English at the Doctor’s — What to Say When You’re Ill 🏥
🎯 A2–B1 ⏱️ 5 min 💬 When language fails at the worst moment: My first year in Australia, I hurt my back. I sat in a…
Read🎯 A2–B1 ⏱️ 5 min 💬 When language fails at the worst moment: My first year in Australia, I hurt my back. I sat in a…
Read🎯 A1 — Kids & Beginners ⏱️ 5 min 🔢 Hello! Numbers are the first things you need in any language. Age, price, time, phone numbers…
Read🎯 A1 — Kids & Beginners ⏱️ 5 min 🌈 Hello, young learners and beginners! Colours are everywhere. Your pencils, your clothes, the sky, your food.…
Read🎯 B1–B2 ⏱️ 5 min 💬 The idiom that got me the tip: A regular at the bar I worked at in Sydney once said: “You…
Read🎯 B1–B2 ⏱️ 5 min 💬 Why native speakers sound fast: When I arrived in Sydney, Australians didn’t sound like my English teacher. They sounded like…
Read🎯 B1 ⏱️ 5 min 💬 The sound hiding in every sentence: When I was preparing for my French C1 exam, my teacher told me: “Your…
Read🎯 A2–B1 ⏱️ 5 min 💬 The word that confused everyone: A student asked for the menu at a restaurant — but said “DESsert” for “desSERT”…
Read🎯 B2 ⏱️ 5 min 💬 The email that cost me a meeting: Early in my career I wrote an email starting “Hey, just wanted to…
Read🎯 B1–B2 ⏱️ 5 min 💬 The chain of ideas: When I first wrote essays in French, my teacher said: “Les idées sont là, mais elles…
Read🎯 B1–B2 ⏱️ 5 min 💬 The essay mistake I made at 30: Writing four connected sentences is not a paragraph. A paragraph has a job.…
ReadMost of this site is reading. These two are writing — the only way to find out what your English actually does, and what your inner weather is actually like. Take one now, or skip and find them in the menu at any time.
A twenty-question encounter with how you actually think in English.
This is not a multiple-choice test. There are no gap-fills and no word banks. Those instruments measure recognition. This one measures production — the unruly, idiosyncratic act of putting thought into English under gentle pressure.
You will be asked about your dreams, your reading, your silences, your weather. Some prompts feel like journal entries. Some feel like riddles. Answer them as yourself — only as yourself.
Thirteen sideways questions about the architecture of your own experience.
“How are you?” produces “fine.” “What is wrong?” produces defence. So this asks neither. It asks about texture, temperature, containers, landscapes at 3 AM — sideways entry points that let you describe an inner state without having to expose a biography.
There is no timer and no right answer. The only thing measured is granularity: how finely you can name what is happening inside you. That skill is learnable, and it travels with you.