- B1 · working, B2 · confident
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run5 min
Practise speaking English out loud
Which variety you will actually hear
An interview in Austin and an interview in Manchester are not the same rehearsal. Pick the variety you will face: 38 people across 3 of them, then turn up the pressure until it stops being comfortable.
A city or a country, and the map moves to the variety you would meet there.
Who speaks it
Who you can talk to in American English
26 people, shortest conversations first. The first 5 minutes cost nothing.
- A2 · basic, B1 · working
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run6 min
- B1 · working, B2 · confident
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run6 min
- B1 · working, B2 · confident
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run6 min
- A2 · basic, B1 · working
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run7 min
- A2 · basic, B1 · working
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run7 min
- B1 · working, B2 · confident
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run8 min
- B2 · confident, C1 · advanced
- American English
- Face to face
0 conversations run8 min
- A2 · basic, B1 · working
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run8 min
- A2 · basic, B1 · working
- American English
- On a call
First 5 min free0 conversations run8 min
- A2 · basic, B1 · working
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run8 min
- B1 · working, B2 · confident
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run8 min
- A2 · basic, B1 · working
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run8 min
- A2 · basic, B1 · working
- American English
- On a call
First 5 min free0 conversations run8 min
- B1 · working, B2 · confident
- American English
- In person or on a call
0 conversations run8 min
- B1 · working, B2 · confident
- American English
- In person or on a call
First 5 min free0 conversations run10 min
- B2 · confident, C1 · advanced
- American English
- On a call
0 conversations run10 min
- B2 · confident, C1 · advanced
- American English
- In person or on a call
0 conversations run10 min
- A2 · basic, B1 · working
- American English
- In person or on a call
First 5 min free0 conversations run10 min
- B1 · working, B2 · confident
- American English
- In person or on a call
First 5 min free0 conversations run10 min
- A2 · basic, B1 · working
- American English
- On a call
First 5 min free0 conversations run12 min
- B1 · working, B2 · confident
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run12 min
- B2 · confident, C1 · advanced
- American English
- In person or on a call
0 conversations run12 min
- A2 · basic, B1 · working
- American English
- Face to face
First 5 min free0 conversations run13 min
- B1 · working, B2 · confident
- American English
- In person or on a call
First 5 min free0 conversations run15 min
- B2 · confident, C1 · advanced
- American English
- On a call
0 conversations run20 min
What for
What you need English for
Each of these is a page of its own: the people who run those conversations, the situations inside them, and what gets marked. Start from the one with a date attached.
job interviews
Recruiter screens, hiring managers, technical deep-dives, and the director who cuts you off mid-sentence.
7 people · 5 situations
speaking exams
An examiner who follows the published three-part structure, times you, and does not help.
3 people · 3 situations
hard conversations at work
Salary talks, an unhappy client, hard feedback from your manager, a colleague you are in conflict with.
4 people · 4 situations
everyday life
A customer at the morning rush, a neighbour you cannot escape, a receptionist, your child's teacher. The conversations you cannot postpone.
14 people · 10 situations
the conversations that make a friend
A friend on a video call, a stranger at a party, ninety seconds in a conference hallway, your partner's mother. Nobody is grading you, which is exactly why people avoid these for years.
10 people · 8 situations
Which one, and why
Pick the accent you will actually hear
An interview at an American company and an interview at a British one are two different conversations: different pace, different vocabulary, different amount of slack. Practising against the wrong one is how people arrive fluent and still lost in the first two minutes.
How a score is decided
Checked against peopleEach set of criteria gets about sixty conversations marked by people. The scoring is not switched on until it agrees with them. The spread is measured separately — the same conversation is scored five times — and anything smaller than that spread is never drawn as progress. That is what the badge in the catalogue means. Honestly: no set of criteria has it yet. The conversations are collected and the check is in place, but nothing has been through it. People mark it first, then the run is recorded
One variety each, and no switching
Every person here speaks one variety and will not move off it. That is the point rather than a limitation: the accent you will hear on the day is not a setting you get to change.
They do not slow down
Normal speed, normal vocabulary, and no enunciating for your benefit. The moment a rehearsal slows down for you it has stopped rehearsing the thing you were afraid of.
Ask and you get it. Nod and you do not
Name the word you missed and it comes back, clearly. Nod at something you did not catch and the conversation carries on without you, exactly as it would anywhere else.
The pressure is picked, not suffered
Warm, neutral, cold or hostile, chosen before you start. It sets how often they cut in, how long they let a silence run, and whether a vague answer gets through.
The other 4 varieties
Your accent not on the map? Every one of them is either way.
Or you could write the variety we have not reached yet. Open a language