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  • Verbalta

    $12.99per month

    Daily practice with a coach that remembers you.

    • 2 hours of conversation a week
    • Progress across sessions
    • Interview and meeting scenarios
    • Weekly summary
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Two hours with a tutor. Or a whole year with Verbalta.

Verbalta

$99/ a whole year

  • Practice 15 minutes a day and that is about $2 an hour of speaking
  • Practice every day, not once a week
  • Ready at 6 a.m. or at midnight, in the app you already have
  • No one watching you get it wrong

Private business English tutor

$100/ two hours

  • A weekly lesson at $50 adds up to about $2,600 a year
  • Scheduled around someone else’s availability
  • Feedback varies from session to session
  • Speaking up in front of a person can be the hard part

Built on how people learn to speak

Backed by published research. Not by how apps keep you opening them.

  1. You get pushed to say more

    Fluency doesn't come from being understood on the first try. It comes from reaching for something just past what you can comfortably say. When your answer is short, your tutor asks for more.

    Output pressureSwain (1985)

  2. You do the same conversation twice

    Repeating a task weeks later improves fluency and range, and it's the clearest proof of progress you'll get. Two attempts at the same question, one month apart.

    Task repetitionBygate (2001)

  3. Your mistakes come back on a schedule

    Corrections spread across days and weeks stick. Corrections given once don't. Yours return on days 1, 3, 7, and 21. Inside conversation, never as flashcards.

    Spaced retrievalCepeda et al. (2006)

  4. You get corrected without being stopped

    Feedback works. Interruption doesn't. Your tutor rephrases what you said the way a patient native speaker would, then keeps going.

    Corrective feedbackLi (2010)

  5. Real situations, not grammar drills

    Meaningful tasks beat grammar instruction for spoken fluency. So you practice the interview, the negotiation, the client call, not exercises about them.

    Task-based practiceEllis (2003)

Verbalta's method draws on established research in second-language acquisition.