On WhatsApp
Say it before it matters.
An English coach on WhatsApp that talks like a friend. Tell it about the viva on Friday, the interview, the Monday meeting, the customer who talks fast. It gives you the line, hears you say it, and says what it heard.
Vivas · interviews · presentations · team meetings · PTA meetings · + more
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How it improves your English
Why a friend, not a lesson.
You know more English than comes out when it matters. The gap is not knowledge. It is saying things to someone, out loud, often, and being answered. The research on this, much of it published by Cambridge University Press, is clear.
28students of French, one term
Saying it, not studying it
The ones in a classroom at home made no measurable gain in fluency. The ones who spoke and wrote it the most hours a week made the largest.
So the practice here is your own week: the meeting, the counter, the viva on Friday.
×3the same talk, three times
Say it again
Learners who gave the same short talk three times kept their shorter pauses on the later tests. Those who gave three different talks did not.
So what you practise comes back: you say it, hear what was measured, and say it again.
19,933learners across 97 studies
Safe to get it wrong
The more anxious the learner, the lower they tended to score. A chat with someone who answers kindly is the lowest-stakes room there is.
The University of Cambridge’s Language Centre runs its English conversation hours the same way: relaxed, led by a native speaker, with feedback on language as it goes.
Teimouri, Goetze & Plonsky · Studies in Second Language Acquisition · 2019 · University of Cambridge Language Centre
12weeks, two kinds of practice
Delivery decides
Twelve weeks on rhythm, stress and intonation made learners easier to follow in free speech. Twelve weeks on individual sounds did not. And listeners who heard a talk with the stress on the right words remembered more of it, and thought better of the speaker.
That is why it listens for the word your voice leaned on, and where the end went.
Derwing, Munro & Wiebe · Language Learning · 1998 · Hahn · TESOL Quarterly · 2004
“Comments and prompts lead to more learning gains than providing scores.”
Which is why the thread carries no score. A slip is said back the right way and the talk goes on. Across fifteen classroom studies with 827 learners, correction during conversation had lasting effects.
And practice can be spread out. Learners who practised four times, a week apart, used fewer ums and uhs afterwards than learners who had not practised, which is a reason for a coach like this to live in the app you already open all day.
Lyster & Saito · 2010 · Kakitani & Kormos · 2024
Both in Studies in Second Language Acquisition
Your first week
A week in, you’ll hear it.
Not fluent in a week; nobody honest says that. But the first changes come fast, and they are the ones other people notice.
Day one
You hear what you actually sound like
One voice note about your day. Back comes what was measured: your pace, where you paused, the word that carried the weight, how the end fell.
Day three
One line is yours
A sentence built from your own situation, said three times. Repeating what you plan to say, rather than always saying something new, is what helped learners keep their pauses short on later tests. You use it for real, and tell the thread how it went.
Day seven
It knows your week
By now it remembers what’s coming: the viva, the manager, the customer who talks fast. It brings them back without being asked, and the lines you’ve practised are ready when you need them.
What it listens for
Your pace
About 125 words a minute, say. Slow, steady, or fast.
The pauses
Where you stopped, and after which word.
The weight
The one word your voice leaned on. Often not the one you meant.
The ending
Whether it rose like a question, or fell and sounded settled.
What it isn’t
Nothing to install
If you have WhatsApp, you have all of it.
No timetable
No levels, no points, no streaks, no deadline. It talks like a friend, and teaches when you need it.
No price at the door
Your first month is on us. It tells you what comes after before anything is charged.
In a browser instead
Would rather speak into a microphone?
The web version is here: a mic, a read on your delivery drawn as a line, and every take kept once you sign in.
The line you need on Monday, said out loud on Sunday.
Start on WhatsAppReply STOP at any time and it stops.