For non-native English speakers · Teaching & explaining
Sound sure of yourself
in teaching & explaining.
Make a hard thing simple, and make it stick. 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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easyExplaining clearly
Starting from zero
Forget everything you've read about it.
Here's the one thing it actually does.
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easyHandling questions
The same question again
Ask me as many times as you need.
If it's not landing, that's my explanation, not your listening.
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mediumFeedback and correction
Correcting in public
Small correction, and it's a common one — it's the other way round.
Carry on, you're doing fine.
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easyRunning a session
Running over
We're out of time and we're not finished.
Two more minutes on the important part, then I'll stop.
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mediumOnboarding and mentoring
Teaching a habit, not a fact
Don't memorise this.
Learn to look it up quickly.
That's the actual skill.
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mediumMaking it stick
The retrieval question
Do not look at your notes.
What are the three steps?
Getting it wrong now is how it sticks.
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hardWhen it is not working
When they are not trying
You have not done any of it.
I am not annoyed, I want to know what is going on.
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easyDocumentation and demos
Recording a walkthrough
This is a five-minute walkthrough.
Pause it whenever.
It will still be here tomorrow.
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What this path covers
The moments inside it.
- Explaining a conceptFrom scratch, to a beginner
- Walking through a processStep by step, out loud
- Answering a questionWithout making them feel small
- Correcting gentlyFix the work, keep the confidence
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.