Apps to practice speaking a language

The cheapest way to speak the language every week, if you choose the tutor well.

A huge choice of tutors at every price; pick carefully.

Real classes on a timetable; costly per minute of speaking.

Free conversation partners, screened at sign-up; unstructured by nature.

Free text and voice exchange with native speakers; not a course.

Record sentences, get a human coach's pronunciation notes; free to start.

Best for speaking from day one on a commute; thin on vocabulary.

High-volume listen-and-repeat sentence training; best beside a course.

Watch, copy and chat with AI, 15 minutes a day, in five courses on one plan.

Speak-from-lesson-one phrases for beginners and travellers; paid after a free lesson.

The quickest way to hear how one word is really pronounced.

Audio-only, no homework, in 19 languages; a quick way to start building sentences.

Talk-first AI practice with on-the-spot corrections; paid after the trial.

Daily AI speaking practice with instant corrections; not a real conversation.

One-time-purchase audio courses in 14 languages; try the free lessons first.

Lots of out-loud speaking practice with an AI tutor; paid after a 7-day trial.

Ten free minutes of AI conversation a day; Premium removes the limit.

One-to-one tutors in a built-in video classroom; choose the teacher carefully.