Practice Fluent English

Say it the way it is said.

CopyCat is shadowing practice for spoken English. Listen to a sentence, say it back, and see your voice next to the original: where the stress falls, and how the voice rises and falls.

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A sentence being practised in CopyCat: the original voice above, the learner's voice below, with the stressed words in bold.

What a sentence looks like in CopyCat

Here in Washington DC the weather changes often.

Bold is where the stress falls.
Grey words are said lightly.
The line over the sound shows the voice going up and down.

Listen, say it back, compare

One sentence at a time. Nothing to read about and nothing to set up: press the button and the lesson leads.

CopyCat playing a sentence, with its sound and each word under it.
1

Listen

The sentence plays while its words move past, each one sized by how strongly it is said.

CopyCat recording the learner saying part of a sentence.
2

Say it back

Say the sentence after it. CopyCat records your voice and checks the words it hears.

Two sound pictures one above the other: the original and the learner's own voice.
3

Compare

Your voice is played next to the original and drawn under it, so the difference can be heard and seen.

When a sentence is hard

CopyCat breaks it into smaller parts, then into the words that went wrong, and builds it back up to the whole sentence. A blue line under the words shows the part to say now.

Stories at three levels

Short stories and talks, a few minutes each. Many are from VOA Learning English, a service of the Voice of America.

Beginning Level
5 lessons · 11 min
Intermediate Level
7 lessons · 26 min
Advanced Level
7 lessons · 48 min
The Advanced Level in CopyCat, with The Gift of the Magi and The Ransom of Red Chief in parts.
My Lessons

Make a lesson of what you need to say

The stories are a start. The sentences that matter most are your own, and CopyCat turns them into a lesson of up to 10 minutes.

A new lesson made from the opening sentences of a talk, ready to listen to.

From text

Paste the words and an AI voice says them: a woman or a man, natural or a little slower. Then practise them like any other lesson.

A job interview

Write the answer to “Tell me about yourself” and say it until it comes out without thinking.

A talk or a presentation

Paste the speech. Hear where the stress goes in every sentence before standing up to give it.

The sentences of your work

How you open a meeting, introduce yourself on a call, or explain what your company does.

Just for fun

A poem, a toast for a friend's wedding, a bedtime story to read to a child.

From a recording

A voice memo, a sound file or a video. CopyCat writes down what it hears, or uses the words you paste, and the voice to copy is the one in the recording.

A friend who speaks English well

Ask for a minute of voice memo about anything at all, and learn to sound like someone you know.

A teacher or a colleague

Have them read your talk or your interview answers aloud, then practise against their voice.

A speaker you like

A short clip you have saved of a talk or an interview, for your own practice.

The accent you want

British, American, Australian: record someone who has it and copy how they say things.

My Lessons in CopyCat, with a lesson made from a voice memo.

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Lessons marked Free can be practised straight away. Unlock another once and it is yours to keep: practise it as often as you like, until you can say every sentence.

1 lesson

$3.99
The lesson you are looking at.

5 lessons

$14.99
$3.00 each · this one and 4 more of your choice.

10 lessons

$24.99
$2.50 each · this one and 9 more of your choice.

A pack also covers lessons you make. Making one is free; keeping it uses 1 lesson from a pack. Packs are bought in the app. Prices are in US dollars; the App Store shows the price for your country.

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CopyCat does not ask who you are. Progress and the lessons you make stay on the device.

To make a lesson, the text or the recording is sent to CopyCat's server and to OpenAI. CopyCat does not keep it.

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