One word muted — fill the silence, then hear it revealed · for / since
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.
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 locked in 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 quietly mark you as "still learning": for/since, a/an/the, everyday phrasal verbs. Drill them until you can't get them wrong.
The slips that survive fluency: the right preposition, the natural phrasal verb, sounding formal or casual on cue. The mid-career polish nobody at work corrects.
Not mistakes any more — just word choices that give you away. The pairings and phrasing natives reach for without thinking. For when you're 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.