A free alternative to Free4Talk, built to keep your practice going

Ask around and the list is short. It has to be free and open in a browser. There have to be people in it. It should be easy to find a room at your level instead of landing in a conversation you cannot follow. It should be calm enough to speak badly in without someone spoiling it. And the good conversations should lead somewhere.

That last one is where most drop-in sites stop. You have a great hour with three strangers, the room closes, and next week you start again from zero. TalkYouApp is built around fixing exactly that.

Everything in this table is part of the free account. Plus, at $5.99 a month, adds Studio voice, premium room looks and two streak shields.

A room closes shortly after the last person leaves; that part is the same everywhere. What changes here is what happens next. Follow the two people you enjoyed talking with and they are a message away. Put your regulars in a language group and the conversation continues in text between calls. When the group wants to speak, a meetup opens a members-only voice room now, whenever people are free, or at a time everyone sees in their own time zone.

This is how a week of practice starts to look like a habit instead of a lottery: the same faces, a time you both know, and a streak that quietly reminds you.

Every room has an owner, and owners can appoint co-owners and room moderators. They can mute someone, stop them typing in the chat, turn off their camera or remove them, without waiting for anyone. Reports about people, rooms and messages reach TalkYouApp moderators, who can warn, mute, temporarily ban or permanently ban an account, with the reason recorded.

Because nobody joins as a guest, those decisions mean something: a ban is a ban, not a refreshed page. Rooms can also be limited to women or to men, the check runs before anyone enters, and nothing said in a room is ever recorded. The minimum age is 13.

Make a free account, set your level and open a room with a topic that gives people an easy first question. Then bring the people you already practice with: your room keeps one share link for as long as it is open, and a language group gives your regulars a home and a meetup time.

One honest note about timing. English rooms here are liveliest late in the evening across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. If you arrive at a quiet hour, open a room with a clear title so people can find it in the lobby, or schedule a meetup so everyone knows when to come back.