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Tips, guides, and insights for English learners.
6 Remote Meeting Phrases That Make You Sound Senior in English
SpeakShark breaks down 6 remote meeting phrase-moves that signal senior English. Practice them in real conversation, not memorized drills.
English Job Interview Practice: 5 Roleplay Scenarios That Land Offers
Master English job interviews with 5 high-stakes roleplay scenarios. SpeakShark's 4 native-accent teachers help you sound senior, confident, and offer-ready.
How I Went From "Hi, How Are You?" to Fluent in 90 Days
A founder's honest 90-day journey from frozen beginner to fluent English speaker, powered by daily SpeakShark sessions, shadowing, and pressure tests.
The Shadowing Method: 15 Minutes a Day to Native-Sound English
SpeakShark's tight 15-min shadowing protocol: 5min listen, 5min sync-shadow, 5min recall-record. Plus the AI conversation layer most learners skip.
Stop Translating in Your Head: 4 Drills That Rewire Thinking
SpeakShark's 4 concrete drills to stop translating in your head and start thinking directly in English. Step-by-step exercises with timing and reps.
Why You Can Read English But Can't Speak It (1 Missing Skill)
SpeakShark explains why you can read English but freeze when speaking. The one missing skill is retrieval speed — and here's how to build it.
Why Most Dictionary Apps Are Stuck in 2010 (And What We Built Instead)
Looking up a word in 2026 still gets you a definition, an IPA, and an audio clip. That's the same thing dictionaries did 15 years ago. We rebuilt the SpeakShark dictionary popup so a single tap surfaces collocations, frequency, adjective patterns, related words and more — because knowing a definition isn't the same as knowing a word.
We Built a Grammar Reference That Shows You WHY Your Sentence Sounded Off
Most grammar apps drill rules in isolation. Our new Grammar Reference inside SpeakShark connects every past mistake from your speaking sessions to the exact rule that explains it — tap a sentence, see the broken pattern, learn the fix.
Why We're Rebuilding Daily Talk Around the 'No Tap' Idea (Work in Progress)
Most AI conversation apps make you tap a microphone every single turn. Real conversations don't work that way. We tried shipping fully hands-free Daily Talk this week, hit a browser-permission edge case, and rolled it back to tap-to-speak while we sort it out. Here's the design we're aiming for, and where it stands today.
We Made Every Sentence in Your Past Mistakes Searchable, Word by Word
Most vocab apps treat a saved sentence as one frozen string. Tap it, get a definition, or nothing. We split every saved sentence into the chunks that are actually worth studying, and let you tap any one of them to look it up — without leaving the card.