The hardest English isn't the textbook stuff. It's the casual conversation that has no agenda - small talk, weekend plans, what you watched last night. Practice that here. Voice-to-voice with an AI partner who listens, responds, and doesn't grade your grammar. Free.
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The other practice modes have a setup - interview, meeting, debate. This one doesn't. You sit down, the AI says hello, and you talk. About your day, your weekend, the weather, whatever's on your mind. Real fluency lives in unplanned conversation.
Researchers call it 'phatic communication' - the social oil that keeps human relationships moving. Most language courses skip it because it's not testable. We rebuilt practice around it: opening lines, follow-up questions, graceful exits, the rhythm of give-and-take.
Nothing kills casual conversation faster than being corrected. We don't interrupt you. The structured feedback comes after the session - recurring grammar issues, register choices, filler patterns - so the conversation itself stays a conversation.
There's a paradox in English learning: people who can give a polished 10-minute presentation often freeze when a stranger asks 'how was your weekend?' Casual conversation feels easier because the stakes are lower, but it's actually harder - there's no script, no clear goal, no time to prepare. You have to generate fluent speech in real-time about whatever happens to come up.
That's the muscle this mode trains. The AI takes the role of a stranger you've just met - at a coffee shop, at a quiet bar, on a slow afternoon - and starts a conversation the way a friendly real person would. They might ask what brought you here. They might mention the weather. They might tell you about their dog. Your job is to keep the conversation going naturally - react, ask back, share a small detail, follow a thread.
Sessions are short on purpose. Five to ten minutes is enough to surface the patterns you actually need to fix. Most users discover the same handful of weaknesses over and over: too few follow-up questions, weak transitions ('um... and... so...'), defaulting to 'good' when 'tough' or 'low-key' or 'all over the place' would land better. The post-session report points these out specifically with concrete phrasing upgrades.
The personalization engine learns from every session. If you keep saying 'I think maybe' as a hedge, you'll see drills targeting confident phrasing. If you over-use 'very' (very tired, very nice, very busy), the next drill swaps it for words that carry their weight. Small fixes, repeated, compound into the kind of natural speech that doesn't sound translated from your native language.
The conversation partner won't ask you scripted questions. It won't ask 'what is your favorite color' or 'tell me about your hobbies' the way a textbook would. It'll ask things real people ask - what you're avoiding this week, what your plan is for the weekend, what you think of the show everyone's talking about. The conversations feel real because they don't follow a curriculum.
Voice-to-voice is the right format for this. Typed practice trains a different skill - useful, but not the same. Speaking out loud activates muscle memory in your mouth and breath that no amount of reading or writing builds. Five minutes of voice practice a day, every day, beats an hour of typing once a week.
The honest answer: alone you can't, fully. Conversation requires another voice. What works: AI conversation practice (closest to the real thing), language exchange partners (free but unreliable scheduling), and tutors (effective but expensive). fluentwith is the AI version - voice-to-voice, on demand, free, with structured feedback after every session.
Casual mode has no scenario. Workplace mode runs you through standups and meetings. Interview mode runs you through behavioral questions. Casual mode just lets the conversation go where it goes. Use it when you want low-pressure practice, when you're not preparing for anything specific, or when you're warming up before a high-stakes conversation later.
No. We deliberately don't. Mid-conversation corrections kill the conversation - you start watching your own speech instead of communicating. All feedback waits for the post-session report: a structured breakdown with five scores, an annotated transcript, and concrete phrasing upgrades. Then you go into the next session knowing what to work on.
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5 to 15 minutes. Long enough to settle into a real rhythm, short enough that you can squeeze it into a coffee break. Most users do 1-2 sessions a day, 5 days a week, and report visible improvement in conversational confidence within 3 weeks.
It won't. The AI partner has no memory of previous sessions (unless you opt-in to memory) and no record of how 'good' you sounded. You'll find yourself relaxing into the conversation faster than you expect. The shyness is real - the judgment isn't.
Yes, with a caveat. The AI is patient in ways native speakers aren't always. Real-world conversations are faster, less forgiving of pauses, and full of references the AI doesn't have. But the speaking-fluency, vocabulary breadth, and confidence you build here transfer directly. Many users use casual mode as warmup before real meetings or social events.