5 min freeYour first shift
Priya Nair
Somebody worth knowing, in a conference hallway
Runs rooms pitched at working fluency and confident fluency
American EnglishEither way. You pick before you start, from Seattle, WAEvery time like the first
4.7(3)
From 8 min
A session of any length
First 5 minutes free
In Priya’s words
Priya has ninety seconds before her next session and no idea who you are.
This is the most valuable conversation at any conference and the one everybody wastes, because it is neither social nor professional and people default to whichever they are worse at. She will ask what you work on. The answer decides everything: too vague and she is polite and gone, too long and she is late. What she is actually listening for is whether there is a reason to speak to you again, and saying that reason out loud is the part people leave 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 Priya 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 Priya
Cleared
Published criteria
The criteria and their weights are visible before you speak.
- Here
- The real length of a conference introduction, measured against the two minutes people prepare. Half of what gets rehearsed never gets said.
- 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 Priya 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
- The conference hallwayNinety seconds between talks to say what you do in a way somebody will write down.
- Small talk with a colleagueNothing to decide, five minutes, and somebody you will see every day for years. Talking about the work is the easy way out.
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
- What that costs here
- $21
- The same conversations with a native speaker
- $300
- You do not spend
- −$279
Ratings
What 3 people made of Priya
Every one of them finished a conversation with Priya 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.
4.7
3 ratings
- 52
- 41
- 30
- 20
- 10
Every one left after a session with Priya
I gave Priya my usual vague answer about what I work on and could feel the conversation dying. The second attempt was much sharper.
After a session with Priya
1 person has talked to Priya, 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 Priya 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 Priya 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?
Priya Nair 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
Say what you work on in one sentence she can repeat to somebody else, and name a reason to talk again out loud.
Tell Priya Nair one or two things about your situation and the conversation will be about it.
0/280
Priya Nair
American English · neutral
Every time like the first
How they speak
- The score
- 60 seconds after
- This session
- $3.52
- 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
Who to talk to after Priya
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