Speaking Flashcards
Speaking Guide
Speak — Complete Walkthrough
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Speaking Flashcards
🇬🇧 Step-by-Step: Drill Your Own Pronunciation Errors
① Speaking Flashcards are auto-created from your weakest sentences in PTE Speaking, Free Talk, IELTS, TOEFL, the new 2026 task types (Respond to a Situation → pragmatic-response cards, Summarize Group Discussion → speaker-resummary cards, TOEFL Listen & Repeat → audio-repeat cards, TOEFL Take an Interview → opinion-expand cards), and from each weak phoneme flagged in the Diagnostic. ② Open "Speaking Flashcards" from the Speak menu (or via "View in Library"). You will see all your speaking cards with source badges (PTE, Free Talk, Pron Lab, RTS, SGD, L&R, Interview, etc.) and target-phoneme chips. ③ Each card has a 3-level drill ladder. Classic cards (PTE / Free Talk / Lab): Set 1 — minimal-pair recognition (multiple-choice listen-and-pick), Set 2 — single-word production (record one target word), Set 3 — full sentence production (record the whole sentence). ④ The four new 2026 drill kinds use bespoke 3-set ladders tailored to the task: pragmatic-response cards drill recognition → ordering → production; speaker-resummary cards drill speaker attribution → completion → re-summarisation; audio-repeat cards drill cloze → dictation → full-repeat production; opinion-expand cards drill opener → supporting reasons → full response. ⑤ Every card runs on the same 8-day spaced-repetition schedule as your vocabulary and writing cards. Due cards surface in /speak and on your main Dashboard's Today's Reviews list. ⑥ Click "Review" on any card to start its current due day. Pass ≥ 75% to mark the day complete and advance the schedule; fail and you can immediately retry with fresh drills. ⑦ Use search + filters (sourceKind, sourceFeature, drillKind, sortKey) to find cards fast. Bulk-select to delete in batches. ⑧ Why it works: speaking errors are the most personal data we have — drilling them with progressive recognition → production cycles is the fastest path from "tink" to "think".
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Turn every speaking mistake into a fluency superpower
Speaking Flashcards capture the exact words and phrases you struggled with — from PTE, IELTS, TOEFL, Pronunciation Lab, Shadowing, or live AI conversations — and rebuild them into a personalised 3-level drill ladder that you replay on a science-backed 8-day spaced-repetition schedule.
Recognise
minimal pairs
Produce
word + sentence
Retain
8-day SRS
How it works
From mistake to mastered — in 4 steps
Every flashcard runs the same proven loop, no matter where it came from.
Speak
Record any speaking task — PTE, IELTS, TOEFL, Shadowing, Pronunciation Lab, or a live AI conversation.
Save
AI flags the exact words and phrases that need work. One tap turns each one into a flashcard.
Drill
3-level ladder: hear & recognise → say single words → say full sentences. Built to rewire your mouth.
Retain
Reappears on day 1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 30, 60, 90 — the proven spacing for permanent fluency.
New: live AI conversations now feed Speaking Flashcards too
Have a real back-and-forth chat with our AI partner — every imperfect sentence becomes a one-tap flashcard with the same 3-level drill ladder.
Where cards come from
8 ways to start filling your library
Tap any tile to start a session.
PTE Speaking
Read Aloud · Repeat Sentence · Describe Image · RTS · SGD
Pronunciation Lab
Phoneme diagnostic · Minimal pairs · Word stress · Intonation
Free Talk + Live AI
Solo monologues · multi-turn conversations · stuck-moment hints
IELTS Speaking
Part 1 · Part 2 cue card · Part 3 discussion
TOEFL Speaking
Independent · Integrated · Listen & Repeat · Take Interview
Speaking Practice Hub
Quick-check + deep-dive on any single task type
Read aloud a passage
Speak about anything you read — passage context carries over
Speak about a video
After watching, voice your reaction — vocab + topic preserved
The science
Why your speaking actually improves here
Spaced repetition
8-day schedule (1, 2, 4, 7, 14, 30, 60, 90) tested across millions of language learners — proven to multiply retention by 3-5×.
Production beats recognition
Saying a word out loud activates 4× more brain regions than re-reading it. Our 3-level ladder ends with full sentence production.
Just-in-time practice
Cards reappear right before you'd forget — the optimal window for long-term memory consolidation.
Real mistakes only
No generic word lists. Every card comes from a sentence you actually said — and got wrong. That's why it sticks.
Take it further
Speaking Flashcards work across the whole platform
Today's reviews
Drill due Speaking cards alongside vocab + writing in one queue.
Unified Library
See speaking, writing & vocab cards side-by-side — filter, search, manage.
Speaking Stats
Track band trends, fluency metrics, problem phonemes over time.
Writing Flashcards
See the matching grammar/vocab cards from your writing tasks.
Read & speak
Read a passage at your level, then voice your reaction — context carries over.
Watch & speak
Hear natives, then practise reacting in your own words about the same topic.
AI Tutor
Ask anything about your saved sentences — grammar, alternatives, why it's wrong.
Progress dashboard
See speaking mastery alongside reading, writing, listening — one view.
