For non-native English speakers · Healthcare & patients
Sound sure of yourself
in healthcare & patients.
Explain, reassure and deliver hard news with care. Your grammar is not the problem. What makes English sound confident is which word takes the weight, where the pause goes, and where the voice rises and falls — and nobody teaches that. Below are real lines for this situation with those three things marked. Hear each one said well, record yours, and see how close you came. Free, no account.
gold = the word that takes the weight · ‖ = a pause · ↗ the voice rises · ↘ the voice lands · → stays up, more to come
8 of 100 lines in this path
Lines people actually say.
Marked by the same engine that marks your own script in the app. The gold word is the one to lean on; everything else is lighter than you think.
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hardExplaining to patients
Explaining a diagnosis
The scan shows a small tear in the tendon.
It is not dangerous.
It is why it hurts when you lift.
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hardDifficult news
Answering how long
I cannot give you a number I believe in.
What I can tell you is what usually happens and what we watch for.
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mediumChoices and consent
Explaining a trial
This is a study.
You may get the new treatment or the standard one.
You can leave at any point.
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easyColleagues and handover
A ward round update
Day three.
Improving.
Off oxygen since this morning.
Home tomorrow if the bloods are stable.
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easyEveryday practice
Explaining a prescription change
I am stopping one of these and starting another.
The old one was not helping and it was making you tired.
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mediumEmergency and acute
A rapid assessment
I am going to ask quick questions.
Short answers are fine.
When did the pain start?
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hardLong-term and palliative
A family meeting
We are all here because we want the same thing for her.
Let me tell you where we are medically.
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easyAllied and nursing
A dental explanation
There is a small cavity here.
One filling, twenty minutes, and it will not get worse.
Hear this line said well →
What this path covers
The moments inside it.
- Explaining a diagnosisPlain words, no jargon
- Difficult newsHonest, unhurried, kind
- Talking through optionsRisks and choices, clearly
- Clinical handoverPrecise and fast
One last thing
Hear it in a voice like yours,
then in yours.
Pick the accent closest to yours and hear one voice say a line flat, then confident — same words, same accent. Then practise any of these lines against it. Your own voice takes a ten-second read and a free account. No card.