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An ear-gym for real English · iOS

They never say want to.” They say “wanna.”

Movies aren’t “too fast”. Your ears were trained on textbook English — and nobody speaks it. Native Ear retrains them in ten minutes a day, with a score that moves.

No signup · 10 questions · real voices · you get a number

TEST YOUR EARS · 3 MIN · FREE · TEST YOUR EARS ·
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Tuesday
Ready, David?
🔥 6-day
62projected +4
Today’s focus
/iː/ vs /ɪ/weak formsclip: interview
▶  Start today’s workout — 10 min
MTWTFSS
Ear Check in 2 days — beat your 58
1 · SOUND GYM2:40 left
/iː/ vs /ɪ/ · Level 3▲ harder
Which one did you hear?
Voice: AU · female · new
ship
/ʃɪp/
sheep
/ʃiːp/
✓ Correct · 2 in a row — leveling up
contrast mastery68%
2 · DECODE LABLesson 3/12
Weak forms
“can” almost disappears
Textbook: I CAN swim
/kæn/ · slow & clear
Real life: I c’n swim
/kən/ · native speed ⚡
Rule: a clear “CAN” usually means CAN’T — natives stress the negative.
NOW DECODE — tap what you heard:
I ____ ____ there tomorrow
can gocan’t gocould’ve gone
3 · REAL WORLDplays left: 2
☕ Coffee shop, NYC
US · conversational · 11s
0.85× ✓1.0× now🔒 Street
TYPE WHAT YOU HEAR — word by word:
Soareyougonnaorderorwhat
missed: “order” — swallowed /d/ → “orduh”
✓ 6/7 words · one clean run to unlock  Street
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HOME · YOUR EARS AS A NUMBER
The gym

One app. Three rooms. Ten minutes.

No mascot, no streak guilt — a score ring, today’s focus, one button. Scroll to walk through the rooms.

Room 01 · Perception

Hear the difference before you can say it.

Ship or sheep? — fired at you by eight different voices, because one polite robot teaches you nothing about real people. Difficulty adapts every two answers: new voices, rarer words, café noise.

tuned to your first language — VN ears get final sounds, JP ears get r/l

Room 02 · Connected speech

Learn why “can” disappears.

Fast English runs on six sound-change rules — linking, elision, weak forms, assimilation, flapping, contraction. Sixty-second lessons, each with a golden rule you’ll never unhear. Then drills until didja stops being noise.

12 lessons · gonna–wanna → weak forms → linking → street mix

Room 03 · Dictation

Type what you actually heard.

Real clips, scored word by word. Start at 0.85×, earn native speed, unlock Street — background noise and all. Every workout ends with the clip that beat you at the start. This time, you hear it.

the green chips feel good — the red ones teach you

Exhibit A — from our actual training set

Don’t take our word for it.
Take your ears.

should have told meshoulda told me” /ˈʃʊdə/ · elision + weak form
going to call hergonna call her” /ˈɡʌnə/ · reduction
did you eat yetdidja eat yet” /ˈdɪdʒə/ · assimilation
what are you doingwhaddaya doing” /ˈwʌdəjə/ · flapping + linking

It isn’t speed. It’s code — and code can be learned.

The receipt

Streak apps count days.
We measure ears.

Your Listening Score is one honest number: how much native-speed English your ears actually catch. It only moves when your ears move — a no-hints Ear Check every Sunday makes it official.

Get your baseline →

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One email at launch with founding-member pricing — and nothing else, ever. iOS 17+ · works offline · no ads · no owl.

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