Practice English out loud with your own AI tutor

What practicing out loud with PracticeAloud looks like

The sections above are the short version. This is the long one — who the tutor is for, what a lesson is like, and what happens between lessons.

Who it is for

You can read English, follow a film with subtitles, maybe write a decent email — and then someone asks you a question out loud and the sentence that was ready in your head comes out in pieces. That gap is the one this tutor works on. Speaking is a skill of its own, and it grows only by speaking, with someone who listens and answers back.

It suits people with a reason to speak soon: a job interview, a move, a meeting you have been dreading, an exam with a spoken part. It also suits people who have studied for years and never had regular conversation. It is not a course you watch. If you are not going to talk, it has nothing to give you.

What a lesson is like

A lesson is a 30-minute conversation with your teacher, in your browser, by voice. There is no list of answers to pick from and no script to read: the teacher asks, you answer, and the lesson goes where your plan says it should. Some of it is a scenario — a job interview, a doctor’s appointment, renting an apartment — in which the teacher plays the other person. Some of it is plain talk about your week, because that is what most real English is.

When something is unclear, the teacher explains it in your native language, out loud, and then returns to English. Beginners get more of that; it fades as your level rises.

A lesson counts only after ten minutes. If your connection drops before that, it is not charged; if you rejoin within five minutes, you continue where you were. Lessons stop at 45 minutes, because a short lesson every day does more than a long one every month.

What happens after

The lesson is analysed once it ends, not while it runs, so the conversation is never interrupted for bookkeeping. You get a report card: what went well, the corrections with your own sentences in them, the new words you used, and how many minutes you actually spoke. The plan adjusts to what the analysis found.

Then comes the homework. It is built from your own mistakes — flashcards for the words, gap-fills for the grammar you got wrong, listening and reading at your level, short writing when the plan calls for it — and it is scheduled to come back when you are about to forget it. Doing it feeds the next lesson: your teacher starts from your homework results, not from a blank page. That is the loop, and it is what makes lesson twenty better than lesson two.

One teacher, who remembers

You have one teacher, not a cast of characters. They remember your goal, your level, the mistakes you keep making and the ones you have stopped making, and they bring that into every lesson. Why that matters is a longer story; the short version is that a tutor without a memory teaches the same first lesson forever.

Behind the teacher is a CEFR curriculum written by a credentialed teacher-methodologist, and a human who spot-checks lessons and plans. The AI runs the lesson; it does not invent the course.

What it costs, and how to start

The first lesson is a free intake of about 15 minutes, with no card: you talk, the teacher listens, and you leave with a level estimate and a study plan. After that, plans start at $19 a month — from $1.15 a lesson — with a 7-day money-back guarantee on your first purchase and cancellation at any time. Unused lessons roll over for a month.

If your reason for practicing is the US citizenship interview, that has its own page: both civics question banks are published here in full — the 100 questions of the 2008 test and the 128 questions of the 2025 test — free to drill, and the spoken mock interview is a separate, one-time purchase.

Everything else you might want to know — connection problems, refunds, privacy, what is and is not supported yet — is in the FAQ, and there is more on how the teaching works on the blog.