5 min freeRecruiter screen
Jamie Holt
Somebody you have just met, at a party
Runs rooms pitched at confident fluency
Either way. You pick before you start, from Bristol
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From 7 min
A session of any length
First five minutes free
Ways in to Jamie Holt
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 Jamie’s words
Jamie is friendly, slightly drunk and standing next to you because the kitchen is where everybody stands.
There is music, so you will miss words. There are two other conversations within a metre of your head. What makes this hard is not vocabulary. It is that Jamie has no agenda, so nothing carries the conversation but you, and that the honest exit, the one where you leave without it being awkward, is a specific set of words nobody ever teaches. Stay too long and it dies. Leave badly and you have met nobody.
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 Jamie 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 Jamie
Cleared
Published criteria
The criteria and their weights are visible before you speak.
- Here
- Background noise, no shared context and no reason for either of you to be there. The hardest listening conditions most people meet in a second language, and nobody practises them.
- 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 Jamie 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 Jamie 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
- A stranger at a partyMusic, an accent, no syllabus, and the hardest part is leaving the conversation without ending it badly.
- Meeting someone newA friend of a friend, a café, and nobody obliged to keep it going. The first two minutes are the whole thing.
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
- 42
- What that costs here
- $18
- The same minutes with a tutor
- $300
- You do not spend
- −$282
At $50 an hour, rounded up to the 60-minute booking nobody will sell you less than.
What Jamie says
The lines you will actually have to answer
Word for word, from Jamie'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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What Jamie is like, across 0 scenarios
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Ratings
What people said after talking to Jamie
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.
Every time I answered generally, the conversation came back to one concrete example.
After a session with Jamie
1 person has talked to Jamie 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
16 rehearsals with Jamie for the price of one lesson
A human tutor is worth $50 an hour. What they cannot do is sell you 7 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, 7 min
$3.08
94% less, and you can do it 16 times before the hour is paid for.
| A human tutor | Reallang | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortest thing you can buy | 60 minutes | 7 minutes, or five |
| What that costs | $50 | $3.08 |
| 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 Jamie 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?
Jamie Holt runs 3 meetings. They are different conversations, not easy and hard versions of one, and each has its own criteria.
What counts as going well
Get past the second question. Most of these die there, because both people run out of reasons to continue at the same moment.
Jamie Holt
British English · warm
- Waiting
- 0.8 seconds
- The score
- 60 seconds after
- This one
- Free
- After that
- $3.08
- 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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