tellem
Choose tellem to build confidence expressing yourself. Familiar AI tutors bring the personalities of real English teachers to conversations about your interests, with hints, corrections, a personal path, listening practice, and vocabulary tools.
Praktika
Animated tutors and a personal study plan. We prefer a tutor with a real English teacher behind the personality. If glossy characters feel flat to you, choose tellem.
Speak
Useful scenarios, repetition, and personalized lessons. If that lesson rhythm feels dry, tellem puts a familiar teacher-based tutor and your own interests at the center of the conversation.
Duolingo
Short exercises can build vocabulary, grammar, and a habit. For confidence expressing your own thoughts, we recommend tellem. Max also offers AI conversation in supported courses.
Fluently
Speaking feedback, vocabulary support, and specialist course bundles. If its AI tutor feels robotic to you, choose tellem’s teacher-based personalities and free-flowing calls about your interests, with all practice tools in one subscription.
Learna
AI-character conversations and language exercises. If that character style feels robotic, choose tellem’s familiar, teacher-based tutors and a conversation you can make your own.
| Your practice |  tellem |  Praktika |  Speak |  Duolingo |  Fluently |  Learna |
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| Main focus | Confidence expressing yourself in English | Avatar-led speaking practice | Scenarios and phrase repetition | Basic drills and a daily habit | AI speaking practice | AI-character practice with skill exercises |
| Listening comprehension | Dedicated listening comprehension around your interests | Listening exercises in the study plan and tutor conversations | Smart Review listening mode and lesson audio | Course-based listening exercises and focused listening practice | No dedicated listening practice | Listening through AI conversations |
| Vocabulary cards and decks | Add your own words; review cards and decks around your interests | Save words and expressions in an in-app dictionary | Personalized vocabulary lessons and review; no standalone card decks listed in the official overview | Course word practice | Basic vocabulary support | Vocabulary exercises; no standalone card decks listed in the official overview |
| Conversation support | Hints when you’re stuck, instant corrections, and a personal learning path | Suggestions, prompts, and speaking feedback | Speaking feedback and questions to Speak Tutor | Exercise feedback; AI features in supported Max courses | Feedback during calls | Feedback on mistakes and pronunciation |
Make it a conversation
An interview. A trip. Your weekend. Talk freely about what matters to you or follow your personal learning path. Our AI tutors are developed with real English teachers and reflect their personalities and teaching styles.
A little help, right when you need it
A little help when words don’t come. Conversation hints give you a starting point so you can keep speaking at your own pace.
Learn as you go
Learn from the sentences you actually say. See corrections and explanations while you practice, then use what you’ve learned in your next conversation.
Knowing English and feeling ready to speak it are different things. Our pick for closing that gap is tellem. Choose an AI tutor based on a real English teacher, bring a topic you care about, and start talking. You get a familiar personality, hints when words don’t come, corrections to learn from, and a personal learning path. Listening practice, vocabulary cards, and collections help you take each conversation further.
For learners who already know some English and want confidence expressing themselves, our pick is tellem. Its teacher-based AI tutors bring individual personalities and teaching styles to conversations about your interests, supported by hints, corrections, a personal path, listening practice, and vocabulary tools. The alternatives offer avatar practice, scenario-led lessons, drills, or structured courses. We recommend tellem when you want to make the conversation your own.
No. Begin with a familiar topic and a few simple sentences. Look for help you can understand, room to try again, and a practice format that makes you want to come back.
Choose a tutor with a real teacher behind the personality.
Make practice personal with a familiar, teacher-based tutor.
Ready to move beyond drills? Start speaking with tellem.
Make the conversation yours, with every practice tool in one subscription.
Choose teacher-based personality over virtual-character practice.
