5 min freeA stranger at a party
Jess Harper
Someone from your climbing gym
Runs rooms pitched at working fluency and confident fluency
American EnglishFace to face, across a table, from Denver, CO
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A session of any length
First five minutes free
In Jess’s words
Jess is twenty-eight, a vet tech, and at the climbing gym on the same evenings as you.
You have nodded at each other for three weeks. Tonight she is next to you on the bench after class, and she has just said something about the new route. She is easy to talk to and quick to laugh, in relaxed Colorado English. The difficulty is not her; it is the step every newcomer to a city has to take and most never do: going from nice chats at the gym to an actual plan, a number, a coffee.
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 Jess 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 Jess
Cleared
Published criteria
The criteria and their weights are visible before you speak.
- Here
- Adults abroad make friends where they keep turning up, and lose them at the moment somebody has to suggest meeting outside it. That moment is a sentence, and it can be rehearsed.
- 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 Jess 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
- 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.
Ratings
Nobody has rated Jess 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 an hour of a tutor
16 rehearsals with Jess 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 Jess 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?
Jess Harper 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
Keep the conversation going beyond climbing, find something you have in common, and suggest meeting outside the gym.
Tell Jess Harper one or two things about your situation and the conversation will be about it.
0/280
How they speak
Jess Harper
American English · warm
Remembers your past calls
- Waiting
- 0.8 seconds
- 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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