3 hosts live in English right now
Use the language
where it happens.
Ten minutes with someone who lives there — at the market, on the ferry, in the café around the corner.
Verified hosts · leave any session with one tap · no audience, ever
Pick up where you left off
How a session works
Your first conversation is free, and you start with 30 minutes. You can leave any session with one tap — no explanation needed.
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1Pick a place
See the situation first, so you already have something concrete to ask about.
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2Talk for ten minutes
A real person responds, changes direction and gives the moment its own rhythm.
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3Keep what helped
Useful corrections and phrases stay with the place where you learned them.
The part software cannot replace
Another person changes the conversation.
You are not completing a lesson path. Someone hears what you meant, answers from their own life and gives you something new to respond to.
One learner · one person
Local context
A live reply
MA
Marta · MadridSpanish ↔ English
ExampleYou
I am living in Bursa since three years.
Small correctionI am living in Bursa since three years.I've been living in Bursa for three years.
Marta
Perfect. What do you like most about living there?
The correction can go straight to your Passport.
Your Passport
Conversations turn into a map of what you can actually do.
Not points for tapping through exercises — places, situations, phrases and corrections from conversations you really had.
This week · B1
Complain politely in a shop
Postcards from today
5 sessions · 1 starting soon
Live now
Host
Share ten minutes of
somewhere you already are.
A café, a walk, a market. You don't need to teach; the session gives the learner a clear focus and keeps the exchange short.
People
Available for English practice.
Book a time, keep a weekly partner, or say hello after your first session together.
Your weekly partners
Coming up
London · live
Saturday market
Hosted by Emily
HBYouCamera off
Passport
Words from your conversations.
Phrases, vocabulary and corrections stay attached to the session where you learned them.
This week · Phrase
I'm afraid there's a problem with this.
Opens a complaint gently — you're describing, not accusing.
From Emily's postcardBorough Market · today
“I'm afraid there's a problem with this kettle.”
This week · Phrase
Would it be possible to exchange it?
A request, not a demand. Works in shops, hotels, on the phone.
This week's situationComplain politely in a shop
“Would it be possible to exchange it for another one?”
This week · Phrase
I'd like to return this, please.
Clear and polite. “Please” carries a lot here.
This week's situationComplain politely in a shop
“Hi — I'd like to return this, please. It doesn't close.”
Phrase
What would you recommend?
A natural way to ask for someone's choice or suggestion.
From your London market sessionEmily · 18 Sep
“What would you recommend if I wanted something local?”
Correction
I went too late.
I go too late. → past simple correction.
From a chat correctionEmily · Today
“I arrived too late” may sound more natural here.
Word
overlooked
Often missed, ignored or not noticed.
From a live sessionLondon · Market
“Tourists often overlook this little stall.”
Passport
Your practice, by place and situation.
A record of sessions, useful phrases and the situations you've already handled.
English
B1Hüseyin's Passport
7situations lived
4cities
3h 18mconversation time
5weeks in a row
Issued by elsewards · Spoken elsewhere.
Session notes
Recent
18Sep
London · Market
“I finally used ‘what would you recommend?’ without thinking.”
12m 42s · Emily · 3 corrections · 4 saved phrases
14Sep
Manchester · Street
Asked for directions and understood the answer first time.
9m 18s · David · 2 corrections · 2 saved phrases
09Sep
Edinburgh · Café
Learned why “you alright?” doesn't always mean something is wrong.
14m 05s · Sarah · 1 cultural note
Minutes
Time given, time available.
Earn minutes by hosting useful sessions. Use them when you want practice in another language.
Available
84 min
Enough for about four 20-minute sessions.
1.5×
Higher demand
Turkish is short of hosts tonight.
A 15-minute Turkish session earns 23 minutes. Learners spend the same rate — no minute is printed.
Invite a friend
Twenty minutes each.
When a friend you invite finishes their first real session, you both get 20 minutes.
How minutes are counted
Rates follow demand, so every language keeps moving.
| Situation | You spend | A host earns |
|---|---|---|
| Most sessions | 1 min per min | 1 min per min |
| English, 18:00–22:00 local | 1.3 min per min | 1.3 min per min |
| A language short of hosts tonight (Turkish now) | 1.5 min per min | 1.5 min per min |
A learner spends exactly what the host earns — minutes are never printed out of thin air. Rates are shown before you join and never change mid-session.
Keeping it fair
- Minutes count only when both of you confirm the session happened.
- A session has to last at least 5 minutes to count.
- The same two people earn from at most 2 sessions a day.
- Cancel for free up to 2 hours before. After that, and for no-shows, it counts against attendance.
- If someone doesn't come within 5 minutes, tap “They didn't come”: a learner gets every minute back, a host earns half the session for waiting.
- Two no-shows in 30 days pause booking for 7 days.
- Unusual patterns are paused and reviewed by a person, not an algorithm alone.
- Minutes don't expire for 12 months.
Activity
Recent minutes
Istanbul ferry sessionYou helped Anna practice Turkish · Yesterday
+18 minLondon market sessionYou practiced English with Emily · Yesterday
−13 minTurkish coffee chatYou helped David practice Turkish · Sep 16
+20 minSafety
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Privacy and control.
Verification, reporting, blocking and one-tap exit are available to every member.
One-tap exit
Leave any live session immediately. No explanation required.
How it works
Leave ends the session for you straight away. The host is told it ended, never why.
Member verification
Risk-based phone, liveness and identity checks without exposing private documents to other people.
Verification details
Hosts pass a phone check and a short liveness check. Other members only ever see the “Verified” mark.
Block & report
Available from every profile, chat and live experience. Safety actions are always free.
Blocked people
You haven’t blocked anyone. Blocked people can’t see you live, message you or join your sessions.
18+ at launch
The initial product is limited to adults while the live-session safety model is established.
Community rules
Be kind, keep it about the language and the place, and never film people who didn’t agree to it.
Privacy controls
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Membership
Talking stays free. Plus remembers it for you.
Every conversation, the whole minutes exchange and every safety feature are free. Plus adds a memory of what you said, more say over who and when, and a place at the front when it's busy.
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Everything you need to practise every week.
- Unlimited sessions with the minutes you earn
- Postcards — 3 answers a day
- 1 weekly partner
- Book up to 2 days ahead
- Messages with corrections
- 3 corrections saved from each session
- Every safety feature, always
€9.99/month
Or €69 a year — about €5.75 a month.
Memory
- Every correction your host notes — recorded or not
- Full transcript of every recorded session
- Pronunciation notes on your own sentences
- A monthly speaking report, with examples
Control
- Up to 5 weekly partners
- Book up to 14 days ahead
- Accent, region and topic filters
- Unlimited postcard answers
Priority
No card for the trial. We remind you 2 days before it ends. Cancel in two clicks.
- First in line when your language is busy
- 10% off minute packs
Safety is never a paid feature — women-only matching, blocking, reporting and one-tap exit are free for everyone.
Minute packs · with Community Hosts
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Buy minutes and talk with verified Community Hosts who have chosen to be paid for their time. Plus members pay 10% less.
For a goal with a date
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A conversation somewhere else, as a present.
They get a link and choose when to start. Nothing renews.
Before you decide
Why aren't the conversations themselves paid?
Because the people make this work. Hosting earns you minutes, minutes buy you conversations. Paying for that would break the fairness it runs on.
What happens to my notes if I go back to Free?
Everything already saved stays yours. New sessions go back to keeping 3 corrections each.
Is my recording used for anything else?
No. It makes your notes and is deleted after the time you chose (30 days by default). It is never used to train anything and never shared.
Can I cancel any time?
Yes, from Account, in two clicks. You keep Plus until the end of the period you paid for.
Is the price the same everywhere?
Plus isn't: it follows local purchasing power, and you see it in your own currency. Minute packs cost about the same everywhere, because they pay a person for an hour of their time.
Where does the money from minute packs go?
Most of it to the Community Host, paid monthly for every hour you talk with them. The rest covers VAT, payment fees, video and the safety team.
HB
Hüseyin
VerifiedBursa · Türkiye
TechnologyHistoryTravelBusiness
Voice intro
Fifteen seconds in your own voice — people hear it before they book you.
Languages
Conversation reputation
26sessions
96%attendance
9h 42mhelping others
18repeat talks
People say
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Postcards
Thirty seconds from somewhere else.
Hosts record a moment where they are and ask one question. Answer with your voice — they'll leave you a note.
Host mode
Trusted host
Share a few minutes of your day.
You don't need to teach. We give you this week's situation and three questions — you just talk like yourself.
Have a few minutes?
Outside: point the camera at places, not people. Sessions start voice-only; turn video on only where nobody else is in frame.
Verified
Ask for a recommendation
Let them finish their sentence. One correction at the end is worth more than five in the middle. Tap “Note” when you correct someone — it lands in their notes even when nothing is recorded.
46 min this week
212 min this month · spend them on English whenever you like.
Trusted host
Record one where you are
30–60 seconds, one question at the end. Learners answer by voice; reviewing 5 answers earns you 2 minutes (up to 10 a week).
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Settings
Everything here can be changed at any time. Nothing is hidden behind a phone call.
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Free
Talking, postcards and every safety feature — free.
At most one a day, unless you ask for more
Quiet between 22:00 and 08:00
When someone I've favourited goes live
Replies to my postcards
One email on Sunday: your week, and what's next
This week's situation (Mondays)
Who you meet
Match me only with women
Only with both of you agreeing
Ask to record by default
Take it with you, or take it away
A copy of your profile, partners, bookings, postcard answers and reports, as a file.
Help
How can we help?
Short answers first. A person replies to every message within a day.
Nothing matches that yet. Write to us below — we read everything.
Brand & press
The name is the logo.
The “w” in elsewards is one continuous wave with a dot above it — the letter, the sea, and someone raising their arms. The joy of talking to someone, somewhere else.
About
elsewards in one paragraph
elsewards is a language exchange for people who learn by talking. Members spend ten minutes with someone who lives where the language is spoken — at a market, on a ferry, in a café — and host a conversation in their own language in return. Minutes are earned by hosting and spent by practising; talking and safety are always free. elsewards launches worldwide in 2026 with English and Spanish open at every hour, ten more languages in early access, and prices set for local purchasing power.
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Legal
Terms
Plain-language drafts for the prototype. They will be reviewed by a lawyer before launch.
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