Short audio drills for the errors that survive years of fluency. Ten minutes a day, on the patterns natives never correct you on — because they understood you anyway.
A sentence plays with one word muted. You fill the silence in your head — then it plays again, revealed. This is for / since, the leak almost every Slavic speaker carries into B2.
You're already fluent. You lead meetings, you're understood, you get by fine. But a few patterns still slip out when you speak — and because people understand you anyway, nobody corrects them. That's why they stay.
You don't have a vocabulary problem. You have a handful of patterns that fossilised years ago and now run on autopilot — "since two years," "discuss about it," "I'm working here since Monday."
We isolate them one at a time and drill them by ear, the way you actually use English: out loud, in the moment, under a little pressure. No grammar lectures — just the sound of getting it right until wrong feels wrong. Built for your phone: screen-off on the commute, lock-screen controls, one earbud at the gym.
The patterns that mark intermediate-but-imperfect speakers: present perfect with for/since, articles, common phrasal verbs. Drill them until you can't get them wrong.
The patterns that hold back fluent speakers: phrasal-verb particles, conditionals, dependent prepositions, register in spoken English. The mid-career polish nobody at work corrects.
Collocation, idiom, subtle register shifts. Where errors stop being grammatical and become a matter of word choice and natural phrasing. For the long-plateau speaker tired of "good enough."
Native apps for iOS and Android — built for dead-time learning: practise while you drive, walk or work out. Screen-off, hands-free, with lock-screen controls — then review at your desk.
The mistakes aren't going away on their own — every conversation reinforces them, every drill wears them down. The sooner you start, the sooner the right form just sounds normal.
They can tell you the rule. NearlyNative drills the pattern into your mouth — by ear, out loud, under a little time pressure — until the right form is automatic. Knowing the rule and saying it without thinking are two different skills; this trains the second one.
About ten minutes a day. For this kind of pattern work, short and frequent beats long and occasional — a few focused reps most days, until wrong starts to sound wrong.
Yes — built for speaking and listening, screen-off. No reading drills, no typing, no streak to babysit. Practise while you drive, walk or work out.