How much input to take in, shadowing, how to use a tutor or a language exchange, the CEFR self-check and keeping a record.
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Tool
Tick the speaking tasks you can do today and get one next step to try. This site's own list, grouped under A1 to B2. Not the official grid, an exam or a level.
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How-to
Pick listening or reading you can mostly follow with a one-minute test, then say three things about it aloud. A daily routine, this site's own, untested with learners.
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How-to
Shadowing means saying a short clip aloud along with the speaker. A five-step House routine for one clip, and the rules for counting Spoken Minutes.
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How-to
Five ways to speak a new language with nobody around, from narrating to shadowing, and a House routine for checking yourself with a recording.
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Plan
A House routine agenda for 30- or 60-minute tutor lessons: a Cold Say-Back, a main talk, corrections said back and exit lines, plus what to send ahead.
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How-to
A House routine for language exchanges: two timed halves, corrections agreed first, help in your partner's half, and new partners met online or in public.
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Tool
A speaking log that stays in your browser. By this site's House routine, alone counts in full, conversation counts half, and 20 make a mile, a record, not a level.