Speaking Everyday English
Like Duolingo, but for Speaking Everyday English. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
A short one: 11 levels across 2 sections, about 22 minutes end to end, roughly 4 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Making Yourself Understood and Building Natural Sentences. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Speaking Everyday English
- Time-of-day greetings signal shared awareness of the moment and feel warmer than rigid formal introductions
- 'Good morning' applies before midday, 'Good afternoon' covers midday to late daylight, and 'Good evening' begins around dusk/dinner
- 'Good night' is only used as a parting farewell, never an arrival greeting
- 'How are you?' is a ritual greeting in English, not an invitation for a detailed personal report
- Natural responses keep it brief, light, and bounced back, such as 'Good, thanks! How about you?'
- Listing ailments or heavy personal problems derails a casual passing greeting
- Pairing a name with one concrete fact (neighborhood, role, or hobby) gives the listener an immediate hook for follow-up questions
- Saying only 'I am [Name]' leaves the conversational burden entirely on the other person
- Overloading an intro with a full resume makes casual back-and-forth awkward
- English exit phrases like 'Have a good one' or 'It was great catching up' are meant to gracefully wrap up an interaction while energy is still positive
- Waiting for an awkward lull or total silence makes exiting feel abrupt and uncomfortable
- 'Have a good one' serves as a polite, versatile catch-all farewell for daytime interactions
- 'Could I please have...' strikes the ideal balance between everyday politeness and natural speech
- Direct commands like 'Give me...' sound harsh or rude to English service workers
- Stiff formulas like 'I demand...' or archaic phrasing sound unnatural in everyday transactions
- Front-loaded question words signal the required detail before the rest of the sentence is spoken
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Speaking Everyday English the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
You walk into an office meeting at 2:00 PM. What is the most natural greeting?
Get it right to open this lesson and 10 more in the app.
Where Speaking Everyday English takes you
Start holding real conversations in English without getting trapped in grammar drills. Learn the essential sentence shapes, polite requests, and small talk moves to express yourself with confidence.
- 1
Making Yourself Understood
- Starting and Ending Everyday Interactions
- Asking for Information and Getting What You Need
- 2
Building Natural Sentences
- Assembling Clear Thoughts with Core Word Order
- Keeping Small Talk Alive
2 sections · 4 units · 11 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Speaking Everyday English is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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