Keep the Live Hour If Speech Still Needs a Listener

Keep the live hour in blended adult English if a listener still corrects your speech. Leave vocabulary and short grammar drills to the app if you wish. Do not leave the first spoken turn of the week there.

An app can drill words. It cannot hear your turn

Leave vocabulary and short grammar drills to the app if you wish. Do not leave the first spoken turn of the week there.

An app streak can show words reviewed. It cannot show that a listener changed a sentence you later reused. Do not invent an app score as speaking evidence. A percentage on a phone is not a turn.

Keep the live hour if a listener still corrects you

Keep it if last week's live listener changed a sentence you then reused. Trim it if you sat muted. Drop it if you already reuse corrected sentences without a listener.

• Keep if a live listener changed a sentence and you reused that sentence later in the week.
• Trim if you joined the hour but sat muted. The calendar was full. The speaking test failed.
• Drop the live hour only if you already reuse corrected sentences without needing a listener in the room.

A packed calendar is not the speaking test. iWorld Learning's Adult Daily English page runs small live classes of 6-8 learners with speaking time. Confirm live terms. It is not an app and it does not replace a listener with a recording.

Make the app carry homework, not the conversation

Do the app task before class. In the live hour, say the line the app cannot hear. After class, type the corrected line once.

1. Finish the app drill before the live hour. Do not open it during speech.
2. In the live hour, say the line you cannot check on a screen: a request, a refusal, or a short story from your week.
3. After class, type the corrected line once. That is the week's reusable sentence.
4. Do not double the live hours to soothe an app streak.

This is not the mute-equals-miss page

That page counts a muted hour as a miss. Tonight decides whether a live hour still earns a listener inside a blend.

If last week's hour was muted, read the mute page first and count the miss. Then come back here to decide whether the live hour still belongs in the blend. Confirm live Daily English terms if you keep a live hour.

FAQ

A recorded lecture is not a listener.

Does a recorded lecture count as the live hour?

No. A lecture does not correct your sentence. The live hour needs a listener.

Can two apps replace the live hour?

Only if you already reuse corrected sentences without a listener. Otherwise keep one live hour.