Question 1

How to use the RealLife English App

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Learning English is about building real-life fluency that empowers you to communicate naturally and confidently. That’s exactly why we created this app: to be your perfect companion on the journey to mastering English in a practical and enjoyable way.

| To help you succeed, we’ve designed an easy-to-follow method that ensures you not only learn but also retain and apply what you've studied. The secret? A powerful three-step approach:

Step 1: Learn with Engaging Lessons

Our app provides a wide variety of lessons designed to teach you the English you actually need in everyday situations. You’ll develop strong listening abilities to help you understand native speakers with ease.

Step 2: Practice with Vocabulary Flashcards

Our innovative vocabulary flashcards will help you learn words and expressions naturally, ensuring that not only will you understand fast-speaking natives, but you will also always have the right words at the right time.

Step 3: Speak with Confidence

Real-life spoken fluency comes from practice. That’s why our Global Speak feature connects you with language learners worldwide, giving you the opportunity to use what you’ve learned in real conversations while gaining confidence along the way.

Watch Ethan’s introduction to the app on this link:

Take Your Learning Further

For a deeper understanding of our unique RealLife Way Methodology, we invite you to explore our FREE Mini-Course, av

Question 2

What is the Global Passport?

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Currently the Global Passport really is no more than your profile, but we intend to evolve it in many ways to really honor the metaphor of "English being your Global Passport". For example, the passport will show how many countries you've been connected to, which represents your journey around the world and on the way to becoming a Global Citizen - the more countries you visit virtually, the more badges you'll have!

Question 3

I want to practice speaking and listening skills

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It might sound obvious, but really the only way to get better at speaking is… by speaking!

| We have been told this same problem so many times that we decided to develop our own mobile app to connect learners from all around the world, and help them practice speaking together. You can find our RealLife English app here.

Understanding native speakers can be difficult because we are not given many opportunities when we learn the language in school. We have some resources to help you improve your speaking and listening, and have FUN while doing it!

||| YouTube lessons:

How To Improve Your Listening Skills
PRACTICE Your Listening Skills in ENGLISH for IELTS

||| Podcast lesson:

The Power of Practicing with Non-Natives

||| Practice Your Speaking:

||| Test your Listening:

Can You Understand 100% of This Conversation?

And some older articles if you want to expand your learning:

How to Improve Your Speaking in English
[How to Spe

Question 4

Are there Native Speakers on the App?

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While you can enjoy pre-recorded podcast lessons from our native coaches under the Podcast tab, and our coaches might jump on the app every once in a while, the purpose of the Global Speak portion of the app is to connect English speaking learners from around the world (other non-natives), which we strongly believe is an effective strategy to gain fluency.

If you're in doubt about the benefit of speaking with non-natives, we highly recommend you listen to this podcast Is it Possible to Speak Good English if I Practice with Non-Natives? with advice from some of the world's top teachers about the topic. We recorded another podcast with Rachel from Rachel's English here (one of the world's authority's on pronunciation). In that podcast, she says:

| "If you had somebody who is not a native speaker that you felt comfortable with, that you were going to be able to practice speaking English with, absolutely jump on that opportunity… 'cause really it's just about forming those habits and that brain-body connection, and that can only be done by actually doing it, speaking it, spontaneous conversation."

Anyway, we encourage you to keep an open mind and listen to one or both of those podcasts, but if you're only interested in talking with natives, the speaking feature on our app is probably not a great fit for you. There are lots of apps that offer teachers you c

Question 5

How to download the podcasts

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The app currently does not provide a "download/ listen offline" feature, but here are a few strategies to listen to our podcast offline (for example, while you're walking your dog, cooking, running, etc 😉)

| You can find us on any Podcast App by searching "RealLife English." If you don't have a Podcast App already, try out the following options:

Android: Google Podcasts is a good one (find/ subscribe to the RealLife English Podcast on Google Podcasts)

iPhone: iPhones usually have a Podcast App that comes with the phone. (find/ subscribe to the RealLife English Podcast on Apple Podcasts)

Spotify is another common place to listen to our podcast, but keep in mind that to download the Podcast, you must be a Spotify Premium user (Find/ Subscribe to the RealLIfe English Podcast on Spotify

You can also listen on our website. The benefit of our website is that you can download all past episodes.

On the above podcasts apps, you can only listen to the last 100 or so, but on our website, you have access to all of them (hundreds of them)!
For the episodes that are available on these apps, however, the offline listening experience is m

Question 6

How to change your photo on the Reallife app

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Adding a profile picture is a great way to personalize your account and make it easier for others to recognize you. Follow these simple steps to upload yours:

Tap the menu (☰) in the top left corner.
Select Profile.
Tap "My Global Passport".
Tap the camera icon to upload a picture—either take a new one with your camera or choose one from your gallery.

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