Pronunciation · Free check
Find your weak English sounds in 60 seconds
In short
Four questions and three listening items produce a plan built on two things that genuinely predict pronunciation difficulty: the contrasts your first language does not make, and whether you can actually HEAR the contrasts English depends on. No recording, no signup, nothing stored.
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What is your first language?
It predicts your English pronunciation challenges with real accuracy — the same sounds trip up the same language backgrounds.
What this actually measures
Most online pronunciation tests either guess from a self-report or score your accent against a native model. Neither is useful, so this does something different.
- Your first language. Pronunciation errors are not random: they come from the contrasts your language does and does not make. A Spanish speaker and a Japanese speaker struggle with genuinely different parts of English, and the research on this is old and solid. Sixteen first-language profiles feed the plan.
- Whether you can hear the contrast. The listening items are real perception tests using high-functional-load minimal pairs. Perception predicts production: if two words sound identical to you, you cannot check your own attempt, and practice reinforces the error.
- What it does not do. It does not score your accent, and it never will. IELTS accepts every standard accent and scores whether you are understood. So do we.
Frequently asked questions
How long does the pronunciation check take?
About a minute. Four short questions plus three listening items. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is stored — the plan is built in your browser from the contrastive profiles in our knowledge base.
How can a quiz know my pronunciation without hearing me?
Your first language predicts your English pronunciation challenges with real accuracy, because the errors come from which contrasts your language does and does not make. That gives a strong starting point. The listening check then measures something directly: whether you can hear the contrasts, which predicts whether you can produce them reliably.
Why does the listening check matter more than the self-report questions?
Because perception comes before production. If you cannot hear the difference between two sounds, you cannot tell whether your own attempt was right, so unguided speaking practice reinforces the error. Ear training is also free to run and transfers to speaking, which is why it is the first recommendation when you miss an item.
Do I need to lose my accent?
No. Accent and intelligibility are different things, and heavily accented speech is often perfectly clear. IELTS accepts every standard accent and scores intelligibility; the band descriptors mention L1 accent only through its effect on being understood. Every plan here targets clarity, never accent reduction.