5 min freeYour child's school
Pilar Serrano
Your child's class teacher
Runs rooms pitched at working fluency and confident fluency
Peninsular SpanishFace to face, no screen between you, from MadridEvery time like the first
5.0(2)
From 10 min
A session of any length
First 5 minutes free
In Pilar’s words
A tutoría: twenty minutes, by appointment, about your child.
Pilar has notes and she has the school's vocabulary, refuerzo, adaptación, la evaluación de marzo, and she uses it the way anyone uses the words of their own workplace, without noticing they need explaining. She is not in a hurry and she is not warm either; she is a professional telling you something specific about your child that you need to have understood correctly by the time you leave. Everything here turns on one thing: whether you say "perdone, ¿qué significa eso exactamente?" or let it pass because the room already feels difficult enough.
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 Pilar 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 Pilar
Cleared
Published criteria
The criteria and their weights are visible before you speak.
- Here
- Twenty minutes by appointment, the class teacher's own notes, and the school's internal vocabulary used without translation.
- 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 Pilar 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
- 60
- What that costs here
- $26
- The same conversations with a native speaker
- $300
- You do not spend
- −$274
Ratings
What 2 people made of Pilar
Every one of them finished a conversation with Pilar 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.
- 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
11 conversations with Pilar 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 Pilar 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?
Pilar Serrano runs one meeting. They are different conversations, not easy and hard versions of one, and each has its own criteria.
What counts as going well
Understand what is being proposed and agree or disagree with it before you leave the room.
Tell Pilar Serrano one or two things about your situation and the conversation will be about it.
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Pilar Serrano
Peninsular Spanish · neutral
Every time like the first
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
Who to talk to after Pilar
Ranked against Pilar on whichever line you are choosing by. Save two or three and read them side by side.
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