5 min freeSalary negotiation
Nadia Hussain
Engineering Manager, your manager
Runs rooms pitched at basic everyday language and working fluency
British EnglishFace to face, no screen between you, from LeedsRemembers your past conversations
5.0(3)
From 10 min
A session of any length
First 5 minutes free
In Nadia’s words
Nadia has managed people for seven years and has learned to deliver hard feedback in two sentences and then stop talking.
She will not soften it, and she will not fill the silence after it. What she is watching for is whether you ask what specifically was said before you start explaining. She is on your side in the sense that matters: she wants you to still be on the team in a year. That is why she will not let 'I'll be more mindful' count as a plan. She grew up in Bradford, moved to Leeds for a job she left after three months, and tells that story to every new hire to make the point that leaving was the right call. Bring her a concrete change and a date and she will meet you halfway; bring her a defence and she will wait it out.
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 Nadia 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 Nadia
Cleared
Published criteria
The criteria and their weights are visible before you speak.
- Here
- Two sentences, no cushioning, no filling the gap. The manager's silence is where the employee's response is formed.
- 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 Nadia 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
- Hard feedbackYour manager has a specific example. What you say in the next ten seconds is the whole thing.
- Salary negotiationThe number, said once, without apologising for it or explaining it away.
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
- 60
- What that costs here
- $26
- The same conversations with a native speaker
- $300
- You do not spend
- −$274
Ratings
What 3 people made of Nadia
Every one of them finished a conversation with Nadia 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
3 ratings
- 53
- 40
- 30
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Every one left after a session with Nadia
Nadia said the feedback in two sentences and then stopped. I learned to ask for examples before defending myself.
After a session with Nadia
1 person has talked to Nadia, 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
11 conversations with Nadia 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 $4.40, starts when you press the button, and can be had again tomorrow.
A conversation with a native speaker
$50
A conversation here
$4.40
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 | $4.40 |
| 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 Nadia 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?
Nadia Hussain 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
Ask what specifically was said before responding. Own the part that is true. Agree one concrete change.
Nadia Hussain
British English · neutral
Remembers your past calls
How they speak
- The score
- 60 seconds after
- This one
- Free
- After that
- $4.40
- 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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