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Do you practice conversation with your mobile ?

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Tip on how to practice your speaking and conversation using your smart phone - Speaking Pal App It offers a variety of topics, such as interview, checking in on a hotel, trying to find a cab, among others. The great feature for a basic learner is the grading sequence of the exercises. First you listen to the model conversation and observe features such as intonation, pronunciation and even body language. Next you have the chance to interact with the avatar.  Most of the act out dialogues offer two possibilities of answers to choose from.  As you speak the App records your voice and give you a color-coded feedback. Green meaning great, red meaning in need of improvement. At the end there's a line by line feedback and the opportunity to listen to your recorded pronunciation and the model pronunciation from the native speaker of that particular scene.  In my point of view it's great to complement what you learn in your regular English course. You can try out the situati