AI conversation practice, in any language
The behavioural interview
Ordering at the counter
Somewhere else entirely
In short
What AI conversation practice is
AI conversation practice is a spoken, two-way roleplay with an AI partner: it speaks, you answer out loud, and it replies to what you actually said. NativeSpeech runs it in 62 languages, scores your pronunciation on every sentence you speak, and hands the whole session back to you as a report at the end.
It is speaking practice, not a written exercise. You are not picking an answer from a list or typing into a chat window — you are holding the floor in a real exchange, in a language you are still learning, with something that answers in a native voice and remembers what you said three turns ago.
Any language
Conversation practice in 62 languages, not just English
Every language named below is a full conversation: the partner speaks it in a native voice, understands you in it, corrects you in it, and reports back on it. There is no primary language here and no second-class one — a Japanese learner and a Spanish learner get the same feature, and someone practising two at once just changes the selector.
With sound-by-sound pronunciation feedback — 43 languages and accents
- Arabic
- Arabic (Egypt)
- Bengali
- Catalan
- Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified)
- Chinese (Taiwanese Mandarin)
- Chinese (Cantonese, Traditional)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English (US)
- English (UK)
- English (Australia)
- English (Canada)
- English (India)
- Finnish
- French (France)
- French (Canada)
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malay
- Norwegian
- Persian
- Polish
- Portuguese (PT)
- Portuguese (BR)
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish (ES)
- Spanish (MX)
- Swedish
- Tamil
- Thai
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
Full conversations, less detailed scoring — 29 languages and accents
- Afrikaans
- Albanian
- Amharic
- Armenian
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Estonian
- Filipino
- Gujarati
- Icelandic
- Kannada
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Malayalam
- Maltese
- Marathi
- Punjabi
- Serbian
- Sinhala
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Swahili
- Telugu
- Urdu
- Welsh
- Zulu
In the first group — 33 of the 62 languages, counted by language rather than by accent — the report can name the vowel or consonant that cost you the score. In the second, the conversation, the corrections and the report all work identically and the scoring is simply less granular; the language selector says which you are choosing before you walk in.
How it works
Four steps from opening the page to a report
- Step 1
Choose your language and partner
Pick any of 62 languages and 72 accents, choose the voice your partner answers in, and set how long the session runs.
- Step 2
Walk into a scenario
Take one of 8 roleplays — a job interview, a café counter, a doctor's appointment — or type your own topic and get a scenario written for it.
- Step 3
Speak, out loud, in turns
Press to talk and answer in full sentences. The partner replies to the substance of what you said, asks follow-ups, and nudges a word back to you when it came out wrong.
- Step 4
Read the report
At the end you get a pronunciation score, the sounds and words that cost you the most, better ways to phrase what you were reaching for, and a drill built from your own weakest words.
What people rehearse
The conversations worth having twice before you have them once
Most speaking anxiety is about one specific five minutes: the interview on Thursday, the call you keep postponing, the appointment in a language you can only read. Those five minutes are what this is for. You can walk into the same room as often as you like, and then the first time you do it for real is not the first time you have done it.
Job interviews
Answer behavioural questions out loud, with follow-ups on what you actually said, until the story you tell about your own work stops falling apart halfway through.
Work in a second language
Standups, a call with an unhappy customer, the small talk at an event where everyone else is fluent — the parts of a job that are speaking rather than working.
Moving abroad
A doctor's appointment, an apartment viewing, an airport desk: the errands that are trivial at home and daunting in a language you learned out of a book.
Speaking exams
IELTS, TOEFL, OPI and school orals are all a stranger asking you to talk for two minutes. Practising the format is most of the preparation, and the report names the sounds an examiner will notice.
Everyday fluency
Ordering, asking directions, keeping a conversation going past the point where you would normally switch back to English. Short sessions, most days, in your own accent.
Anything you type in
If the situation you dread is not in the pack, describe it in a sentence and a roleplay is written for it — your viva, your landlord, your in-laws.
Questions
Questions about practising conversation with AI
- What is AI conversation practice?
- AI conversation practice is a spoken, two-way roleplay with an AI partner: it speaks, you answer out loud, and it replies to what you actually said. NativeSpeech runs it in 62 languages, scores your pronunciation on every sentence you speak, and hands the whole session back to you as a report at the end.
- Which languages can I practise conversation in?
- All 62 languages the app supports, across 72 accents and regional variants — including Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Vietnamese, and English in US, UK, Australian, Canadian and Indian accents. Every one of them is a real spoken conversation. Sound-by-sound pronunciation feedback is available in 33 of them; in the rest the conversation, the corrections and the report work the same way, but the scoring is less detailed.
- Do I need a partner, a tutor or a booking?
- No. There is nobody to schedule and no time zone to work around — you open the page and start talking. The partner is there at any hour, never gets impatient, and will run the same conversation again as many times as you want.
- Does it correct my mistakes while we talk?
- Yes, the way a patient native speaker would. It answers what you said first, then works the better phrasing into its own reply instead of stopping the conversation to grade you. When a word comes out badly mispronounced it asks you to say that word again, at most twice, and then leaves it for the report.
- Is it free?
- You get 2 free conversations to try, up to 8 turns, with no card and no account required — complete conversations with a beginning and an end, not samples. They are a trial rather than a daily ration, so use them whenever you like; when they are gone, a paid plan is what keeps you talking, and it lifts the 8-turn ceiling with it. One credit covers 5 minutes of talking, and only the minutes you are actually using count.
- What do I need to get started?
- A browser and a microphone. Nothing to install, no headset required, and it works on a phone as well as a laptop — though headphones help the partner hear you rather than itself.
- Can I practise a specific situation, like an interview or an appointment?
- Yes. Alongside the 8 scenarios in the pack you can describe your own situation in a sentence, and a roleplay is written for it — the partner takes the other side of it, in the language and accent you chose.
- How is this different from a chatbot?
- A chatbot is typing. This is speaking: your voice is transcribed and scored as you go, the partner answers out loud in a native voice, and the thing being trained is your mouth rather than your writing.
Nearby
The rest of the way to practise speaking
A conversation tells you what to work on. These are where the work happens.
Pronunciation checker
Read one line and have it scored word by word and sound by sound. Check your pronunciation.
Read anything
Turn any article, page or document into a reading-out-loud session. Read anything aloud.
Text to speech
Hear a native voice say the exact sentence you are trying to say. Generate speech.
Courses
Structured paths for working in English, with drills between the lessons. Browse courses.
Everyone gets 2 free conversations to try, up to 8 turns — whole sessions, not trailers. Once they are used up, a paid plan is what keeps you talking, and it lifts the 8-turn ceiling with it.