Speaking Fluency — Buying Time Strategies
B1 · 5 min Speaking Fluency — Buying Time Strategies Sound natural while your brain catches up From Sourov’s world: Job interviews in French in La…
ReadB1 · 5 min Speaking Fluency — Buying Time Strategies Sound natural while your brain catches up From Sourov’s world: Job interviews in French in La…
ReadC1 · 5 min Academic Word List: Tier 2 Vocabulary Same idea, higher register — the vocabulary that examiners reward From Sourov’s world: During my IELTS…
ReadA2 · 5 min Articles — A, An & The The smallest words in English — but they change everything about what you mean From Sourov’s…
ReadA2/B1 · 5 min Reading Headlines — What Newspapers Don’t Say Crack the compressed code of newspaper language From Sourov’s world: When I moved to La…
ReadB2 · 5 min Idioms of Feeling The strange, beautiful ways English describes emotion From Sourov’s world: When I moved from Sydney to Saint-Pierre in La…
ReadB1 · 5 min Listening for Gist — The First Listen Get the big picture before hunting for details From Sourov’s world: Working at Star Casino…
ReadB2 · 5 min Word Families Learn one root word and unlock an entire family of four From Sourov’s world: When I was preparing for IELTS…
ReadB1 · 5 min The Second Conditional Talk about imaginary situations in the present or future — and what would happen From Sourov’s world: I sometimes…
ReadB1 · 5 min Phrasal Verbs for the Workplace The everyday work verbs that textbooks don’t always teach you From Sourov’s world: Working at Star Casino…
ReadB2 · 5 min Modals of Deduction Use must, can’t and might to say how certain you are — without guessing wildly From Sourov’s world: As…
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.