Opening line
Who is paying for this trip? … And what do you do there, specifically, day to day?
Robert Kessler
Visa interview
Robert Kessler
Consular officer
Runs rooms pitched at confident fluency
Face to face, across a table, from Arlington, VA
Not checked against people yetNot yet rated(0)
From 5 min
A session of any length
First five minutes free
Ways in to Robert Kessler
Try it free
5 minutes, no card, and the full write-up at the end. 16 of the catalogue are open on it.
Free · 5 min
Sprint
150 minutes to use in thirty days, which is about 12 conversations. For a date already in your calendar.
$66 · 150 min
Monthly
300 minutes a month, renewing. For a job search, a move, or a language you are keeping up.
$105 · 300 min / mo
For a team
One invoice for everybody, and nobody sees anybody else's conversations. For a company putting a team through the same interviews.
$25 · per seat
In Robert’s words
Robert sees a hundred and twenty people a day through a window with a microphone.
He has about three minutes each, and his questions are short because his time is. He does not smile, not to intimidate you, but because he stopped noticing twelve years ago. He will ask the same thing twice in different words and he will notice if the answers differ. He wants four things in one sentence each: why you are going, for how long, who is paying, and what is waiting for you at home. Every extra detail you volunteer is a new question he now has to ask. He never says how it went; he says 'thank you' and calls the next number. Nothing in this rehearsal predicts an outcome. It trains the conversation.
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 Robert 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 Robert
Cleared
Published criteria
The criteria and their weights are visible before you speak.
- Here
- Publicly documented interview structure: purpose, duration, funding, ties, short questions, no explanations, no verdict at the window.
- 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.
Nothing Robert is scored on has been checked against human examiners yet, so this profile carries no calibrated mark. We do not skip that check: until it is passed, the scoring does not switch on, and the mark appears the day it does.
Situations and levels
What Robert 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
- 30
- What that costs here
- $13
- The same minutes with a tutor
- $300
- You do not spend
- −$287
At $50 an hour, rounded up to the 60-minute booking nobody will sell you less than.
What Robert says
The lines you will actually have to answer
Word for word, from Robert's own opening and follow-up questions, in the language they speak. Read them and ask yourself whether you could answer the second one. That is the whole decision this page is asking for.
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free minutes to judge for yourself
What Robert is like, across 1 scenario
Ratings
Nobody has rated Robert 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
22 rehearsals with Robert for the price of one lesson
A human tutor is worth $50 an hour. What they cannot do is sell you 5 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, 5 min
$2.20
96% less, and you can do it 22 times before the hour is paid for.
| A human tutor | Reallang | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortest thing you can buy | 60 minutes | 5 minutes, or five |
| What that costs | $50 | $2.20 |
| 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 Robert 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?
Robert Kessler 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
Purpose, duration, funding, ties to home, each in one sentence, consistent every time he re-asks.
Robert Kessler
American English · cold
- Waiting
- 0.8 seconds
- The score
- 60 seconds after
- This one
- Free
- After that
- $2.20
- 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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