Real-life speaking practice for everyday English learners
Speak through real life.Not a scripted lesson.
Talk through airports, phone calls, errands, landlords, dinners, and the moments nobody scripts. Scenes move, time jumps, and new people enter. The app fixes your exact words, helps with pronunciation, and brings the correction back tomorrow as a new speaking task.
- $0 charged in our testing · Gemini Free Tier
- No credit card
- No Bedside English account
Available now on Google Play.
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A real, unscripted exchange — speak whenever you are ready.
Real life does not wait for the sentence you rehearsed. The place changes, someone new walks in, and you still have to answer.
That is the skill this mode trains: understand what changed, answer out loud, and keep the conversation moving before you have time to translate.
One practice loop, five steps
One live conversation. One exact fix. Then say it again tomorrow.
Speak in an unscripted scene, get the one correction that matters first, then meet it again as a new speaking task. Every screen below is a real Android capture — pick any step.
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Talk to an everyday conversation partner in your own words. They answer out loud, you can interrupt naturally, and Ear-only practice can hide the AI’s words when you want a real listening challenge.
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At an airport gate, you may choose to go to the information desk alone. Remember the new boarding time and gate, then come back. The AI asks what you learned — now you have to relay it in English. The conversation can also move somewhere else, skip ahead in time, or bring in someone new, and you decide whether each change happens.
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Naturalness, interaction, comprehension and fluency, each out of 100 and each measured from what you really said. One error is marked "Fix this first" and explained in your own language.
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Say "quite" so it lands closer to "koit" and the app hears it. It becomes a minimal-pair drill, and you have to identify the sound three times in a row before it lets you try saying it — you can only fix a sound you can hear.
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The correction becomes a spaced card — but you do not flip it and nod. You are dropped into a new situation and asked to say the corrected sentence out loud before you can mark it as learned.
What you leave with
Not "good job". The sentence, and why you got it wrong.
- What you saiddoes the nutritional yeast means
- What to saydoes nutritional yeast mean
Korean has no articles, which often leads to inserting "the" before general nouns — and "does" already carries the tense, so the main verb stays bare. The app names the rule and the first-language habit behind it, in your own language.
After the conversation
The conversation ends. The practice doesn’t.
Review your coaching, fluency, pronunciation findings, session history, and cost estimates — all from real practice sessions.
One score, then coaching
How you actually sounded
A drill list you did not write
Every session, searchable
Cost, in the open
Free to use. Nothing to subscribe to.
Demo Mode needs no API key. For live AI practice, create a Gemini Free Tier key with your Google account — no credit card or billing setup required. Every practice session shown here stayed within that tier, so $0 was charged.
- No subscription
- No Bedside English account
- No ads
- Open source
The app still shows estimated paid-tier equivalents per session, so potential costs are visible before you enable billing. Google sets Free Tier model availability and limits.
Is Free Tier really free? →Before you download
The awkward questions.
Can I try it without an API key?
Yes. Demo Mode ships with three scripted patients and runs immediately — no key, no account, no network setup. It is there so you can see whether the flow suits you before deciding anything.
Why do I have to bring my own Gemini key?
Because it keeps the app subscription-free. Create a Gemini Free Tier key with your Google account — no credit card or billing setup required. You only add payment details if you later choose the Paid Tier. Every practice session shown here stayed on the Free Tier, with $0 charged, and the key stays encrypted on your phone.
Is the Free Tier actually free?
Yes — $0, no credit card required. There's a fair trade-off worth knowing: Google may use your free-tier prompts and responses to improve its products, and real rate limits apply, resetting on a fixed clock time rather than a countdown. See exactly how it works, sourced to Google's own docs →
Does this require medical knowledge?
No. Survival English is a complete everyday mode built around airports, phone calls, errands, housing, food, small talk, and other real-life situations. No medical knowledge is needed.
Where do my recordings and transcripts go?
Your session history is stored on your device. When an AI feature needs it, the required audio, text, and exercise context go directly to Google under your own key — not through a Bedside English account or practice server. There are no ads, and telemetry is inactive in the current release.
Does it include clinical English too?
Yes. Bedside English began with AI patient conversations for clinical English, and that full mode is still included. You can use only Everyday mode if medicine is not relevant to you.
Next time, let the English come out first.
Practice everyday English alone, out loud, inside a conversation that answers back and keeps moving. Free on Android with no Bedside English account required.
Available now on Google Play.
Start web appiPhone · iPad · PC