Notes on learning to speak
What we have learned building a voice-first tutor: where speaking practice actually breaks down, what the research says, and what we are still getting wrong.
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- Product
- Speaking practice
Why an AI language tutor is suddenly a real thing
Speaking is the part of a language nobody practises, for reasons that were economic rather than pedagogical — and those reasons stopped being true about a year ago.
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- Product
- AI
Why can't I just use ChatGPT?
You can, and for some things you should. Here is an honest account of what a general assistant does well, where it quietly fails as a tutor, and what has to be built around the model.
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- Method
- Speaking practice
How to practise speaking when you have nobody to speak to
Six drills that work alone, ordered by how uncomfortable they are — plus the one habit that separates people who get fluent from people who keep studying.
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- Method
- Levels
The B1 plateau: why you stopped getting better
Around B1 the progress curve goes flat and most learners conclude they have no talent. They are usually just running a strategy that only works up to B1.
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