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English for your life

Not your typical English course.

Practise, out loud, the English you actually need: the questions you get at work, in everyday life, and living in a city like New York or London. An AI with a real accent asks them, then shows you how to answer better. Built for Spanish speakers.

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Live in another city for a while

Like a graphic adventure: pick a city, tap a place on the map and talk to whoever you meet. The diner waitress, the cab driver, the landlord, the monk at the temple. Every place has five visits and every visit is a different conversation.

  • New York

    For example: the diner, the Harlem courts, the subway, your landlord in Astoria.

  • San Francisco

    For example: a Mission taqueria, the cable car, a tech meetup, the ferry to Alcatraz.

  • London

    For example: the pub, the Tube, Borough Market, the NHS doctor.

  • Bangkok

    For example: a pad thai stall, the temple, a tuk-tuk, your condo in Sukhumvit.

And if you don't know where to go, a button takes you somewhere at random.

What do you do?

A lawyer and a hotel receptionist don't need the same English. Pick yours and see which conversations you will practise. And if yours isn't there, even better: you describe it.

And if your job is one of a kind, even better

The sector is just a shortcut. Paste your company website or describe what you do, and the whole course is built from it: your products, your clients and your situations. No textbook small talk.

  • Your company websiteOne or several. The AI reads them and works out what you do.
  • Your own descriptionWhat you do and what you talk about in English, in your own words.
  • A sector14 ready-made ones, to start in one tap.

Plus everyday English (breaking the ice, phone calls, plans, travel, opinions and things going wrong) and the cities, which are for everyone: you don't need to say what you do to get started.

You do know English. It's just that people say it like this.

In class, people speak slowly and pronounce every letter. In a meeting, on a call or at a hotel front desk, they don't. Here you train your ear on questions spoken at real speed, with no text in front of you, until you catch them first time.

Tap a question to see what it said.

Four accents, because the world doesn't speak like the textbook

Characters speak with a British, American, Australian or Indian accent, depending on the place and on your level. You start with the two clearest ones and, once you catch them, the others arrive.

  • From level 1

    British

    Could you pop that over in an email?
  • From level 1

    American

    Whaddaya do for a living?
  • From level 4

    Australian

    How ya going? Reckon we can sort it today?
  • From level 4

    Indian

    Kindly tell me, what is the timeline for this?

How it works

Three steps and ten minutes a day, every day. In a few weeks you notice.

  1. Pick where you are

    A situation from your job, one from everyday life, or a place on a city map. Every scene comes with its own illustration and character.

  2. Talk out loud

    A character with a real accent asks and you answer. Warm up first by catching their questions by ear if you like, or dive straight in.

  3. Review and come back

    What you did well, a better way to say it, pronunciation with audio and your new phrases, which come back another day.

Ten minutes a day. Every day.

That's the Yestucan rule, and the one research backs: many short sessions beat one long one. A visit takes four minutes; with a warm-up, eight; with your phrases of the day, ten. And the streak has a weekly wildcard, because life happens.

  • 317 experiments

    The largest meta-analysis of spaced practice: spreading study across separate sessions is remembered far better than cramming it, and the effect is usually large.

    Cepeda et al., 2006

  • Short and daily wins

    In English classes, short daily sessions produced better short- and long-term results than one long session a week.

    Stoltzfus & Sukseemuang, 2018

  • Speaking a day apart

    Practising out loud in sessions one day apart reduced pauses when speaking: fluency grows with frequent practice.

    Kakitani & Kormos, 2024

Sources: Cepeda, Pashler, Vul, Wixted y Rohrer (2006). Distributed practice in verbal recall tasks: a review and quantitative synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 132, 354-380. · Stoltzfus y Sukseemuang (2018). Distributed practice in EFL grammar learning. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 15(2), 322-337. · Kakitani y Kormos (2024). The effects of distributed practice on second language fluency development. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 46(3), 770-794.

What brings you back tomorrow

  • Four cities

    New York, London, San Francisco and Bangkok, twelve places each. With an illustration of every scene to put you right there.

  • Four accents

    British, American, Australian and Indian. The world doesn't speak like the textbook.

  • Seven levels

    From almost zero (A1) to professional. A two-minute chat places you, and you move up after nailing four missions out of five.

  • A streak with a wildcard

    One day off a week without losing your streak. Daily practice shouldn't feel like a punishment.

  • Your phrases come back

    Each mission leaves you new phrases, and they return just when you are about to forget them.

  • Final boss

    Every unit ends with a longer conversation: no warm-up and no hints.

  • At your own pace

    You decide when you start and stop speaking. Nobody cuts you off mid-sentence.

  • Straight to talking

    No warm-up wanted? Jump into the voice conversation without the listening and phrase steps.

Frequently asked questions

How is it different from a regular English course?

There is no shared syllabus. The situations, the questions and the vocabulary come from your own job and your own life, and you practise them by speaking, not by filling in gaps.

What will I talk about?

Your work and your life. There are three tracks: 'My job' (pick one of 14 ready-made sectors, paste your company website or describe it in your own words), 'Everyday life' (calls, travel, plans, opinions, problems) and 'Cities': you live for a while in New York, London, San Francisco or Bangkok and go to places like the diner, the pub, the subway or the temple, talking to whoever you meet.

What if I don't want work English?

That's fine. Everyday life and the cities are for everyone and don't depend on your profession. You can skip the work track if it's not for you.

Who is Yestucan for?

Spanish speakers who freeze when they hear real English or have to answer, whatever their level: the first two levels start almost from zero, with yes/no questions, options to choose from and the text on screen. The app explains things in Spanish; the conversations are in English.

How much time do I need a day?

Ten minutes, every day: a visit takes four minutes, eight with a warm-up, and your phrases of the day take two more. Research on spaced practice says many short sessions beat one long one. Conversation time is capped at fifteen minutes a day.

How does it correct me?

After each conversation you get a review: what you did well, a better way to say what you said, and which words to pronounce differently. It listens to your voice rather than just reading the transcript.

What if I don't understand the character?

Ask them to repeat or to slow down, as often as you like. You can also see the text or get a hint, at the cost of one star.

Do I need to install anything?

No. It runs in the browser and only needs permission to use the microphone.

What happens to my voice?

It is sent to Google's servers to run the conversation and prepare the review. Yestucan does not store the audio; it stores the transcript, which is what you see in your review.

How do I get access?

For now you need an invitation code.

Yes, tú can.

Next time someone asks you something in English, have the answer ready.

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