press-to-talk button and no waiting for your turn. You can talk over them and they can talk over you, the way people do. That only became possible in September 2026, which is why this product exists now and not two years ago.

How is a score decided?

In two steps. First the system reads the record of your conversation and pulls out the evidence: which turn, your exact words, and whether they help or hurt. Then it gives a mark for each criterion, using only that evidence. Every quote is checked against what you really said before you see it, and the total is added up in code rather than asked for.

I read Russian but I need to interview in English. Does that work?

That is the normal case and the site is built for it. You set three things separately: the language you read the site in, the language the other person speaks, and the language your feedback is written in. Read the site in Russian, talk to Marcus Chen in American English, get the feedback in Russian. The quotes stay in English, because they are your own words.

Can I try it before paying?

Yes. On half the catalogue the first session is free, about five minutes, and nobody asks for a card. At the end you get the whole write-up, not a teaser. After that you buy minutes.

Is my voice recorded?

No. The audio is not stored, and there is no switch anywhere to turn storing on. What is kept is the text of what was said, because the score and the quotes under it are built on it. You can delete your account and everything attached to it from your account page.

No ratings yet. Only people who finish a conversation can leave one, so they will arrive as people do.

Speaking practice with AI people

26 people to talk to: a recruiter, an examiner, a doctor, a neighbour, your partner's mother. You speak out loud for 10–15 minutes. They start the conversation, they interrupt, and they will not switch to your language. Afterwards you get a write-up: what worked, what to fix, and your own words under every mark. The first conversation is free and no card is asked for.

$5.28 a conversation$26 for the same hour a tutor charges $50 for — about 2 times less, with nothing to book.

The conversation

First 5 minutes free

Scored on set criteriaEvery mark quotes what you said

Marcus Chen

Neutral

Engineering Manager, B2B SaaS

Austin, TX · American English

First word in: 0.8s
This person: Open now
Length: 15 min

Who you will be talking to

26 people to talk to, each with a real job and a real situation.

About us

What a band is made of

You can read the criteria before you start.

30of 100

4 criteriaAll published up front

3Times scored, the middle one counts

How they open

5/5

“I have eleven minutes and I have read the notes, so let's skip the summary. Tell me the decision you got wrong.”

Richard Hale, in the final round

What you keep

Set how many minutes a week you would really speak.

10 min120 min / week

A month of that with a tutor$150

You save−$74

You pay$76a month

About 2 times less, and nothing here has to be booked. The shortest conversation in the catalog runs 5 minutes.

What you get

Practice any time, as many times as you need

A tutor teaches you the language, and that is worth paying for. What a tutor cannot sell you, at any price, is the three things below — and under them is what each one comes to today.

It behaves like the real thing

A recruiter reads your CV while you talk. A landlady has heard all of this before. A friend leaves a silence and waits for you to fill it. Nobody slows down, nobody switches to your language, and the reply comes 0.8 seconds after you stop.

9 tries for the price of one lesson

A tutor's hour costs $50, and they will not sell you less than 60 minutes. One conversation here costs $5.28, so the same money gets you 9 goes at it instead of one.

Nothing to book

Six in the morning on the day itself. Or twice more tonight, because the first go was bad. No calendar, no confirmation, nobody else's week to fit into.

AI people you talk to out loud, with 4 accents across 2 languages.

26 AI people

Situations to choose from: a phone screen, an exam, a salary talk, a meeting at your child's school.

26 situations

Conversations for the price of one hour with a tutor.

9 for one hour with a tutor

A hiring manager's meeting room: a table, two chairs and a whiteboard nobody has cleaned

Marcus Chen picked

He speaks first

Write-up in 60sFour criteria, with quotes

Pick the person, not the lesson

26 people, five tracks, four accents. Read what the conversation is, read who the character is based on, and pick the one you are actually about to have.

Nobody here is a tutor
They want something. You are in their way.
Pressure is a filter, not a surprise
Warm, neutral, cold, hostile, chosen in advance.
The first session is free
Five minutes, no card, on half the catalog.

See all 26 people

Search the catalog

Find the right person to talk to

Filter by the language you will speak, by the situation, and by how hard you want to be pushed. Every card says how long the conversation runs and whether the first one is free.

5 min freeRecruiter screen

Dana Whitfield

Denver, CO· On a call

12 min

Talent Partner, Series C fintech

WarmCompare

5 min freeBehavioral round

Aisha Okafor

Manchester· Either way

15 min

HR Business Partner, NHS trust

NeutralCompare

5 min freeBehavioral round

Marcus Chen

Austin, TX· Either way

15 min

Engineering Manager, B2B SaaS

NeutralCompare

5 min freeVisa interview

Robert Kessler

Arlington, VA· Face to face

5 min

Consular officer

ColdCompare

Technical deep-dive

Priya Raman

San Jose, CA· On a call

20 min

Staff Engineer, infrastructure

ColdCompare

Behavioral round

Tom Berger

Brooklyn, NY· Either way

12 min

Founder and CEO, seed-stage startup

ColdCompare

All 26 people

Where a score comes from

Every mark quotes something you actually said

You can read the criteria before you start. Every quote in the write-up is checked against what you actually said. If a criterion has nothing to point to, it says so instead of guessing. None of this is an exam: run the same conversation as often as you like, and ignore the score if you want to.

4/5

Four of the five properties hold right across the catalogue today. The fifth is not done yet, and the list beside this says which one. What holds everywhere: the 100 points of a score are split across the criteria and always add up to 100.

How the score is worked out

Marcus Chen, and the place the conversation happens in. Every person here has a face and a place of their own, drawn for this catalogue — there is not one stock photograph on the site.

Published criteriaThe criteria and their weights are visible before you speak.Visible before the session starts
Before you speak you can see what is being measured and how much each thing is worth, as percentages that add up to a hundred. That is checked automatically: a set whose percentages do not add up never reaches the site. Published in advance; changes go through review
Every quote verifiedNo claim about you survives without your own sentence under it.While the score is being worked out
First the evidence is pulled out of the conversation: which turn, and your exact words. Before any of it reaches you the server checks that the quote matches that turn word for word. If it does not, there is one retry and then the quote is thrown away. The model does not get to reword you into agreeing with it. Checked on the server, never on the client
Silence over a guessA criterion with no evidence is left unscored, and says so.While the score is being worked out
If the conversation never came near a criterion, it comes back as not enough evidence rather than as a middling three. The total is then added up over the criteria that were scored, not the ones that were not. That is the arithmetic every product scoring you on a feeling quietly skips. Built into the code, not asked of the model
Three runs, the middle oneA score is not the one roll of the dice you happened to see.Twenty to sixty seconds
The marks are worked out three times over the same evidence, and the middle result is kept. Same evidence, same criteria, same version of the model. The only thing that changes is chance — and chance is exactly what a single run hides from you. Three independent runs, on the server
Checked against peopleThe scoring agreed with human examiners before it was allowed to run.Before a new version of the scoring goes live
Each set of criteria gets about sixty conversations marked by people. The scoring is not switched on until it agrees with them. The spread is measured separately — the same conversation is scored five times — and anything smaller than that spread is never drawn as progress. That is what the badge in the catalogue means. Honestly: no set of criteria has it yet. The conversations are collected and the check is in place, but nothing has been through it. People mark it first, then the run is recorded

The write-up

What you get after the conversation

The transcript, word for word

Every turn either of you took, kept as text with the time beside it. The conversation does not disappear when it ends: it is a page you can come back to.

You keep saying we. What did you do?
I rewrote the import path so the nightly job stopped timing out.
Good. Now the part that did not work.

The score, in under a minute

How much you spoke and where you stalled shows up straight away. The score follows in under a minute: what worked, what did not, and the sentence behind every line of it.

Audio
Transcript
Timings

And what you do with it next

The transcript — Every turn, and the time it happened at. The score is built out of this, and the text is yours to download or delete.

How long, by how hard

How long a conversation runs

The harder the conversation, the longer it runs. The price stays one number per minute, and it does not change with who you are talking to. Nothing is added on top.

See all the prices

Typical length, b2 · confident

12minutes of talking

See these people

5 min20 min

A hiring manager, a landlady, a meeting with your child's teacher

Conversations a week

$42a month

8 conversations, 96 minutes of talking.

The same 8 conversations, with a tutor$400

You save−$358

At $50 an hour, rounded up: nobody sells you less than 60 minutes at a time.

The price of a minute is published, and so is what it costs us
The first five minutes are free
12 conversations for the price of 11
Minutes are counted by the second, on the server’s clock

Compared with an hour of a tutor

9 rehearsals for the price of one lesson

A human tutor is worth $50 an hour. What they cannot do is sell you 12 minutes, be free the morning of the interview, or cut you off mid-sentence because that is what the room will do.

One lesson, 60 min

$50

One rehearsal, 12 min

$5.28

89% less, and you can do it 9 times before the hour is paid for.

A human tutor and Reallang, compared on seven points
	A human tutor	Reallang
Shortest thing you can buy	60 minutes	12 minutes, or five
What that costs	$50	$5.28
When you can have it	When they are free	Now, or at 6am on the day
Feedback in writing	About 24 hours later	60 seconds later
Will they interrupt you	No. They are being kind	Yes, on purpose, at ninety seconds
Evidence under the feedback	What they remember	Your own sentence, checked
Can they hear what you meant	Yes, and that is the point of them	No. It is a rehearsal, not a teacher

The last row is not a concession, it is the division of labour. A tutor teaches you the language. This rehearses the minutes where you have to use it, and there is no reason to buy an hour of a person’s time to do that.

Measured, not claimed

How fast the score comes, and how it is checked

People who have already tried it speak for themselves further down. We do not show a pass rate: there is no honest way to count one yet, and we will not invent it. What is below can be measured — how fast the score comes, how it is checked, how many times it is counted.

Before the other person starts talking, measured on the voice model this runs on. An app where you record and wait takes 2.4, and you hear the difference as a pause nobody would leave in a real conversation.

0.8 seconds to the first word

Of the claims in a score open onto a quote, and every quote is checked word for word against what you said before it is shown. 9 sets of criteria, all through the same filter.

100% quoted

Independent runs behind every score, and the middle one is kept, so a score is not the one result you happened to be shown. The same in all 52 situations.

3 runs, the middle one

Measured by us · not a survey · measured again with every update

In their words

What they say to you, and what people say afterwards

The white cards are opening lines: read one and decide whether you could answer it. The tinted ones are what people said after a conversation of their own — no names, at their own request, and nothing invented.

The neutral face threw me off more than I expected. I had to finish my STAR example without looking for reassurance.
After a conversation
Beatriz had an answer ready for every complaint about the boiler. I had to stop repeating the problem and ask for a specific date.
After a conversation
Opening line
Let's start with the money so neither of us wastes the other's time, what range are you working to?
Dana Whitfield
Recruiter screen
Answer this one
4 minutes in
You keep saying we. I need to know what you did. What was the part that would not have happened without you in the room?
Marcus Chen
Behavioral round
Answer this one
7 minutes in
Stop there. You said it scaled. To what, from what, and what broke first?
Priya Raman
Technical deep-dive
Answer this one

Start talking

Answer three questions and the conversation starts

There is nothing to book and nothing to wait for. Pick who you talk to, pick what about, and leave an address for the write-up. The first 5 minutes are free and no card is asked for.

1Who is across the table

Or pick from everyone

2What the conversation is

Tell me about a time. Then: what did you actually do, and what would you do differently.

3Where to send the write-up

Who: Marcus Chen · American English
What: Behavioral round
Waiting: 0.8 seconds

Today: Free
Every conversation after that: $5.28
The same hour, with a tutor: $50

No card until you buy minutes.
The write-up and the transcript stay in your account.

For teachers

Your class speaks between your lessons, and 20% of every minute is yours

Describe the situation your students have to get through in one paragraph: a landlord who will not repeat himself, a screening call, a parents' evening. We write the person on the other side of it. Your students open a link — no sign-up, nothing to install — and you are paid for every minute they speak. Your lessons stay yours. This is what happens on the days in between.

How it works for teachers

You decide how long the conversation runs

A conversation at a shop counter takes six minutes; a final interview takes fifteen. You set the length yourself, and that is what the student pays for.

B2 · confident 9 min – 15 min

Nobody has to be sold

People arrive having already typed in the thing they are afraid of. They read what the conversation is and press Start. You never have to sell anything.

Is there anyone who does the salary conversation?

Linda Park. Twelve minutes, warm until she is not.

Publish once, three ways in

Once your person is published, they are in search, on the page for their situation, and in the lists people are already saving.

All 5 properties, printed on the person's page

Published criteria, quotes checked against what was said, three passes with the middle one kept, a measured spread, and a set checked against human markers. The page says which of them is still missing.

Paid out of the minutes, not out of a budget

20% of every minute spoken to your person goes to the authors, split by the second. Once a payout is closed, it is never recalculated.

FAQ

What people ask before the first conversation

Talk to a person

The only machines here are the people you talk to. Everything else is us, and we usually answer inside 2 hours.

Write to us

still deciding?

Talk to three of them, start free and decide afterwards whether it is worth paying for

The conversation

The first 5 minutes are free and no card is asked for · we refund a paid conversation for 24 hours after it ends