Opening line
Okay so this one's the till, that's the fridge log, and I'll be out back. You good?
Frank Delgado
Your first shift
Frank Delgado
Shift manager, your first day
Runs rooms pitched at working fluency and confident fluency
Face to face, across a table, from Phoenix, AZ
Not checked against people yetNot yet rated(0)
From 8 min
A session of any length
First five minutes free
Ways in to Frank Delgado
Try it free
5 minutes, no card, and the full write-up at the end. 16 of the catalogue are open on it.
Free · 5 min
Sprint
150 minutes to use in thirty days, which is about 12 conversations. For a date already in your calendar.
$66 · 150 min
Monthly
300 minutes a month, renewing. For a job search, a move, or a language you are keeping up.
$105 · 300 min / mo
For a team
One invoice for everybody, and nobody sees anybody else's conversations. For a company putting a team through the same interviews.
$25 · per seat
In Frank’s words
Frank has trained about sixty people and likes doing it, which makes him the gentlest person in this part of the catalog.
He walks you through the till, the breaks, the closing list and who to call if the card reader dies, and he does it once because he has a floor to run. He will not be annoyed if you stop him. He will be annoyed on Thursday if something was wrong all week because you did not. That is the whole lesson he is here to teach: the cost of asking is four seconds now, and the cost of not asking is a week.
1min
They speak first, about a second after you press start. There is no press-to-talk and no waiting for your turn.
4min
Four minutes of the real thing, at the real pace, with the interruptions where a real one would put them.
1min
Your pace, your pauses and your filler words are counted within a second, and the score follows. Nobody asks for a card to hear it.
What a score from Frank is worth
How the score is worked out here
Three things, and you can read what each one actually means. None of them turn this into an exam: talk to this person as often as you like, and the score is there only if you want it.
Run on Frank
Cleared
Published criteria
The criteria and their weights are visible before you speak.
- Here
- Everything said once, in one pass, while the shift is already running, the format most service jobs actually use.
- Held by
- Published in advance; changes go through review
- Method
- 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.
Nothing Frank is scored on has been checked against human examiners yet, so this profile carries no calibrated mark. We do not skip that check: until it is passed, the scoring does not switch on, and the mark appears the day it does.
Situations and levels
What Frank runs, and what a fortnight of it costs
A minute costs the same whoever you talk to: the expensive part is the model, not the person. Move the sliders to match the two weeks you actually have.
Situations
Difficulty
What it costs to rehearse this properly
Three runs across a week is what changes an answer. Move the sliders to your own plan. Nothing renews, and nothing is charged until you buy minutes.
- Minutes of talking in total
- 48
- What that costs here
- $21
- The same minutes with a tutor
- $300
- You do not spend
- −$279
At $50 an hour, rounded up to the 60-minute booking nobody will sell you less than.
What Frank says
The lines you will actually have to answer
Word for word, from Frank's own opening and follow-up questions, in the language they speak. Read them and ask yourself whether you could answer the second one. That is the whole decision this page is asking for.
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free minutes to judge for yourself
What Frank is like, across 1 scenario
Ratings
What people said after talking to Frank
Each one written after a conversation of their own. They asked not to be named, so nothing is signed: a made-up name beside a real sentence would be the one false thing on this page. Stars will arrive as finished conversations leave them.
It trained me to ask and answer specific questions instead of staying vague.
After a session with Frank Very convincing session. Frank explains things once and then expects you to act on them. I would do it again before the real thing.
After a session with Frank
2 people have talked to Frank and written about it. Stars will sit beside these as people leave them, and only a finished conversation can leave one.
Compared with an hour of a tutor
14 rehearsals with Frank for the price of one lesson
A human tutor is worth $50 an hour. What they cannot do is sell you 8 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, 8 min
$3.52
93% less, and you can do it 14 times before the hour is paid for.
| A human tutor | Reallang | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortest thing you can buy | 60 minutes | 8 minutes, or five |
| What that costs | $50 | $3.52 |
| 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.
Start a session
Pick the meeting, and Frank starts talking
There is no calendar, because there is nothing to wait for. Choose which conversation it is, allow the microphone, and a second later you are talking.
Which conversation are you having?
Frank Delgado runs 2 meetings. They are different conversations, not easy and hard versions of one, and each has its own criteria.
What counts as going well
Leave knowing all four things. Every time you stopped him counts in your favour.
Frank Delgado
American English · warm
- Waiting
- 0.8 seconds
- The score
- 60 seconds after
- This one
- Free
- After that
- $3.52
- The first 5 minutes cost nothing and no card is asked for.
- We ask for your microphone before the conversation starts, never after.
- Audio is not stored. The written record of the conversation is, because the score quotes from it.
Also free the first time
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