How it works

1. What this is

Animated explainer — nine scenes, about seventy seconds. Press play, or use the arrow keys. Open it on its own page if you want to share it.

FluentVerify is a speaking test. It takes about twelve minutes, and about five of them are you speaking. We measure what you said and send you a report.

The report answers two questions:

• What makes listeners work harder? Specific sounds, in specific words.
• What is already fine? So you stop spending time on it.

It is like an eye test. An eye test tells you what your eyes do. It does not sell you glasses. You take the result to whoever helps you next.

Short version

2. Why measure first

Most people are told one of two things. "Your English is great." Or "you have an accent." Neither sentence helps, because you cannot act on it.

So people practise everything at once — grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, confidence — for years, and most of that effort goes on things that were never the problem.

Measuring first tells you where to spend your time. If your rhythm is the thing costing listeners effort, working on vocabulary will not fix it, however many hours you give it.

3. How the assessment works

1. Find a quiet place. Noise in the background makes the measurement wrong. We check the sound quality of every recording and ask you to record again if it is too noisy. Headphones help, but your laptop microphone is fine.
2. Check your microphone. Say anything out loud. A bar moves when we can hear you. Nothing is recorded yet.
3. For each part: press Start, speak, press Stop. There are five parts. Each screen shows you exactly what to say or read. A red dot and a clock tell you it is recording. A bar shows the minimum length and the ideal length.
4. Listen, then keep it or record again. You can play back every recording before you keep it. If you stumbled, record it again — it costs nothing. Small mistakes are normal and we expect them.
5. Score the assessment. Nothing is measured until this point. Scoring costs one credit. If you are not signed in, you create an account first — your recordings are saved and attach to it, so you never record twice.

You can stop and come back. Finished recordings are saved as you go. If you close the page by accident, open it again and you continue where you stopped.

4. How to read your report

The level (A1 to C2)

These come from the Common European Framework, the scale used in language teaching worldwide. A1 is a beginner. C2 is the most advanced. You get a level for each thing we measure, not just one overall number — because most people are not the same level at everything.

Why it says "provisional"

Because we are being honest about what we have proven. The measurements are real. The exact line between one level and the next comes from a study we have not finished yet, so that boundary may move slightly. We will remove the word when the study is done, and not before.

The findings, in order

Your findings are not sorted by how bad they are. They are sorted by how much they cost a listener. Saying right when you mean light changes the word — hundreds of English words differ only by that pair. Saying sink for think is noticeable but rarely confusing, because context fixes it.

Fixing the top item buys you more than fixing the most frequent one. That is deliberate.

The sounds table

This shows where the speech model was confident enough to name a specific sound it heard instead of the expected one, with a confidence number next to it. Sounds are written in the model's own alphabet, so they do not always look like the spelling: aw is the vowel in "now", ax is the faint "uh" in the middle of "vowels".

A line marked heard once is a single observation, not a pattern. Treat it as a thing to watch, not a conclusion.

"Not assessed"

This means we could not measure that item from your recordings — perhaps the sound quality was too poor, or the part it needs was skipped. It does not mean you scored badly. We would rather tell you we do not know than invent a number.

Printing and saving

There is a print button on the report. It works with a printer, and it also works with "Save as PDF". Everything hidden behind a ? is opened automatically before printing, so the paper copy is complete.

5. What to do next

We do not teach, so the report is where our part ends. Take it to a teacher or coach and ask them to work on the top two findings. You will know what to ask for, which is the thing most people cannot do at the start.

If you do not have someone, our directory of teachers and coaches lists people by speciality — including the specific areas this report names.