Speaking check · free · about three minutes
Am I stuck, or still improving?
Three short questions, one take each, like a conversation. You get a quick estimate of your speaking, in words, and what we heard you say.
- One thing you said well, to keep
- One thing to fix, quoted from your answers
It’s an estimate, never a score. It can be wrong, and it tells you how sure it is.
- About 3 minutesthree short answers
- Freeno account needed to start
- English, Russian or Spanishmore languages are being prepared
- Phone or computerwith a microphone, somewhere quiet
What we listen for
- Where you keep going.How long you can talk before a pause, and what you do when a word is missing.
- Your range.The words and sentence shapes you reach for, and how you link one idea to the next.
- What to work on next.What went well and what to work on, quoted from what you said.
What happens
Three questions, about three minutes.
The questions are on screen, in the language you’re checking. Answer out loud, like a conversation: one take each, no rehearsing. Each answer saves while you move on, so a weak connection doesn’t hold you up.
What you’ll doAbout 3 minutes
- An everyday questionYour life and your day.up to 45 s
- A storySomething that happened to you.up to 60 s
- Your viewAn opinion or a bigger question, picked for how your first two answers went.up to 60 s
No warm-up and no one-minute talk: three answers, about three minutes in all.
The full check
Full check, about 8 minutes
Five questions, then one minute on a topic. It hears more of your speaking, so it places you more closely and finds more to work on.
Your level on the CEFR scale, the A1 to C2 levels language schools across Europe use, given as an estimate. Then what went well and what to work on, each with a line you actually said.
Create your account and confirm your email, then you go straight to the start. Sign in
Example · English
EstimateB1, close to B2
You keep going on familiar topics and give reasons. Harder, more abstract topics still slow you down.
What went well
You linked your ideas well, with because, so and although.
“I moved there because the rent was lower, so I could save a bit every month.”
What to work on
Past tenses in stories: you often used the present when you meant the past.
“Last year I go to Spain and we stay in a small hotel near the beach.”
An invented example. Yours comes from your own answers.
Before you start
What it is, and what it isn’t.
- Our own estimate.Made automatically from your recordings: ElevenLabs or Deepgram writes down what you said, and Claude from Anthropic or Google Gemini compares it with the CEFR descriptions. Not an official exam, and not a certificate.
- Words, not scores.No marks and no percentages. The level comes with what it means and what to work on next.
- Honest when it can’t tell.If we didn’t hear enough to place you, we say so, and it doesn’t count as your free try.
- A start, not the whole story.Three minutes can’t show everything you can do, and the full check hears more. A tutor who hears you every week hears the most, and that is what the lessons are for.
- Your recordings.Kept for 12 months, for you and your tutor, and you can delete them any time. If you start without an account, we keep them for 24 hours while you confirm your email; if you don’t confirm, we delete them. A teacher working with us may listen to some recordings to check our estimates. Privacy notice
Ready when you are.
Find a quiet spot and give yourself three or four minutes.