5 min freeA friend, on a call
Lucía Ferrer
A friend, on a video call
Runs rooms pitched at basic everyday language and working fluency
Peninsular SpanishEither way. You pick before you start, from MadridRemembers your past conversations
5.0(2)
From 8 min
A session of any length
First 5 minutes free
In Lucía’s words
Lucía is a friend, which is the whole difficulty.
She is not testing you, she is not going to correct you, and she will happily carry the conversation on her own if you let her, and that is exactly how people end up with a friend they have never actually spoken to. She asks about your week and then waits. The silence after her question is the thing to rehearse: it is four seconds long, she is not going to fill it, and what goes in it decides whether this is a friendship or a series of polite calls. She also changes the subject the way friends do, mid-sentence, without warning.
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 Lucía 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 Lucía
Cleared
Published criteria
The criteria and their weights are visible before you speak.
- Here
- Warmth is not the same as ease. Somebody who never corrects you is somebody you can spend a year not improving with.
- 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 Lucía 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 friend, on a callThey ask how your week was and then wait. The four seconds after the question are the whole exercise.
- Someone from your courseA month in the same room, twice a week, and nothing said but hello. Today you are walking the same way.
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
- The same conversations with a native speaker
- $300
- You save
- $279
- You pay
- $21
Ratings
What 2 people made of Lucía
Every one of them finished a conversation with Lucía before they could leave a rating. One conversation, one rating — the rule is in the database, not in a form. That is why the number under the stars means something.
5.0
2 ratings
- 52
- 40
- 30
- 20
- 10
Every one left after a session with Lucía
Lucía can easily carry the whole conversation if I let her. I practiced actually telling a story instead of replying with three safe sentences.
After a session with Lucía
1 person has talked to Lucía, rated it and written about it. Ratings left through the product will join these, and only a finished conversation can leave one.
Compared with a live native speaker
14 conversations with Lucía 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 $3.52, starts when you press the button, and can be had again tomorrow.
A conversation with a native speaker
$50
A conversation here
$3.52
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 | $3.52 |
| 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 Lucía 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?
Lucía Ferrer runs 4 meetings. They are different conversations, not easy and hard versions of one, and each has its own criteria.
What counts as going well
Have an actual conversation: answer with something she can pick up, ask her something back, and change the subject at least once yourself.
Tell Lucía Ferrer one or two things about your situation and the conversation will be about it.
0/280
Lucía Ferrer
Peninsular Spanish · warm
Remembers your past calls
How they speak
- 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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