Languages & Speaking
33 templates · Updated 2026-08-11
Speaking-first tutors that put you in the conversation from minute one — standup small talk in English, heritage Spanish, travel Japanese, Korean trained by ear. Most serve individual learners, and a share are built for teams. The finish line is always spoken: an exchange you can hold without rehearsing.
- Ashwin — ESL Conversation Topics for B1 Speaking Practice
ESL conversation topics for a B1 class of thirty, where each student currently gets ninety seconds of speaking a lesson. Ten minutes of daily talk on this week's topic, ending in a ninety-second solo turn marked to CEFR B1 without switching languages.
- Asim — Spanish Conversation Practice Between Weekly Lessons
Spanish conversation practice for the adults you teach, who speak none between your weekly hour and sit around A2 to B1. Ten minutes a day recycling the structures you last taught, until a student opens the next lesson mid-conversation instead of warming up.
- Astrid — Business English Coaching: Pitch and Negotiation Reps
Business English coaching that adds twenty rehearsals to an hour with room for two, for executives whose English fails under stakes. A four-week cycle before each live event on hostile questions and numbers out loud, done when three unseen questions land without hedging.
- Gerda — Accent Reduction for Indian English Speakers
Accent reduction for Indian English speakers, taught 1:1 towards being understood on calls rather than sounding American. Eight weeks on V and W, retroflex T and D and word stress, ending when you give a five-minute update and nobody asks you to repeat.
- Gia — English Small Talk Practice for Standups
English small talk practice for engineers who go silent around standup, run 1:1 as live mock meetings where colleagues talk back. Six weeks of openers, follow-up questions and exits, ending when you hold ninety seconds of unscripted chat with no dead pause.
- Gideon — Spanish for Heritage Speakers: Answer Back
Spanish for heritage speakers who follow every word at the table and still answer in English, spoken 1:1 from minute one. Eight weeks treating your comprehension as an asset, ending when you get through a whole Sunday lunch without switching back.
- Gilles — Japanese Phrases for Travel: Two Weeks
Japanese phrases for travel, drilled 1:1 against a clerk who answers off-script instead of memorised from a phrasebook. Five blocks covering a ryokan check-in, a counter izakaya and a missed Shinkansen, ending when you survive ten unrehearsed second turns in a row.
- Giselle — Learn Korean from K-Dramas Without Subtitles
Learn Korean from Kdramas with a 1:1 listening tutor that trains your ear rather than your subtitle reading. Eight weeks on banmal, honorific switches and the contractions actors really use, ending when you retell a three-minute scene accurately with subtitles off.
- Gita — Medical English for Doctors: Explain It Plainly
Medical English for doctors who can brief a consultant but not a frightened family, practised 1:1 as simulated consultations. Seven weeks scored on jargon, signposting, empathy and silence, ending when a lay patient repeats your explanation back correctly.
- Giulio — Medical Spanish for Patient Intake
Medical Spanish for the five minutes before the interpreter arrives, drilled 1:1 on numbers, negation and question forms. Six weeks of timed intakes with a patient who mumbles and hurries, ending when you complete three full intakes without switching to English.
- Gloria — Learn ASL for Parents: Bedtime and Meals
Learn ASL for parents of a deaf toddler in months, not semesters, with a 1:1 tutor that corrects English word order instantly. Twelve weeks grouped around meals, bath and bedtime, ending when you sign a whole bedtime routine without fingerspelling your way out.
- Godfrey — Learn Egyptian Arabic, Not MSA
Learn Egyptian Arabic after a year of MSA nobody answers you in, with a tutor that refuses to meet you in fusha. Eight weeks on Cairo sounds, the missing qaf and haggling, ending when a Cairene stays in Arabic with you for ten minutes.
- Gonzalo — Business Japanese Keigo for Email and Calls
Business Japanese keigo for foreign staff who freeze on humble forms, marked 1:1 for what is correct but still rude. Seven weeks of phone role-play and rewritten emails, from sonkeigo versus kenjougo to a full transfer, ending when three consecutive calls pass with no rudeness flag.
- Gordana — Spanish for Meeting the Family: Three Hours
Spanish for meeting the family, rehearsed 1:1 with an uncle talking over you instead of a polite classroom partner. Six weeks aimed at three hours at a Mexican table, ending when you answer twenty rapid-fire family questions without pausing to translate.
- Grace — Business English Email Writing That Sounds Polite
Business English email writing, taught 1:1 by an AI tutor that hears your draft as a British or American colleague would. Six weeks from Requests That Are Not Orders to British Understatement, drilled on messages you really need to send, until five drafts running need no softening.
- Gregor — German for Beginners Speaking at the Amt
German for beginners speaking practice: 1:1 role-play with an AI tutor in role as the clerk who will not switch to English. Six weeks from Booking The Anmeldung Termin to describing a symptom at the Hausarzt, ending when you get through each appointment in German alone.
- Guadalupe — Learn Hindi for Calls With Your Grandparents
Learn Hindi with an AI tutor that plays your nani at full speed, not another app that slows down for you. Eight weeks on health, weather and who married whom, until twenty minutes of a family call pass with no English.
- Guillermo — Maritime English: SMCP and the Marlins Test
Maritime English for deck cadets, run as 1:1 radio practice with an AI tutor rather than a phrase list to memorise. Six weeks of SMCP phrases, bridge handovers and a full Marlins-style listening set, ending when you read back ten consecutive orders with no ambiguity.
- Gunnar — Polski dla Obcokrajowcow: Work and the Urzad
Polski dla obcokrajowcow for Ukrainian speakers already working in Poland, with an AI tutor that catches the cognates nobody corrects. Six weeks of 1:1 role-play from the urzad counter to the shift briefing, ending when you get through three in a row with no false friends.
- Gwen — Raising a Bilingual Child With OPOL
Raising a bilingual child on OPOL, coached 1:1 by an AI tutor that knows month four is where it collapses. Eight weeks from bath time to playground negotiations, twenty usable phrases a session, ending when you log fourteen consecutive days without switching.
- Hafsa — Learn the Cyrillic Alphabet in a Weekend
Learn Cyrillic alphabet reading in a weekend with an AI tutor that corrects you aloud, not a chart to memorise. Six sessions on the letters that lie, real menus and chess surnames, until you read thirty unfamiliar names in three minutes.
- Hakim — Read Manga in Japanese Without Furigana
Read manga in Japanese without furigana, with an AI tutor that works from the seinen volume you already own. Eight weeks from radical lookup to speech registers and slang, built for N4 readers stalling on seinen, ending at a whole chapter unaided in forty minutes.
- Halle — Learn Tagalog: One Whole Conversation With Mum
Learn Tagalog as a heritage speaker who answers in English, taught 1:1 by an AI tutor that plays mum. Eight weeks from po and opo to a full Sunday phone call, ending when you hold thirty minutes without switching back.
- Hamza — Learn Turkish for the Ikamet and Errands
Learn Turkish for the errands a translation app keeps handling: the ikamet counter, the landlord, the pharmacy. Six weeks of 1:1 role-play with an AI tutor that drills case endings inside real transactions, ending when you get through each errand unaided.
- Hanna — Ukrainian for Russian Speakers: Kill the Surzhyk
Ukrainian for Russian speakers: 1:1 conversation with an AI tutor that names every surzhyk slip as it lands. Ten weeks from the surzhyk hit list to workplace Ukrainian, ending when you hold a fifteen-minute unscripted conversation with fewer than three interference slips.
- Harriet — Learn Vietnamese Tones Your Relatives Understand
Learn Vietnamese tones with an AI tutor that hears the errors you cannot hear yourself, not a video course. Eight weeks on nga versus hoi, final consonants and picking one dialect, until you order food and call a relative without being asked to repeat.
- Malia — English for Call Center Agents: Angry Callers
English for call center agents who go silent when a customer shouts, drilled 1:1 against a caller who swears and repeats himself. Four weeks from interrupting politely to ending a call that will not end, taking B1 speakers to three consecutive hostile calls held calm.
- Manon — German B2 for Nurses: Fachsprachpruefung Handover
German B2 for nurses recruited at B1, taught 1:1 by a tutor that corrects case endings and clinical wording alike. Twelve weeks of simulated shifts from Uebergabe to Pflegedokumentation, finished when two Fachsprachpruefung mock examinations pass on wording and clinical accuracy.
- Marnie — Business Chinese for Supplier Dinners
Business Chinese for sourcing managers flying to Shenzhen, drilled 1:1 against a supplier's general manager who toasts early and interrupts. Six spoken sessions from ganbei etiquette to pushing back on a quote, scored on tones and politeness, ending with a full eight-minute banquet run unaided.
- Nerissa — Business English for Meetings You Must Speak In
Business English for meetings, built for engineers who write flawless English and lose the point to whoever speaks first. Six weeks of ten-minute 1:1 meeting role-plays with an AI tutor that plays the colleague who talks over them, until they interrupt twice in a real standup.
- Nevin — Spanish for Law Enforcement: Stops and Welfare Checks
Spanish for law enforcement, drilled 1:1 by an AI tutor that uses only your department's consent script. Six weeks of timed roleplay for patrol officers and EMTs, from unambiguous commands to the welfare check at the door, until a supervisor hears no meaning errors.
- Niamh — Spanish for Social Workers: The Home Visit
Spanish for social workers on a caseload where a teenager currently translates the safety plan, taught 1:1 from your agency's approved translations. Six weeks of home-visit simulation on consent, mandated reporting and teach-back, and the visit only counts when the parent restates the safety plan correctly.
- Perpetua — English Speaking Practice for Newcomer Students
English speaking practice for students newly arrived in grades 4 to 8, ten private minutes at a time. Six weeks of classroom language from a tutor that recasts rather than interrupts, ending when a student answers aloud in class twice in one week.
Questions, answered
How do I practise English small talk before standup instead of going silent?
English small talk practice for engineers who go silent around standup, run 1:1 as live mock meetings where colleagues talk back. Six weeks of openers, follow-up questions and exits, ending when you hold ninety seconds of unscripted chat with no dead pause. Explore the Gia — English Small Talk Practice for Standups template.
I understand Spanish but cannot speak it, so how do I start answering?
Spanish for heritage speakers who follow every word at the table and still answer in English, spoken 1:1 from minute one. Eight weeks treating your comprehension as an asset, ending when you get through a whole Sunday lunch without switching back. Explore the Gideon — Spanish for Heritage Speakers: Answer Back template.
What Japanese do I actually need for two weeks of trains and izakayas?
Japanese phrases for travel, drilled 1:1 against a clerk who answers off-script instead of memorised from a phrasebook. Five blocks covering a ryokan check-in, a counter izakaya and a missed Shinkansen, ending when you survive ten unrehearsed second turns in a row. Explore the Gilles — Japanese Phrases for Travel: Two Weeks template.
How can I understand Korean dramas without subtitles instead of just reading them?
Learn Korean from Kdramas with a 1:1 listening tutor that trains your ear rather than your subtitle reading. Eight weeks on banmal, honorific switches and the contractions actors really use, ending when you retell a three-minute scene accurately with subtitles off. Explore the Giselle — Learn Korean from K-Dramas Without Subtitles template.
How do I practise explaining a diagnosis in English to a nervous patient?
Medical English for doctors who can brief a consultant but not a frightened family, practised 1:1 as simulated consultations. Seven weeks scored on jargon, signposting, empathy and silence, ending when a lay patient repeats your explanation back correctly. Explore the Gita — Medical English for Doctors: Explain It Plainly template.
How do I take a patient history in Spanish before the interpreter arrives?
Medical Spanish for the five minutes before the interpreter arrives, drilled 1:1 on numbers, negation and question forms. Six weeks of timed intakes with a patient who mumbles and hurries, ending when you complete three full intakes without switching to English. Explore the Giulio — Medical Spanish for Patient Intake template.
How do we train call centre agents to handle abusive callers in English?
English for call center agents who go silent when a customer shouts, drilled 1:1 against a caller who swears and repeats himself. Four weeks from interrupting politely to ending a call that will not end, taking B1 speakers to three consecutive hostile calls held calm. Explore the Malia — English for Call Center Agents: Angry Callers template.
How do I interrupt politely in English meetings without sounding rude?
Business English for meetings, built for engineers who write flawless English and lose the point to whoever speaks first. Six weeks of ten-minute 1:1 meeting role-plays with an AI tutor that plays the colleague who talks over them, until they interrupt twice in a real standup. Explore the Nerissa — Business English for Meetings You Must Speak In template.
How can my thirty ESL students get speaking practice between my lessons?
ESL conversation topics for a B1 class of thirty, where each student currently gets ninety seconds of speaking a lesson. Ten minutes of daily talk on this week's topic, ending in a ninety-second solo turn marked to CEFR B1 without switching languages. Explore the Ashwin — ESL Conversation Topics for B1 Speaking Practice template.
How do I stop my Spanish students forgetting everything between weekly lessons?
Spanish conversation practice for the adults you teach, who speak none between your weekly hour and sit around A2 to B1. Ten minutes a day recycling the structures you last taught, until a student opens the next lesson mid-conversation instead of warming up. Explore the Asim — Spanish Conversation Practice Between Weekly Lessons template.
How can my coaching clients rehearse a pitch twenty times before the meeting?
Business English coaching that adds twenty rehearsals to an hour with room for two, for executives whose English fails under stakes. A four-week cycle before each live event on hostile questions and numbers out loud, done when three unseen questions land without hedging. Explore the Astrid — Business English Coaching: Pitch and Negotiation Reps template.
Why do Americans keep asking me to repeat myself on work calls?
Accent reduction for Indian English speakers, taught 1:1 towards being understood on calls rather than sounding American. Eight weeks on V and W, retroflex T and D and word stress, ending when you give a five-minute update and nobody asks you to repeat. Explore the Gerda — Accent Reduction for Indian English Speakers template.
How do I learn enough ASL to sign with my deaf toddler now?
Learn ASL for parents of a deaf toddler in months, not semesters, with a 1:1 tutor that corrects English word order instantly. Twelve weeks grouped around meals, bath and bedtime, ending when you sign a whole bedtime routine without fingerspelling your way out. Explore the Gloria — Learn ASL for Parents: Bedtime and Meals template.
Should I learn Egyptian Arabic instead of MSA if I want to talk?
Learn Egyptian Arabic after a year of MSA nobody answers you in, with a tutor that refuses to meet you in fusha. Eight weeks on Cairo sounds, the missing qaf and haggling, ending when a Cairene stays in Arabic with you for ten minutes. Explore the Godfrey — Learn Egyptian Arabic, Not MSA template.
How do I stop sounding rude in Japanese business emails and phone calls?
Business Japanese keigo for foreign staff who freeze on humble forms, marked 1:1 for what is correct but still rude. Seven weeks of phone role-play and rewritten emails, from sonkeigo versus kenjougo to a full transfer, ending when three consecutive calls pass with no rudeness flag. Explore the Gonzalo — Business Japanese Keigo for Email and Calls template.
How do I prepare to meet my girlfriend's parents and speak Spanish?
Spanish for meeting the family, rehearsed 1:1 with an uncle talking over you instead of a polite classroom partner. Six weeks aimed at three hours at a Mexican table, ending when you answer twenty rapid-fire family questions without pausing to translate. Explore the Gordana — Spanish for Meeting the Family: Three Hours template.
Why do my English emails sound rude to colleagues and how do I fix that?
Business English email writing, taught 1:1 by an AI tutor that hears your draft as a British or American colleague would. Six weeks from Requests That Are Not Orders to British Understatement, drilled on messages you really need to send, until five drafts running need no softening. Explore the Grace — Business English Email Writing That Sounds Polite template.
How do our international nurses reach B2 German and pass the Fachsprachpruefung?
German B2 for nurses recruited at B1, taught 1:1 by a tutor that corrects case endings and clinical wording alike. Twelve weeks of simulated shifts from Uebergabe to Pflegedokumentation, finished when two Fachsprachpruefung mock examinations pass on wording and clinical accuracy. Explore the Manon — German B2 for Nurses: Fachsprachpruefung Handover template.
How can officers practise Spanish commands and consent questions before a real stop?
Spanish for law enforcement, drilled 1:1 by an AI tutor that uses only your department's consent script. Six weeks of timed roleplay for patrol officers and EMTs, from unambiguous commands to the welfare check at the door, until a supervisor hears no meaning errors. Explore the Nevin — Spanish for Law Enforcement: Stops and Welfare Checks template.
How do I explain a safety plan and get consent in Spanish?
Spanish for social workers on a caseload where a teenager currently translates the safety plan, taught 1:1 from your agency's approved translations. Six weeks of home-visit simulation on consent, mandated reporting and teach-back, and the visit only counts when the parent restates the safety plan correctly. Explore the Niamh — Spanish for Social Workers: The Home Visit template.