5 min freeYour first shift
Javier Ortega
Clerk at the foreigners' office
Runs rooms pitched at confident fluency and advanced fluency
Peninsular SpanishFace to face, no screen between you, from MadridEvery time like the first
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In Javier’s words
Javier sits at window seven of a foreigners' office in Madrid.
He has been doing this for nineteen years, he sees forty people a morning, and the appointment that took you three weeks to get will last about seven minutes. He is not unkind. He is exact. He asks for documents by their form number, reads your papers faster than you can follow, and if something is missing he tells you once, in the language of the regulation. What you get out of the seven minutes depends on asking the right question before he calls the next number.
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 Javier 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 Javier
Cleared
Published criteria
The criteria and their weights are visible before you speak.
- Here
- The appointment everybody who moves to Spain has, and nobody rehearses. The difference between coming back next month and leaving with a date is usually one precise question.
- 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.
Situations and levels
What Javier 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
- 42
- The same conversations with a native speaker
- $300
- You save
- $282
- You pay
- $18
Ratings
Nobody has rated Javier yet
You cannot leave a rating here without finishing a conversation first. That is why there are none: the catalog has not been opened to anybody yet.
- One conversation, one rating
- A rating is tied to one conversation, and a conversation can only be used once. It cannot be attached to a conversation that never happened.
- Written by the person who spoke
- Not by somebody who bought a package. The stronger claim, and the only one this product is in a position to make.
- Read before it is published
- The same rule everything else a visitor reads goes through. Nothing appears here automatically.
Compared with a live native speaker
16 conversations with Javier for the price of one with a native speaker
Talking with a live native speaker is the best practice there is, and it is priced like it: from $50 a conversation, at a time that suits them. Here a conversation costs $3.08, starts when you press the button, and can be had again tomorrow.
A conversation with a native speaker
$50
A conversation here
$3.08
Nothing to book, and the same conversation can be had as many times as you like.
| A live native speaker | Reallang | |
|---|---|---|
| What one conversation costs | From $50 | $3.08 |
| When you can talk | When they have a slot | Now, or at six in the morning |
| Who is across the table | The same person every time | A recruiter, a doctor, a neighbour: 56 people |
| Will they interrupt you | Rarely. You are the one paying | Yes, like in real life |
| Feedback in writing | Usually none | 60 seconds later, quoting you |
| A real person across the table | Yes | No, an AI person |
The last row is the honest one: a real person is a real person, and nothing replaces that. But getting comfortable speaking takes dozens of conversations, not one a week at $50. Your teacher teaches you the language; this is the practice in between.
Start a session
Pick the meeting, and Javier 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?
Javier Ortega 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
Understand the problem precisely, ask whether it can be fixed today, and leave knowing the next step and the date.
Javier Ortega
Peninsular Spanish · cold
Every time like the first
How they speak
- The score
- 60 seconds after
- This one
- Free
- After that
- $2.64
- 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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